Year 4 are getting hands on!

The children have been looking at recapping their work on subtraction from Year 3. We still had some misconceptions to address for example when you can complete 3 - 6 or 6 - 3 in a column method. We learnt about regrouping and exchanging when it was needed. We still had our highlighters out from Guided Reading so I asked a child to get 6 highlighters and then give me 3. I then asked a child to get 3 highlighters and give me 6. It was good to see that "light bulb moment" around the room. This will link nicely into our work when look at negative numbers and that is why we never say that we can't do 3 - 6.