Yr 2.2 students of Ms Stephanie Azzopardi learning about tens and units in a practical and hands-on approach.

Students learn better when they have the opportunity to manipulate real life objects to help them understand mathematical concepts better.  

That is why the year 3.1 students take part in such activities on a daily basis during their Mathematics lessons.

In the photos, the students can be seen using resources from their Maths Toolbox to help them understand Tens and Units better. They watched videos, songs and PowerPoints about the topic and they played online games too. They also participated in several hands on activities involving manipulatives, that included base ten blocks, 10c and 1c coins as well as straws, in order to learn about tens and units in a concrete way.  Then, the students moved on to representing 2-digit numbers in a pictorial way and finally, they worked out related tasks involving the writing of numbers, thus adopting the concrete, pictorial and abstract (CPA) mode of teaching in our lessons.