Blog by Tag: Maths

This week in Mathematics, Year 5 have been learning about coordinates.

To show our understanding, the children played a game of Battleships against one another.

Grace 5B ‘Battleships was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed playing against my friend Erin.’

As part of our learning about food in nursery this week we have made our own wraps.  We had a variety of fillings to choose from to create our perfect taste sensation.  We had to think carefully about how much filling to use.  Too many and the wrap will fall apart, too few and the wrap may be…

Year 5 has been investigating 3-D shapes.

We were tasked with finding out how many faces, edges and vertices each 3-D shape had.

The children enjoyed working in pairs and handling the different shapes.

Taking a break from our revision, Y6 took their maths learning onto the field. The children worked in small groups to hunt down the different clues around the field. Each answer would lead them to another clue which they needed to find. It was a race against time to solve all 20 clues! 

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We have been looking at division. To show how this works we used counters to illustrate how it looks.

Scooping, pouring, investigating patterns, communicating, teamwork, scientific enquiry were just some of the skills being used in this small world play session in Nursery A this week.  The children were engrossed in their play for a long time.  One boy commented “Look, this snake is stripy but…

This week we are playing with shape puzzles and simple jigsaws in our continuous provision. Today we matched a range of objects to their shadows concentrating on the shapes we could see. We also played a matching numicon and numeral game together. 

The children in Nursery A have been showing off their knowledge of shapes this week.  We have been exploring different shapes and today collected blossom that has fallen from our beautiful nursery tree, to fill shapes and create different shapes on our own and in small groups.

The children have been practising counting up to 3 objects. We have used dots on plates to help the children to subitise up to 3 and show matching fingers. They have also used their counting skills to count objects around them. “Look, I have 3 daisies!”

Our pirate adventure in nursery began on Monday afternoon when we went on a treasure hunt outside and followed clues to find hidden treasure.  We used a treasure map of our outdoor area and listened to clues using positional and directional language and following a route.  On our journey we found…

In pairs, the children answered a range of calculations.

Once they were solved, the children sorted them into different groups. They focused on any patterns they could see and different ways they could be grouped together.

Luca 5A - ‘I found the activity fun as we got to work in…

As a year group we started our time learning by creating a horizontal number line from 0-12 and transferring this to a circular number line to represent a clock face. The children then used their 5 times table knowledge to add the minutes to the clock. We recapped over their Year 1 learning of…