Blog by Tag: Maths

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. 
 

Year 6 have been working hard all week, planning and making a range of products to sell at the Christmas Market on Friday. They have used many skills throughout the week and taken on roles including project manager, accountant, advertiser, quality controller and resources manager. Come along to…

This week Year 6 have been introduced to the method of long division. Now we have learned how to solve a long division calculation, we have moved on to thinking about what our answers actually mean, especially if there is a remainder in our answer. For example, if there are 165 people invited to a…

In Maths this week we have been looking at rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100. We first worked out which tens/hundreds numbers our chosen number sat between on a number line and then looked at the correct column to round the number.

We used this rounding rhyme to help us:

‘Five to…