![]() ![]() Of course, all the questions above could be asked separately for domino trails and matching domino trails. Is it possible to make trails which total to each and every possible total between the highest and lowest?įor a 3 domino trail it might even be possible to answer the question: In how many ways can each of these totals be made? But when we find those answers for a given length of trail, there is still at least one more question. Maximum and minimum values are a favourite study of mathematicians. For a given length of trail, what is the maximum possible target and what it the minimum possible target. The card also suggests another level of reasoning. we change the length of the trail? Implied too is the question What happens if. We even looked at the difference between some dot patterns.Ĭlearly Eric and the kids have asked the mathematician's question What happens if. Children worked for over an hour, wrote nothing down on paper but did lots and lots of sums. Kids were really good and two groups of girls made five sets of three domino trails that equal 12 from the one packet. ![]() We played dominoes, looked at the patterns of the dots, selected dominoes with a given value and then in pairs made up two, three, four and five domino trails. One teacher school, 15 Indigenous students from prep to grade six. ![]() Had a great session with Domino Trails out at Amanbidgi. Heaps of arithmetic practice in a problem-solving situation: This task is very open-ended and experience suggests that most students love creating their own target and trying to make the dominoes add to it. There is always more to a task than is recorded on the card. ![]() Iceberg A task is the tip of a learning iceberg. This cameo has a From The Classroom section showing teachers exploring floor dominoes in a workshop. Can you make a matching domino trail to equal the number in the circle?
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