Maths Communities

Maths Communities

Room 25 and Room 26 are now into our fifth week of Maths Communities. The first thing we needed to establish was that as a community, who are we for each other? What are the expectations of our community? So we displayed our expectations on the wall and set about learning what this might look like in our Maths Community.

We have been inquiring into what good mathematicians do.

Through our inquiry we have learned how to share our strategies, understand other strategies and use different strategies. This has been achieved by asking good maths questions, actively listening and participating in "friendly argue". By sharing our strategies we explain and justify our thinking. 

" We are connected as learners because we learn from one another."

 "I now know how to ask someone to explain how their strategy worked."

Organisation
The groups meet twice a week. The approach during these 1 hour sessions is to use the nature of inquiry. Word problems are designed to encourage students to use a variety of mathematical strategies. They have opportunities for individual, pair and group time to develop and share their strategies. These sessions are working really well now that we all know the routine and expectations around them.

Shared thoughts from the 25/26 maths communities

"I love maths."

"It's fun, it's different and we get to solve a problem and then to share it."

"I Like doing the problems because they are fun and I like working in small groups."

"You get hard problems and I like hard problems. It makes me go home and ask my dad for other ways."

"Fun you get to work with people from other classes."

"Maths communities are fun. You learn new strategies from other people and share it!"