Today's maths lesson in Year 5 was a good example of how learning in school is carefully sequenced. Yesterday, the children learnt about square numbers, which deliberately preceded today's learning about cube numbers.
The tasks were also sequenced carefully, with all children making cubes to show 2 cubed and 3 cubed and investigating whether a cube can be made from 6 smaller cubes. This allowed the children to master the basic concept.
A similar task was then provided to allow children to embed this knowledge before moving on to the Deeper Thinking Tasks which allowed for more reasoning and open thinking.
'E' was able to explain that yesterday's lesson, working with squares, was all about two dimensions which is sensible to learn before moving on to three dimensions, which is the next step.
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