Lesson video

Hello there, my name is Mr. Tilstone.

I'm a teacher.

If I've met you before, it's lovely to see you again.

And if I haven't met you before, it's really nice to meet you.

If I haven't met you before, let me tell you something about myself.

I love maths.

It's my favourite subject, so I'm really excited to be here with you today teaching you this lesson.

If you are ready to begin, will you help me by counting down to the lesson? Are you ready? Five.

Four.

Three.

Two.

One.

Let's begin.

The outcome of today's lesson is this, I can use mathematical vocabulary such as left, right, above, below, and between to describe position.

And hopefully you've heard those words before, so this is going to be a useful reminder.

And here are those key words.

If I say them, will you say them back please? Are you ready? My turn, left.

Your turn.

My turn, right.

Your turn.

My turn, above.

Your turn.

My turn, below.

Your turn.

My turn between.

Your turn.

And those words are going to come up a lot today.

Our lesson is split into two parts, or two cycles as we call them.

The first we'll be using left and right to describe position, and the second describing position in other ways.

So let's begin by using left and right to describe position.

And in this lesson you're going to meet Jun and Izzy, they're here today to give us a helping hand with the maths.

Left and right can be used to describe position.

Do you know your left from your right? It can be tricky.

What about this? What part's shaded, the left or the right? What's about now, left or right? What about now, what's shaded, left or right? What's about now, what's the purple part, left or right? What's about now, left or right? Well, in all of these cases, the left side has been shaded.

What about now, left or right? What's shaded? What's shaded now, left or right? What's shaded now, left or right? What's shaded now, left or right? And finally, what's shaded now, left or right? These shapes are all shaded on the right side.

Everybody has a left side and a right side, and Izzy's going to help us out now with that.

Can you move these parts of your body on the left side? Are you ready? Left arm.

Can you move your left arm? Izzy's there to remind you which one your left arm is.

Move your left arm.

Okay, good.

What's about, can you move your left leg somehow? Move your left leg.

Good.

Now can you move your left hand? Very good.

Now can you move your left foot? Good.

Good.

Now can you move your left shoulder? That's it.

Now try to move each part of your body on the right side.

Are you ready for this? So the right side this time.

Can you move your right hand? That's it.

Can you move your right foot? That's it.

Can you move your right arm? You got it! Can you move your right leg? That's the one.

And finally, can you move your right shoulder? That's it.

So all of your body parts that we've named so far have got left and right versions.

Sometimes it can be tricky to remember which side is left and which side is right.

Lots of people, even adults, still get them confused sometimes.

Try using your hands to help you.

Hold them up in front of you like this.

So do that with your hands so that they're facing that way so that the fingernails are pointing towards you, and your thumbs are joined.

Just like that.

Okay.

What do you notice? Something a little bit clever here.

Can you see it? What shape's being made? What letter's being made? Your left hand shows an L shape from your finger to your thumb.

Yes it does.

Here we go, an L shape.

Left starts with the letter L, and that might help you remember which side is left.

Izzy is out walking.

What is on her left, and what is on her right? So what's to the left of Izzy, and what is to the right of Izzy? What could you say? Well, the van is on Izzy's left, and the bus is on Izzy's right.

Izzy carries on walking.

Now what's on her left, and what's on her right? The tree is on Izzy's left, and the church is on Izzy's right.

I wonder, if you stand up now, what's on your left and what's on your right? Complete these sentences.

The squirrel is on Izzy's? Left or right? The lamppost is on Izzy's.

Left or right? And there is also a on Izzy's left or right? There's a couple of possible answers for that last one.

Okay, pause the video.

Let's have a check.

Let's see what you said.

So the squirrel is on Izzy's right hand side, and the lamppost is on Izzy's left hand side.

There is also a, now there's two answers you could give here.

You could say there is a bird on Izzy's left.

That's true.

Or you might have said there is a flower on Izzy's right.

That's true too.

So that's left and right, do you think you can remember that.

You could use left and right to describe the position of the different objects on this grid.

The orange is to the left of the lemon.

Would you agree? So there's the lemon, and on the lemon's left, there's an orange.

The pear is to the right of the lemon.

Would you agree? So there's a lemon, and to the lemon's right there is a pear.

The lemon is to the left of the pear.

So it's helpful to describe positions using left and right.

You could use left and right to describe the position of the different shapes on this grid.

Lots of things we could say here.

Let's have a look at a few of them.

We could say the triangle is to the right of the cube.

We could say the cube is to the left of the triangle.

So looking at that the other way round.

We could say the cylinder is to the right of the hexagon.

Lots of things we could say.

