Blog by Tag: Maths

Yesterday Y3 took advantage of the good weather and took our maths lesson outside. We estimated and measured the capacity and volume of various containers. By accurately measuring the capacity of the cup we used to fill the other containers; we were able to work out the actual capacity of larger…

We have been learning all about angles so today we went outside to look for and take photos of angles in our outdoor area. We then tried to make different angles using our bodies. Finally, we made pictures with sticks and twigs and labelled each acute, obtuse and right angle. 
 

Year 6 took advantage of the lovely weather once again, to get outside and practise their mathematical skills. They had to work out the answers to the word problems, then use their answer to help them locate the next question. Quite a challenge!

We enjoyed measuring capacity using cubes, soil and water.

We had fun measuring the mass of objects and comparing them.

We go outside whatever the weather. This week we have been using sticks to make shapes.

We are learning about dividing with remainders and today played a fun game called Division Grab. We grabbed a handful of cube or counters and the put them into groups of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8. We got lots of points when there were lots of remainders. We found out that some numbers (like 23) gave us…

This week, we have been using rulers to measure. We have centimetre rulers and metre rulers. Here we are finding objects taller/longer or shorter than a metre. We have also measured the school hall and found out that it’s 15m long!

This week we have been practising counting in 8s and have really enjoyed the 8x table song.

Today, we were set the challenge of creating different rectilinear shapes using 12 matchsticks. We had to make different shapes and then work out the perimeter of each shape.

We have been investigating arrays in our new maths topic of multiplication and division.  We wrote x facts to go with the arrays and some of us also showed the link between multiplication and repeated addition. We were very creative in choosing which objects we used to make our…

Today we have been sorting our 3D shapes.