Lesson video

Hello mathematicians, it's me, Miss Childsen and my taught partner, Hedwig, all ready for some more exciting learning with you.

I hope you're all feeling well, and happy today.

Let's find out what we're going to be learning.

So today we're going to use the language of position.

you're going to learn that language, and then you're going to follow instructions using the language of position to crack a code, it's going to be very exciting.

Then you'll do your independent task and check your answers with me.

You'll need a pencil, and some paper, and then some colouring crayons or felt tips to help you do the independent task.

Let's start off with a brain teaser to get us warmed up.

Now, we've got some number bonds to, nine here, so we need to find the total as nine.

And there's some missing boxes.

Your job is to see if you can figure out what those missing boxes are.

So, for example, the first one has zero and nine.

I know that zero plus nine is equal to nine.

So the box on the top must be a number nine.

Pause the video now and see if you can fill in the missing boxes and then come back and we'll check together.

How did everybody get on? Did you complete the boxes like I did? Zero and nine is equal to nine.

One and eight is equal to nine.

Two and seven.

Three and six.

Four and five.

Five and four is equal to nine.

It was the total missing in that one.

Six plus three in equal to nine.

Seven plus two in equal to nine.

And nine plus zero is equal to nine.

I feel warmed up for the lesson now, hopefully you do too.

Right, let's get to our star words.

Get your hand ready.

Hands up star words.

Left, right, between, above.

Those are some of the words that you're going to need to use today because we're using the language of position.

And those words come up with that language.

So whether something is between something, or above something.

So those words will help you today.

I got a big picture here full of treats! It's making me hungry again! Is it making anybody else hungry? Oh, I think I'd like to eat those.

Now, we're going to use the language of position to describe the positioning of each of those shapes, of those sweets, in front of us.

For example: the words next to, in front of, on top of, under, between, and above.

So let's try that out.

The first one is, the triangle roof is.

Hm, let's have a look.

The triangle roof, can you see that roof? It's in the shape of a triangle.

The triangle roof is, where is it? Well, it's at the top and it's above the rest of the house.

And the house is a rectangle shape.

So the triangle roof is above the rectangle house.

Look, I used one of the words down the side, I used the word above.

The triangle roof is above the rectangle house.

I just used the language of position to describe the position where the triangle roof is.

What I want you to do, is pause the video and now see if you can use some of that language to describe the position of the different shapes or things you can see in the picture.

So you might then say, the rectangle house is below, or under, the triangle roof.

You might like to look at the circle sunshine.

Is that above something? Is it next to something? Maybe you might like to look at the door, the rectangle door of the house.

Is that next to something, above something, below, or is it between, maybe you might like to say it's between the windows and you could describe the windows.

So pause the video now, and have fun exploring telling your taught partner, or someone in your house, all about the positions of different shapes and treats that you can see.

And then come back and we'll carry on with the lesson.

Hope you had fun exploring that.

Now we're going to get a little bit more challenging.

So instead of using the big picture to help us, we've got some clues.

And the clues will help us to fill in these missing boxes.

These boxes need to have different colours in them.

So this is a color-code cracking activity.

And we need to carefully read through these instructions using the language of position to help us.

So my first instruction says, "blue is above yellow, and left of green." Hm.

How on Earth am I going to work that out? Blue is above yellow, and left of green.

So if blue is above, and there are just the two rows there, we know it's on the top, and we know that yellow needs to be underneath.

So I know that blue must be one of those top boxes there.

Because we know that it is above.

And if it's to the left of green, we know that it needs to be on the side.

So we know that it needs to be further 'cross.

So let's see where we could put that in.

If we put the green in, we know that if we put the green in on the top, on the same level as the blue, then the blue is to the left of it.

We've got the right, and we've got the left.

And blue is to the left of the green.

And I know that it' above the yellow.

Hm, if it's above yellow, then yellow must be here! Let's check those colours through with the codes that we've just been given.

Blue is above yellow, have we put that above yellow? Yes, check, we've done that! Blue is to the left of green.

I can see green, and you know that your left is that way.

So that I know that I've put blue in the correct box.

So I've got blue, yellow, and green.

Are you ready for the next clue? Orange is above red.

Hm.

Well if orange is above, then it means that red is below.

Which means that red needs to be on the bottom row, and orange needs to be on the top row.

Now, looking at our boxes that are left, which box could I not use for this? Well, I couldn't use the box below the green one, because I know that orange and red need to be exactly above and below each other.

So, orange must be here, and red must be here.

We've got orange and red.

Orange is above the red.

The last spot clue says "purple is below green." well, I've got green, and I know the purple is below green, so purple must go here.

That was some serious code cracking, wasn't it? I think we need a celebration.

Let's have, we don't want to wake Hedwig, she's ever so sleepy.

So let's have a fairy clap.

You ready? You get your two fingers ready and we go that's a fairy clap.

You can do that when you need to be quiet.

Right.

Now it's your turn to have a go.

You need to try and use the same technique that we just used together to have a go at solving this color-code cracking task yourself.

So look carefully at the instructions, you're first one says "blue is between yellow and green." So if blue is between yellow and green, you know that you need to have yellow and green on either side of blue.

So what you can experiment with this, now don't worry if you make some mistakes, because they are quite tricky.

You can draw the boxes out if you want to, or you can use the template you've been given.

And just have a go at practising.

If you get it wrong, it's okay, we can come back and check it together.

So pause the video now, and then we'll come and check the answers together.

How did everybody get on? Let's go through the clues and see if we've got the right colours in the right places.

Blue is between yellow and green.

So I've put blue in the middle box and then I've got yellow and green on either side.

But I needed to do was to check the next clue.

Because it says that orange is below yellow.

If orange is below yellow it meant that yellow had to be on one of the top boxes.

So yellow had to be on the top, so I know that blue and green also had to be on the top.

Orange is below yellow, so put orange below yellow in that box.

Purple is to the right of both red and orange.

So if purple needs to be right on this side, on the right hand side, I know that that needs to go in the box at the bottom, there.

And then red can be filled in in the middle box.

How did you get on? Was that tricky? Maybe you might like to try and write your own code.

If you want to share your work with Oak, you can use the details there.

Well done today everybody, fantastic learning.

Are you ready to explain to our sleepy Hedwig what we learned? Come on Hedwig, wakey, wakey.

We learned some new language today, Hedwig.

We were learning all about the language of position.

So we used words like, above, below, between, left of, and then, we used that language of position to crack a code! It was very challenging, but I really enjoyed problem solving and doing it.

I hope you did too.

Really well done for all of the learning today everybody.

I'll se you again soon, bye!.