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Explanation: more Variation

Explanation: more Variation

In this step, we introduce a sequence of tasks from a textbook that is designed with many of the Asian maths principles in mind.

This video demonstrates how you could have approached it.

In the video a ‘building of quadrilaterals’ is mentioned. A very useful book about this has been written by Zalman Usiskin: “The Classification of Quadrilaterals: A Study in Definition” (published by Information Age Publishing, 2008).

Note: These tasks are adapted from ‘Max Maths Primary – A Singapore Approach’.

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World Class Maths: Asian Teaching Practice

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