Strengthening connections to maths language

Today for Maths Nidhi and I learnt that many words can mean the same thing when you are using maths language. We thought about all the different ways of saying hello and how that could be confusing for someone who was learning to speak English. Then Mrs Anderson asked us 'What is a plane?' We all thought that she was asking us about the aircraft plane but we learnt there are two meanings for the word plane. The plane she was asking about is the plane surface that is used in Math. We used the vocabulary DLO to see some other words that were used in Math which we didn't know. We used the explore tool to see what the words meant and dragged them to where they belong. Mrs Anderson's friend shared this activity with us because we need to know what the words mean in a maths context to help us understand what the question is asking us to do.