Maths Intensive week

In week 4 the school had a Maths Intensive Week. All learners in Room 1 thoroughly enjoyed this week. Each day the learners were given a new challenge to complete and time was given for sharing and asking of questions. The same format of agreeing or disagreeing with a reason was used. I also introduced ... How do you know your answer is right? I have a question about....

It was interesting to note that as partners were working together solving the windows in our street problem how they communicated freely with each other. Learners were also actively engaged and keen to ask questions and comment on others work at the feedback session. The question I now have is how much influence does the problem and task have on the oral language used when sharing as 'talk' was greatly increased and evident with the making our own street problem.