Can you complete these sentences using left and right? So the pentagon is to the, of the cylinder.

The hexagon is to the, of the cylinder.

The cylinder is to the, of the pentagon.

Okay, pause the video, give that a go.

How are you getting on with your left and right? Let's have a look.

So that pentagon is to the right of the cylinder.

Well done if you said that.

And the hexagon is to the left of the cylinder.

So we can look at that both ways.

And the cylinder is to the left of the pentagon.

Well done if you got those.

It is time for some practise, and you are definitely ready for this.

You're doing really well.

Number one, how many different ways could you complete these sentence? Use the words in the box to help you.

And there are lots and lots and lots and lots of ways to do this.

So don't stop at one.

So the, is to the, of the.

And we've got the words left, right, one pence, two pence, five pence, 10 pence, 20 pence, 50 pence and coin.

So use those words in that stem sentence.

You could say, for example, that the 10 pence coin is to the right of the 20 pence coin.

That's one of many examples.

And number two, Izzy has buried some treasure.

Oh, this looks fun.

Use the map along with her clues to mark where you think the treasure is buried.

So here are Izzy's clues, are you ready? She says, "My first treasure is to the left of the volcano.

My second treasure is to the right of the palm tree." So which square is to the right of the palm tree? "My third treasure is to the left of the lighthouse." Which square is to the left of the lighthouse? And number three, add some more landmarks to the map.

Describe to a partner where you would bury your treasure.

So I wonder what else you could draw on the map.

Okay, good luck with that.

Have fun with that.

Pause the video and away you go.

Welcome back.

How did you get on with that? Did you have fun? Let's have a look at some answers.

These are all the sentences you could have written for the top row of coins.

So you could have said the five pence coins to the left of the 50 pence coin.

The 50 pence coins to the right of the five pence coin.

The 50 pence coin is to the left of the one pence coin.

And the one pence coin is to the right of the 50 pence coin.

Well done it you got any of those.

That's top row covered.

And what about that bottom row? Well, the two pence coin is to the left of the 20 pence coin.

The 20 pence coin is to the right of the two pence coin.

The 20 pence coin is to the left of the 10 pence coin.

And the 10 pence coin is to the right of the 20 pence coin.

Well done if you got any of those eight sentences.

Special well done if you got more than one of those eight sentences.

And a really, really big special well done if you've managed to write all eight of those sentences, that's brilliant work.

And number two, "My first treasure is to the left of the volcano." Okay, so let's find the volcano, and the square to the left of that is just here.

So that's where part of her treasure is buried.

"My second treasure is to the right of the palm tree," well, we've found the palm tree, and the square just to the right of that is here.

"And my third treasure is to the left of the lighthouse." I found the lighthouse, and one to the left of that is just here.

And you could have added some rocks, for example, to your map.

You could have hidden your treasure to the left of the rocks.

That's one of many examples.

There's the rocks, and here is the treasure.

You're doing very, very well, and you are definitely ready for the next cycle, which is describing position in other ways.

So we've got left and right.

They're really useful.

They're not the only position words that we can use.

There are others.

Let's have a look.

Izzy is looking at the treasure map again, she thinks there are more words that she could use to describe the position of the different landmarks.

Can you think of any other words apart from left and right? What about this one, the lighthouse is above the palm tree.

That's a useful position word.

And then we could say, the palm tree is below the lighthouse.

Above and below are opposite words.

The volcano is above the rocks.

So I suppose that we could also say the rocks are below the volcano.

Izzy could use the words above and below to describe the position of these coins.

The five pence coin is above an empty square.

The two pence coin is below the 50 pence coin.

Yes it is.

We could also say the 50 pence coin is above the two pence coin.

What about this, the one pence coin is above the 20 pence coin.

And what about the opposite, the 20 pence coin is below the one pence coin.

Let's do a little check.

Let's see if you've got above and below.

How could Izzy describe the position of the 50 pence coin, 20 pence coin and 10 pence coin using above and below? Pause the video and give that a go.

Let's see.

Lots of answers you could give here.

You could say the 50 pence coin is above the two pence coin.

Yes it is.

You could say the 20 pence coin is below the one pence coin.

Yes it is.

And of course you could say that the other way round as well.

The one pence coin is above the 20 pence coin.

And what about the 10 pence coin is below an empty square.

Yes it is.

And again, you could say that the other way, an empty square is above the 10 pence coin.

So lots and lots of possible answers there.

Well done if you got any of those.

There is another word that Izzy could use to describe the position of some of these coins.

Okay, so we've had left and right, we've had above and below.

What else? What word could we use here? The 50 pence coin and the 20 pence coin have coins to their left and their right, so we could say they are between two other coins.

