Mathemagicians
Calculating distance and diameter!
Last week UKS2 were calculating the diameters of each planet, as well as the their respective distances from the Sun. The maths skills used were knowledge of ratios and conversion of km to cm. Then then drew the inner rocky planets in their books; however, the outer...
Owls enjoy finding out about capacity and volume
Article 13: You have the right to find out things and share what you think with others, by talking, drawing, writing or in any other way unless it harms or offends other people. Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go...
Calculating Volume
Today the Beeches have been calculating the volume of cubes and cuboids. They used the mini multi-link cubes to help them actually see how volume worked. Everyone agreed that this concrete aid helped to show how volume worked and they could see the maths behind the...
Train snacks!
Nursery are focusing on trains this week so we made some edible collages of trains using a variety of savory ingredients. Before we started, we looked at images of trains (high speed, Metro and steam) and discussed the different shapes within them. Article 28: You...
Predicting shadow length in UKS2
This term UKS2 have set up an investigation into shadow length and measure the rate of turn in degrees of planet Earth. We have taken 3 measures at 3 consistent times this morning and from this we predict that we can calculate the shadow length and position at set...
Measuring and comparing size in the Dragonflies
The children have enjoyed a week of exploring size and measuring this week. They Compare each other, putting themselves in order of size. They then measured each other using sticks (same sized) and recorded their findings on the whiteboard. Later in the week the...
A Trip to the Cafe…
This morning in Tulips we have been using our money knowledge to calculate prices at the Windy Nook Cafe. We have added amounts of money together to find our total spend. Then we had to use subtraction to find our change from £20. We have enjoyed using our knowledge...
Owls investigate weight
Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go to school to the highest level you can. This week in Maths Owls have been looking at weight. They have been using bucket scales to compare weight looking at objects that are he...
Shape hunt!
Nursery were amazing at finding shapes in the environment today! They used some fantastic language to explain how they knew what each shape was. For example, "Its a circle because its got one curved side!" and "Circles don't have any vertices!" Article 28: You have...
Norman the Numicon Robot
The children have enjoyed exploring making amounts in different ways. Norman the numicon robot helped is think the process through. Many of the children were able to explore lots of different ways of making the same amount. They children were able to explain their...
Making numbers with Numicon
This week the children have used Numicon to find different combinations of 5, 6 and 7. We chose the piece of Numicon that we needed to make and placed different Numicon pieces on the top. We then checked we had made 5, 6 or 7 by counting the number of holes. We...
Owls use non-standard units to measure
Article 13: You have the right to find out things and share what you think with others, by talking, drawing, writing or in any other way unless it harms or offends other people. Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go...