Blog by Tag: Maths

Year 3 have been studying shapes, both 2D and 3D,. They have been learning the names and properties of the 3D shapes. They built their own 3D shapes with cubes, counting faces, vertices and edges.

In Maths we have been learning about repeating patterns and if you make it a repeating pattern it has to have a rule. This included using two, three or four colours to create an AB, AABB or ABC pattern. The children were great at making the pattern repeat many times and added more colours as a…

This week our older Nursery children have been using the Construction blocks to help them with their Maths work. They counted and identified numbers 1-5. For each number they then built a tower using that number of blocks to make it. Some children when they had added too many blocks or not enough…

As part of their maths work on position and direction, Year 1 have been looking at ordinal numbers. They had great fun taking part in different races and working out the position they came in. What an active maths lesson that was!
 

It was National Numeracy Day this week. In recognition of this Year 2 took part in an active maths session. They had to work with a partner to solve different calculations that were placed around the hall. They all showed wonderful teamwork and enjoyed talking about how they were solving each…

In Maths this week we have been learning how to group objects and share them fairly. The children put this into practise using biscuits. In partners they were given a number of biscuits to share evenly. We learnt about wholes and halves and how to share using the rhyme, one for you, one for you.…

This week our older Nursery children have been using the water tray in Maths to learn about full and empty. 
We also talked about when a container is light or heavy. Lots of children were able to fill a container until it was full and tell us it was heavy. We saw some excellent team work form the…

Year 4 used counters, place value charts and part whole models to think carefully about the value of each digit in a number. They have worked particularly hard on understanding how many tenths and hundredths are in one whole. 
 

Now that Year 2 have finished their maths unit on multiplication and division it is time for them to start practising their times table knowledge at home too. Today the children were introduced to the TT Rockstars app and had great fun creating their rockstar avatar before playing the game linked…

This week in Maths we have been learning about tangrams and how to create our own. We learnt how to rotate a shape to fit it into a picture. We then made our own animal tangrams. 
 

Year 2 have been using the pan balances to find out what mass objects are in cubes. They chose an object from the classroom and made it equal to the opposite pan balance. When they were balanced, they had to count how many cubes the mass was and were quite surprised at some of the…

Year 2 have been learning to measure lengths and heights using centimetres and metres. They used this to place some objects, of their choice, in order by length. First of all they measured the objects and recorded the results. They compared the measurements to find the shortest and longest lengths…