Inspirational Week of Maths

This week we have been doing lessons from the Inspirational Week of Maths on youcubed.org.  The key concepts we have been learning during the activities are:

• Having a growth mindset for mathematics is important. We can all learn math to any level we choose. Self belief is really important.  
• Math learning is best when we have opportunities to make connections between pictures and numbers. It is good to draw and to try to understand mathematics visually.  
• Math should never be associated with speed. Students should always pause for refection and take time to make sense of the math they are learning.

Here is a photo of the activity from Lesson 1 called Four 4s. Using only four 4s we had to write as many statements as we could which equalled the numbers 1-20.