Blog by Tag: Maths

Today for Number Day Year 1 and Year 6 joined together to take part in some ‘Active Maths’. Year 6 planned maths games and activities for Year 1 to enjoy.  Everyone enjoyed counting, adding, subtracting, dividing and multiplying in creative ways.  It was fun learning and being active together.
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Year 5 took part in a live STEM session today. They learnt all about what an engineer does and had the privilege of listening to Helen and Drew telling has all about their careers as engineers. They learnt how important science, maths, engineering and technology are and were able to ask questions…

Today we have been learning about measuring length. We have been using non-standard measures like cubes, paper clips, rubbers and hands.  We have measured objects around our classroom using cubes.  We had lots of fun counting the cubes to find out the length and we even measured a row of tables! 
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As part of our number day fun today we made our own ‘Number Museum’.  We worked in pairs and chose a number.  Then we made our number in different ways.  We practised writing it, drawing it and making it using cubes, ten frames, base 10 and Numicon.  Next we displayed all the ways we made our…

We celebrated world maths day with the help of the numberblocks.
We practised our counting skills, counting the objects in the picture, we then used a peg to choose the correct numberblock for the amount.
Our challenge was to try and build the numberblock too! 
 

To celebrate World Maths Day, Y6 spent the afternoon with Y1 helping them to play Maths games and develop their counting and adding skills. 

For the week of World Maths Day Reception were learning about 3D shapes. We looked at a cone, pyramid, cube, cuboid, sphere and cylinder. The children played guess the shape by putting their hand in a bag and feeling the shape without looking, found 3D shapes in our classroom and also made…

On World Maths Day Year 5 learnt about how important maths is in everyday life. They looked at famous mathematicians (men and women)  from the past and how they have helped shape the world we live in. 
They also designed their own board games with lots of maths questions on to be answered…

KS2 took part in the NSPCC Times Table Rock Star challenge today. They all tried very hard to be the winning class with the highest number of correct answers per pupil. The speed and recall of some of the pupils was very impressive! A huge well done to everyone. 
 

Year 3 took part in a TTROCKS Challenge. How many correct answers can they get in one hour? This was a Countrywide Challenge, we did really well.

The Year 2 children have been exploring how to draw and make 2D shapes in their maths lesson. They really enjoyed using the geoboards on the iPads to create their own 2D shapes before attempting to draw them.

In maths we have been finding factors of numbers. We made arrays with counters to help understand this. We learnt that numbers that only have 2 factors , 1 and the number itself, are called Prime Numbers.