How many faces can we make?
Yunus Emre Primary School
Karaman
Reply from 8° Circolo Didattico Brindisi Primary School “De Amicis” Tuturano
Age:
9 to 10 years
Aims:
To recognise multiplication in a context of counting combinations.
Material:
Nine circles cut out of sheets of cardboard and markers.
Introduction:
The teacher gives out the circles to the pupils and asks them to draw three types of eyebrows, three types of eyes and three types of different mouths:
The pupils investigate the different ways to make a face ( you can see some of them in the photographs).
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The pupils state that they can make 27 different faces and relate this number to the result of the multiplication: 3x3x3
Observations:
The teacher added two circles (a mouth and a pair of eyes) to make the activity a little more difficult. The pupils have designed various combinations; they compared the results and had fun.
