We have had some brilliant work today in Maths. As we are getting closer and closer to May my thoughts turn to how children interpret questions. I decided this week would be a good time to revisit the RUCSAC mnemonic for remembering the processes for working out what a problem is asking.
RUCSAC stands for : Read, Understand, Choose (operation), Solve, Answer and Check.
We were observed today and I decided to take a risk and try something new I'd read about on a blog by a teacher on twitter known as @ohlottie. She had tried a version of graffitti maths, read about it on her blog here:
http://clairelotriet.com/blog/2012/12/15/graffiti-maths/
We used paper on our tables too and worked through money word problems from past test papers. Children were differentiated in four groups and worked at levels 3-6, the idea that they would move up into higher level questions. They loved the freedom to scrawl their working out and even attempted new (for them) methods.
It was a great lesson and got an outstanding which was an added bonus! Have a look at some of our work.
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