Friday 18th October

For a start, in our maths lesson today, we were given a plastic wallet containing 466 in Base 10 (using a combination of units, tens and hundreds). Once we had our wallets, our next job was to find a partner to play ‘rock, paper, scissors’ against then the two of us had to agree on how much we were playing for, either a unit, a ten or a hundred. The winner would then be given the agreed amount by the loser and both of us would go and find someone new to play against.

When we got to the point that we had 10 of one particular piece of Base 10 (units, tens or hundreds) then we had to exchange these. For example, if I collected 10 hundreds I could then go to the front and swap my hundreds for a thousand cube.

The game ended when one of us lost all of our Base 10 and at this point we counted up to see who had the most and was therefore the winner.