Team JF

This week, the children of Team JF started exploring subtraction. To begin with, we looked at the minus symbol and mind mapped as many different words to represent it as we could and what we already knew about it. From this, we used tens frame to represent numbers and started to discuss what happens to numbers when we subtract. As we practised our skills, we started to recognise patterns within our calculations and our number bonds to 10. Finally, we worked with our partner to use two tens frames to start with a whole of twenty.  As the week progressed, we began to think about how to solve trickier calculations quickly. We used our knowledge of partitioning to help us do this. The children used Base 10 to make their numbers and place them in the correct columns on the place value chart. After that, we started taking away from our whole number. Finally, we were able to identify what we had left.