How many faces can we make?
Yunus Emre Primary School
Karaman
Age:
10-11
Aims:
To recognise multiplication in a context of counting combinations.
Material:
Seven 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, two types of eyes and two 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 12 different faces and relate this number to the result of the multiplication 2 x 3 x 2.
