The past month my students have been working on creating clocks from paper plates. Now as you know, I teach 5th grade. So this is nothing new for students. In 2nd and 3rd grade students create clocks. They put the 12 at the top, the 6 on the bottom, the 9 goes to the left, the 3 goes to the right, and all the other numbers are filled in. Students practice counting by 5's around the clock in lower grades. They work on quarter hour, half hour, etc in the younger grades too.
I took their knowledge of clocks, and changed it up! They made Numerical Expression Clocks! Students used parentheses, braces, and brackets to make the numbers 1 - 12. That took about 2 weeks and a lot of trial and error for students. However, once they understood ... the light bulbs in their brains were glowing.
Here are some of the completed Numerical Expression Clocks!
The best is yet to come!
Happy Learning! Happy Teaching!
~Sandra @The Happy Learning Den
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