Blog by Tag: Maths

The children had the opportunity to show off their counting skills this week.  They are very proud of themselves!

To consolidate our learning of properties of different shapes, the pupils played in small groups a game of ‘What shape?’

By asking yes or no questions, the children had to solve which shape the other person had selected.

After playing the game, we discussed which were the best kind of…

Fruit lollies were a perfect choice to make on our warm week in nursery A.  The children used cutting skills to prepare the soft fruit and distributed them into ice lolly moulds, after calculating how much fruit we would need.  After that the children practised their pouring by adding water before…

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!”