Hundred Faces

Last year in a spare moment in the maths lessons, a couple of people showed up:

These guys turned up uninvited in the maths lesson. pic.twitter.com/8boz5MHHYt

— Simon Gregg (@Simon_Gregg) October 8, 2014

Malke replied, and, like it does, a conversation got going.

An idea was seeded:

@mathinyourfeet ...I know... #hundredfaces - make any face you like, but it adds up to a hundred

— Simon Gregg (@Simon_Gregg) October 8, 2014

And the idea grew in a great post by Malke where she finessed it with further constraints.

It was an idea I went with:

 

It was great to see the #hundredface idea growing again today, with tweets from Dani and Joseángel:

8 x 10 + 4 x 5 = #hundredface @mathinyourfeet @tocamates @Simon_Gregg pic.twitter.com/Ju7wVkljKb

— Daniel Ruiz Aguilera (@druizaguilera) December 4, 2015

Más caras del 100 #hundredface @druizaguilera @mathinyourfeet @Simon_Gregg pic.twitter.com/nNSnW5AhLt

— Joseángel Murcia (@tocamates) December 4, 2015

Y dos caritas del 50 @druizaguilera @mathinyourfeet @Simon_Gregg pic.twitter.com/WXiibTJ7Zq

— Joseángel Murcia (@tocamates) December 4, 2015

They were introducing new and experienced teachers to the idea, and it's nice to think that there will be hundred faces cropping up in classrooms. It's a very natural playful activity - something that children like to do, but it also has that number component, that constraint, which leads on to all sorts of other possibilities.