Day 2 ( Subitize)

Toady's lesson started with lesson 6 which is of playing  a pick up stick game where 2 players were to take either 1 or 2 sticks each time and they were to  find out which was the bad number . As there were a bundle of sticks at the beginning  of the game we did not know which is the bad number .But,as we played a few times and when we were able to gauge the bad number with a fewer number of sticks than we tried finding out the pattern . As now maths has to do with finding patterns rather than memorising .
Therefore the pattern were
Take                   Bad numbers
1,2                       3,6,9
1,2,3                    4,8,12
1,2,3,4                 5,10,15
thus through this we know that it is in multiples of the next number that we did not take.this content really focuses on counting and for the faster children they can go on to find for the bad numbers .
The other lesson was a video shown to a group of students where Dr Ban Har will be playing with 2 dice and then he will find out the number you are thinking of . Its kind a like reading ur mind .It was amazing as how he could tell the number that was hiding in between . Even i could not figure it the first few times but after drawing out the dice on my paper i was able to find out the number as the number hiding will always be the opposite number and two numbers of the dice will always add up to 7 .
i today's lesson i like the terms he used and the one that strike me was the one about meta cognition which is the part of the brain that manged the thinking process and that we need to give time for the children to respond as it takes time and as teachers we provide the answers even before they could respond .