Year 2 Maths · Term 2 · Weeks 13–14

A robot without a robot

Make something a willing reader could actually use: a replayable paper route guide or a complete quantity/order card with a checking reason.

15–30 adjustable minutes or several short offers; optional project, not required homework.

Whole launch source

Fictional paper scene: Quiet puppet theatre. Columns A to D run left to right; rows 1 to 3 run top to bottom. The 4 by 3 grid has equal cells. One move reaches one neighbouring cell, with no diagonals. Up/down refer to this page’s top/bottom, not a person’s facing direction. Start D3; target B1. Every cell inside the grid is open. The proposed instruction is 2 cells up, then 2 cells left. This is supplied fiction, not an observed journey or real-world distance.

Make a complete route a reader could follow. Name its start, target, directions and a checking reason. A different legal route is welcome.

Make your useful thing

  1. Choose one job and explain who might use the guide. A fictional reader or solo rehearsal is fine.
  2. Receive own source-specific route or representation before adult worked support.
  3. Build/dictate a complete guide with a legend, full quantities or directions and one checking reason.
  4. Use the stated source to replay/check. If a willing real reader tries it, record their actual words/actions with permission; otherwise keep it as a proposed test.
  5. Change one explained feature and keep both chosen versions manually. Recheck the full source after any change.
Adult teaching after the own try

The proposed recorded positions are D3, D2, D1, C1, B1; final B1. It makes 4 one-cell moves, with 5 recorded positions including its start. It is legal and reaches the target.

A complete different guided try

Fictional paper scene: Quiet puppet theatre — separate later try. Columns A to D run left to right; rows 1 to 4 run top to bottom. The 4 by 4 grid has equal cells. One move reaches one neighbouring cell, with no diagonals. Up/down refer to this page’s top/bottom, not a person’s facing direction. Start A4; target C1. Every cell inside the grid is open. The proposed instruction is 3 cells up, then 2 cells right. This is supplied fiction, not an observed journey or real-world distance.

Make a complete route a reader could follow. Name its start, target, directions and a checking reason. A different legal route is welcome.

The proposed recorded positions are A4, A3, A2, A1, B1, C1; final C1. It makes 5 one-cell moves, with 6 recorded positions including its start. It is legal and reaches the target.

Make it yours

  1. Swap the story purpose while preserving source quantities/positions, or declare/recheck a complete new source.
  2. Use marks, oral directions, sign/AAC or a tactile model. No polished handwriting or digital art criterion.
  3. Make a larger paper guide, a quiet one-card version or an optional new challenge with explicitly new values.

A useful product has complete known source information, a supported route/value/check and truthful open reader outcomes. Quality of drawing or public sharing is not mathematical evidence.