Position in Maths

This week we are learning about positional language in Maths.  We began the lesson by looking at the UK website Topmarks for a great interactive activity about  Positional language.

We then moved onto a new activity that required the students to demonstrate their understanding of positional language by telling their partner where to place a coloured cube. Each student had six different coloured cubes The difficulty was that the partners were sitting back to back.  The language I was looking for was "place the red cube on top of the blue cube. or place the yellow cube behind the purple cube, put the green cube to the left of the red cube etc. The students had a great time!