Understanding Addition Through Oracy

We had a fantastic session in maths based around our understanding of the column method of addition. We were posed with a range of calculations which all had errors in. We worked in pairs, tables and as a class to talk through the problems. We had so many light bulb moments as we worked as a team to move our learning and understanding on.
The mistakes were all misconceptions that appear commonly and by working together we could share those.

Pupil Voice

'Oh I can see it now, the numbers are not in the correct place value position' Felix.

'Where the dots are should be zeros' Lexie
'But those dots are decimals? Declan
'So they are decimal numbers but they are not in the correct place' Lexie

'They haven't carried the tens over (shakes her head). Maggie.