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““Marvellous Maths: Learning through investigation”Marvellous Maths: Learning through investigation”Ceip Juan Lorenzo PalmirenoCeip Juan Lorenzo PalmirenoLaura Giner GascónLaura Giner Gascón

3rd Year Primary Students want to know How tall their teachers are and…

who is the tallest and who is the shortest?

So, first of all, Children count the teachers they have for each subject.

Spanish Language, Arts, Social Science and Maths: Héctor GNatural Science: Marta HReligion: Pili PPhysical Education: Bea AMusic: Carmen JLiteracy: Laura G

They realise they have 6 teachers so we split the class into 6 groups to work using a Cooperative learning structure (giving each of them a different role)

Each group has to complete the information required estimating and using their hands. Finally they will be able to use a tape measure.

Let´s see the process…

Using their Using their hands to hands to measuremeasure

Drawing their Drawing their silhouettesilhouette to see how tall they to see how tall they areare

Drawing details…Drawing details…

Painting …Painting …

Each group with their Each group with their silhouettesilhouette

Posing… Posing… Sihlouette versus Sihlouette versus teacherteacher

Time to measure our Time to measure our silhouettes with… a tape silhouettes with… a tape

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Finally we Finally we decide who is decide who is the tallest and the tallest and who is the who is the shortestshortest

They put in They put in order from the order from the shortest to the shortest to the tallesttallest