Can you remember that word, between? Let's add that word.

Let's start practising it.

So the 50 pence coin is between the five pence coin and the one pence coin.

The 20 pence coin is between the two pence coin and the 10 pence coin.

Yes it is.

Okay, Izzy is going to play a game with Jun.

She will build a tower of cubes without showing them to Jun, and then she'll give Jun instructions to help him build the same tower.

This sounds like fun, and you're going to play this soon.

If Jun's tower matches Izzy's tower, they win the game.

Jun will turn around so that he cannot see the tower.

No peeking, Jun.

Turn around.

There we go.

Thank you.

Now Izzy can build her tower.

And that's the tower she's built.

Jun can't see that.

We can see that, Jun can't see that.

Okay, so we know that it goes, grey, blue, yellow, red, purple.

He doesn't know that.

She's going to describe the tower.

First she needs to make sure that Jun has the right colours.

She's going to tell him the colours, but not in the right order, that would be too easy.

So she's going to tell him that you need yellow, grey, red, purple, and blue.

And he's got those cubes ready.

Now it's time to start describing.

Remember Jun, no peeking.

Now Izzy can start her instructions.

She says this, "Place the blue cube above the red cube." That's a good start.

I like that.

Yeah, you can see that on her tower, can't you? The blue cube is above the red cube.

Like that.

Okay.

"Place the purple cube below the red cube." Okay? Yep.

We're getting closer.

"Place the grey cube above the blue cube." Yes.

Oh, and then we need to do something, don't we, here, can you see that, it's not quite right.

Izzy's this tower goes grey, blue, yellow, red, and Jun's tower goes grey, blue, red.

So we need to do one last thing.

Have you got a good word for that? "Place the yellow cube between the blue cube and the red cube." Perfect.

Okay Jun, you can turn around.

And then they can compare their towers.

Are they the same? Yes, they are.

So they win.

"Our towers are identical.

They're exactly the same.

We win the game." So welcome to Izzy there.

She used some really good position words there.

Let's have a check.

Izzy and Jun have played the game again, Izzy needs to give one more instruction to Jun so that he can complete his tower, and make it identical to hers.

What should Izzy's instruction be? So really take your time, see what you can notice.

That's what good mathematicians do, they notice things.

What should Izzy tell him? Okay, pause the video.

Did you spot it? So in Izzy's tower it went blue, yellow, purple.

And in Jun's tower it's going blue, yellow, grey, so we need that purple in there.

And we could say, place the purple cube between the yellow cube and the grey cube.

That's one possible way that we could fix that.

Would you like to play that game? Yeah, it looks fun, doesn't it? Let's go.

So you're going to now play Izzy and Jun's game.

First, build a tower and give instructions to your partner.

And remember, no peeking.

Then, swap roles so that you have to follow their instructions.

Use the words in the box to help you.

So you're going to use above, below, and between.

And try and make sure that in every game you use all three of those words at least once, okay.

And as Izzy has reminded us, "Don't forget to tell your partner which colours they need," but remember, don't tell them in the right order.

Right, have lots of fun with that and I'll see you soon.

Pause the video.

Welcome back.

Did you have fun with that game? Did you manage to use all three of those words? Did you manage to make some identical towers? Well, here's one of many, many examples.

You could have given these instructions to your partner if you wanted them to build a tower like this.

Your tower is probably different to this.

This is one example.

Place the blue cube above the purple cube.

Place a yellow cube between the blue cube, and the purple cube.

Place a red cube below the purple cube.

And place a grey cube between the purple cube and the red cube.

We've come to the end of the lesson, and this has been so much fun.

I hope you've enjoyed it too.

I certainly have.

In today's lesson, we've been reviewing using mathematical language to describe position.

I don't think any of those words were new to you today, but it was a useful reminder.

You can describe position using the mathematical language, like left, right, above, below, and between.

And you've used all of those words in today's lesson.

So let's have a look at some examples of those words in action.

We could say the five pence coin is to the left or the 50 pence coin.

The 50 pence coin is between the five pence coin, and the one pence coin.

The two pence coin is below the 50 pence coin.

And remember, we can say that the other way round as well.

So the 50 pence coin is above the two pence coin.

The one pence coin is above the 20 pence coin, and the 10 pence coin is to the right of the 20 pence coin.

That's one of many, many ways you could describe those coins.

Well done on your achievements, and your accomplishments today.

You've been absolutely fantastic.

You can give yourself a well-deserved pat on the back.

I hope I get the chance to spend another math lesson with you in the very near future, because this really has been lots of fun.

In the meantime, have a wonderful and successful day.

Take care and goodbye.