Fun with Sorting

 This week we looked at 'sorting'. We talked lots about things that get sorted in our lives and the different 'attributes' things can be sorted by.

We sorted all our shoes. We came up with lots of ways we could sort them:

- By colour

- By size

- By how they do up

- By type

Once we had sorted into piles, Vincent had the idea that we should line them up so it was easier to see how many were in each group. What a great idea! We needed to make sure the lines started at the same place so we used the edge of the mat. We had a great discussion about how this looked just like a graph. Some people had heard of graphs before, and others hadn't.

Maths isn's always numbers and operations, maths is all around us!

"Most of the shoes in our class are sandals"

"Sneakers and slip on shoes have the least amount"

"Sneakers and slip ons have the same number"

"Black and white are the most popular shoe colour"