Blog Draft #4

Hello my name is Andrew Andrews and I am reporting for 1 News. I am at Forrest Hill Primary School and I am here to learn what they do for their maths rotation here. The lead teacher in this team informed me that the rotation is organised by the students going to different Year 6 classrooms. They are in groups that are run by Whaea Sam, Matua J and Whaea Nat. When the students have got enough food inside of them they go inside their classrooms and get their math books and a pen or a pencil. They know which classroom that they should go to because there is a timetable in all of their classes where they will see their names. I interviewed a student named Andrej and he said ‘’ the rotation is awesome and fun and we get to do the statistical inquiry aka the independent activity and we are in groups of our choice.’’ As I am watching the students for the first time they look like a traffic jam in a big city and they are all lost and do not know what to do because it is their first time and are really busy with getting their books and trying to find which classrooms to go in first. One of the students told me that they think the rotation is kind of stressful because of all the pushing and shoving going around in different classrooms. The independent activity this term is a statistical inquiry and it is about them running a shop. They need to pick 6 categories from their shop of their choice and they also need to have 6 choices in their categories. It needs to be presented on a slideshow or a Google Doc because it is a presentation that is involving votes from different people in their syndicate. They all see Whaea Nat once in a rotation for problem solving. There are 5 groups from 1 - 5. How does your school run their maths in Year 6? My name is Andrew Andrews and this is 1 News.