Make 1000
We began by asking the children how much space would 1,000 jelly beans take up. Their answers varied from one handful to it would fill the whole world! Most children believed it would at least fill the whole Learning Community.
So...
Over two weeks the children investigated what a thousand looked like and ways they could make it.
They began by:
We then asked the kids to think about how could you best organise 1,000?
So...
Over two weeks the children investigated what a thousand looked like and ways they could make it.
They began by:
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| Making a huge line! |
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| Counting by rows of ten. |
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| Counting one by one. |
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| More rows on ten. |
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| Making bundles to help keep count. |
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| Our huge 1,000 snake running all down the hall. |
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| A pile of 1,000. This groups decided each of the five members would add 200 each. |
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| This groups found out 50 rows of 20 made 1,000. |
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| Here the bundles of ten have been arranged into rows of ten to assist in the counting. |
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| More heads make light work!! |
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| This cube is 10 x 10 x 10. |
We then asked the kids to think about how could you best organise 1,000?
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| More clever kids! A cube again. |
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| This group used MAB blocks in rows of ten. |