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Hi there mathematicians, let's start investigating some ideas together.

So you might have just seen in episode of number blocks. It's ok if you haven't seen it yet. You can still join with us today and play with us, but in the episode of number blocks we had some of our little characters. Yes, I made these cause I really like them. I know and Four's other eyebrow came off but we won't worry about that. And in the episode of number blocks, some of the blocks were playing a game called Stampolines.

Yes, and so what was happening was the shapes were coming along to, to, to, to, to, do jumping into a thing of paint and sploshing onto the wall. And they were leaving a shape behind them. So in this case, Four's shape looked a bit like this.

Where we could see the four blocks.

Yes.

And then sometimes Four could reform. So along they would come to, to, to, to, do and he would jump into the ink and splash up on to the wall. Yes, and so this times he's making a different shape. It's a bit hard to trace around, so I'll just draw them as squares. Like this and I can still see there's four squares 'cause look if I join that down there still makes for, but this time he has a different shape. So what I was wondering about today is what would the Stampolines look like if it wasn't One or Two or Three or Four or Five that were playing Stampolines but what would it look like if instead it was Six who was playing?

Yeah, so what's one way you can think of already? Oh, I can think of that one too. He comes along jumps in and makes a big long rectangle. So I'm going to record this way. Now I could trace around it if I like or I could draw next to it. My long rectangle and it's got six blocks so I halve it and then I third it. And that's one way, yeah, and what's another way? Oh, Ok, let's do a tricky one ready? Do, do, do, do, do, jumps into the ink, flat on to the wall. Oh yeah, it looks like a staircase. I'm going to move it over so I can draw it next to it. So three blocks down the better middle, one block here, two blocks there, and then three blocks here.

Ah ha. Ok, I can reform six as one big rectangle. And now mathematicians, it's over to you.

What are all the different Stampolines that you could imagine that Six could make as she jumps into the paint and forms shapes on the wall? See if you can come up with five different ways or more.

Over to you mathematicians.

And before you go, what's some of the mathematics here? So this task helps us to notice the smaller parts that make up the bigger whole of six. It's really important knowledge for us is mathematicians. It also helps us build our knowledge of shapes, deepen our reasoning skills, and improve our skills as communicating like mathematicians.

Have fun Stampolining.