Question

permiter in a mental math​

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Waiting for a plane in Alice Springs and reflecting on the week at Ernabella in the APY Lands. First, congratulations to the teachers who work really hard to cater for the complexities of working with communities in remote places.

Victoria Cant and l were looking at the progress that her students had made with an introduction to perimeter and were wondering how to begin to connect perimeter and area. We began to play around with a possible mental routine. We knew we wanted to keep the numbers small and the thinking hard.

Small numbers, initially, means that everyone can buy in and that we can increase the complexity of the adaptive reasoning required. Here is the outcome of our thinking.