Blog by Tag: Maths

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…

This morning, we were estimating where numbers went on a blank number line to 100.

We have been busy learning about ones, tens and hundreds. Today we made 100 using as many different ways as possible. We had to show that 100 was 10 groups of 10. Look how creative we were in the pictures below! Next we’re looking at 1,000… 

We had fun getting into time order. Some of us had am times and others pm. We found it wasn’t as easy as we first thought. 

We enjoyed exploring about capacity in Y1. We predicted how many cups it takes to fill different containers.

We have been learning about angles outdoors today. We looked at angles around us and then made angles with our bodies. Using sticks, we made pictures and named the angles correctly using the words acute, obtuse and right angles.

Following our first SATstests of the week, Year 6 enjoyed another afternoon outside in the sunshine. This time we were solving maths problems to collect clues to work out an anagram - very complicated but great fun too!

We are learning about capacity and volume in maths. Today we started this new topic with a practical session finding the capacity of lots of different containers. We used coloured water to make it easier to see. We estimated for each different container and our estimates got better as we went…

We made equal groups and made a repeated addition number sentence to work out the answer. 

Year 4 have been flexibly partitioning decimals. We have been doing this in a very practical way using place value counters. We had to come up with 5 different ways to partition each decimal.

We enjoyed using rulers to measure in cms.