Arrays around the school

Our children are exploring arrays and their relationship to multiplication during maths workshops. Last week, the group went outside to investigate the different arrays found around the school. We walked around the school grounds and photographed the arrays we found. We discussed the arrays and how they can be expressed in different ways. We found out that we can talk about the arrays as rows and how many in each row. We can also say how many things are in the array in total. We can also look at the array as a multiplication number sentence. We wrote all three of these to go with our photos

Bede found arrays in the windows of our art space.

Jane-Rose also found arrays in windows. This one was found on the Red Brick Building

Alice also used the window of the Red Brick Building.

Shreyash found an array in the cage of the tannoy speaker.

Alex found this array on the playground.

The group looked at the bricks at the entrance of the school. We found out that there were 310 bricks in each row and there were 7 rows. All together, there were 2,170 bricks.