I came across this activity many moons ago so thought it was timely to resurrect as another way to introduce or practise using Ordered Pairs.
Personally hope you are still encouraging children/students to play "Battle Ships" and similar games that I can remember playing, some 70 years ago.
It does require a little preparation but I hope the outcomes are worth it And it could spark interest in finding out about Penguins, especially the Hoiho as it is very endangered.
I have to admit I am not a great fan of too much Technology with children, as I believe students learn best by doing, talking about what they have been doing and then writing(in maths language).
DO
SAY
WRITE
It is difficult for me to understand how students can learn to Measure if all they have is a Tablet in their hand. Measurement is about Stepping, Holding, Weighing(Balance scale) etc.
That said her is a Fun Calculator Activity for you to try on your students or children. After repeating it a number of times you may wish to ask them to see if they can work out "why it works."
Enjoy.
Often when encouraging students to learn/memorise tables we do not always look at some of the maths "hidden" in the numbers.
I can remember seeing the "Lights go on" when exploring with students various Divisibility Rules. I still use the Divisible by Four rule for working out which years are Leap Years, or when the Olympic Games are scheduled.
Three Gazinta could be the springboard for further investigations as well as a context for simple additions and division by 3. Tables with a Purpose!
With the New Zealand Mathematics Curriculum of the 1990's each Achievement Objective was prefaced by words such as; "Through problems and investigations students will achieve.."
This was a time when those involved in Mathematics Education Teaching and Learning also encouraged "Contexts for Studying Mathemathics" so that the maths skills and ideas had real life ideas to explore and learn the mathematics.
On Thursday I visited an Oral Surgeon, and before he filled y mouth with Instruments he asked me what I used to do. This of course opened a quick discussion about "How Children Learn Maths and My Philosophy" When I mentioned Contextual Learning he said that he did Orienteering with his daughter! Wow what a great physical as well as mathematical activity. Geometry and Measurement in CONTEXT! I then offered to send him some repeatable maths activities for the family to do together, otherwise he was going to go online to find Maths Pages. I encouraged the games as they would be learning together, they are fun and they would be "talking mathematicss"
