Blog by Tag: Maths

To start our new maths topic about 2D and 3D shapes, we sorted lots of different shapes into groups.  Can you tell what our sorting criteria were?

In maths we are learning that multiplication and division are inverse operations.  We know that we can multiply any numbers in any order but this is not true when dividing.  We have also learnt that good mathematicians like to be organised and one good way to organise our thinking is by using an…

This week we took our first look at the operation of division.  Here we are exploring division as 'sharing'.

We used multi-link cubes to take a first look at multiplication.  We learnt about multiplication as 'groups of' and made groups of cubes before writing the number sentences.

Year 6 enjoyed a lovely afternoon in the sun, working on two maths-based treasure hunts. 

Year 3 have been learning all about division this week.  We learnt that dividing means two things - grouping and sharing.