In today's session we create a 1000-block using multi-link or unifix cubes. We do this by building it from sticks with 10 cubes. Show the class a box of a multilink cubes.
Adaptation for NESB students: Discuss making a block, a much bigger cube made from the small cubes.
List the children's ideas on the board.
Adaptation for NESB student: Be careful to term these using the correct mathematical language.
Following the idea of grouping the cubes in groups ( or sticks) of 10 ask the children to form the cubes into sticks of 10.
Look at the collection of 10 sticks
Ask the children to make collections of 100 with the 10-sticks.
Look at the 100's collections. (As a class work develop a name for the 10x10 cubes, for example walls, panels.)
Published on: 09 Jan 2018
