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Y3 Maths

Year 3’s Maths Teamwork Challenge!

21st July 2022Miss K. Wilkinson

Today the Year 3 children completed a ‘100 numbers to get students talking’ maths challenge.

The children worked in groups of 3 with a 3 minute timer. They each had a coloured pencil and had to take it turns to find and circle their number and reach the highest possible number as a group.

They soon realised after the first round that there were patterns, but it also prompted maths discussion and team work. Each time the children were confident at beating their previous scores.

This challenge promoted communication, participation, planning, resilience and support which are key values at West Boldon.

Comparing angles

8th July 2022Miss K. Wilkinson

This week, Year 3 have been learning about angles. They know that an angle is where two straight lines meet at a point.

Yesterday, they began looking at the sizes of different angles. They used right angle finders in pairs to measure the size of the different angles on their tables in masking tape, then they labelled each angle with their mathematical name- acute angles being smaller than a right angle, and obtuse angles being greater than a right angle.

Year 3 children measuring the size of angles using masking tape and right angle finders

Telling the time to the minute

23rd June 2022Miss K. Wilkinson

Year 3 have been learning about time in maths. They have learnt how to tell the time to o’clock, half past, quarter past, quarter to and finally to the minute. They found this quite tricky, so today they made a clock together and used multi-link cubes to represent each of the minutes. Then the teachers changed the clock hands and they had to use all of our time knowledge to tell the time. It was even better learning in the sunshine!

Year 3 children taking part in maths outside today

Year 3 fractions investigation!

10th May 2022Miss K. Wilkinson

The children worked in small groups to match the equivalent fractions. This was interesting as the fractions were all represented in different ways.

They had to use their knowledge of unit and non-unit fractions to find all the groups, but also explain and justify their choices.

The children identified there were representations of one half, one third, one quarter and three quarters.

After matching in their groups, they then played a card game whereby they had to pick a fraction and gather all the cards that showed that fraction by only giving away one card each.

This really helped to embed the children’s learning of fractions and deepen their understanding and reasoning skills.

$Year 3 solving their fractions investigation$

Finding fractions of amounts with practical objects

5th May 2022Miss K. Wilkinson

Year 3 have been doing lots of work on fractions of an amount and number. We have been making unit and non-unit fractions using place value counters. In groups we had to read the fraction, identify how many equal groups there were and then make the fraction using counters. This also recapped on our prior learning of place value such as ‘exchanging’ to be able to share equally.

$Children in Year 3 working out fractions of amounts using bar models and place value counters$

Number Day 2022!

5th February 2022Miss K. Wilkinson

Children at West Boldon Primary have been dressing up for digits this week to raise money for the NSPCC. Here’s what each year group have been getting up to…

As part of Digit Day, Year 1 took part in a variety of Maths activities. These included using the Hit the Button game online and also playing our new favourite game, ‘Get out of my house!’, which helped us to practise addition and quick recall of number bonds.

Year 1 children taking part in Number Day activities

Children in Year 2 were having to really think about partitioning numbers to work out how to win the game! Amazing competition!

Year 2 children solving maths problems for number day

We even had time to decorate our own numbers to stick on our outfits. Such number fun!

Year 2 have also been counting their throws and catches of the ball in PE!

Year 2 counting their throws and catches in PE

Year 3 celebrated number day with a problem solving treasure hunt task. They had to find the pieces of a key which were hidden around the room, the location of each key was only revealed when children solved a maths problem. They had to work in teams to assemble the key.

Then, they took part in some solvemoji problems, before writing some of their own for their friends to solve. Some of them were really tricky!

Year 3 children showing off their numbers!

Year 3 children looking for Buddy's key!

Year 3 children creating their own solvemoji problems for their friends

It was great to see the children dressed up today. There was sports shirts, dance tops, year tops, some awesome home made ones and some very clever uses of numbers from movies etc.

With it being digit day we had to get involved with some awesome maths activity. Year 4 took part in a special NSPCC Times Table Rockstars competition (which was available only today on digit day).

We also took on some really difficult solve emoji puzzles. The children worked in pairs and it took some real brain power. They needed to use their logical thinking, their problem solving ability and skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division!!!

Some of them even had a trick element in! Every pair worked so hard and as a class we competed nearly 70 puzzles!

Year 4 taking part in Number Day activities.

Year 6 spent the morning solving maths riddles, decoding and following directions on a compass. We have also solved codes, played countdown and challenged each other in a dice game. We’ve used problem solving and reasoning skills. Year 6 have thoroughly enjoyed the challenge.

Year 6 children taking part in an activity for number day

Class 14 taking part in their tasks for number day

Dividing 2-digits by 1-digit

27th January 2022Miss K. Wilkinson

This week Year 3 started their new maths concept of division.

They used the place value counters to practically create a 2-digit number and then divided it by a 1-digit number.

They drew their own place value charts on the tables in pairs (which made it very exciitng!)

They had to remember to make sure their groups were equal and to share out the tens first and then the ones.

Children solving division problems using place value charts on the tables

Arithmetic Investigation

7th December 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

Year 3 put their mental arithmetic skills to the test today with an NRICH investigation in maths. They had to work in groups to choose a card, solve the calculation, then find the answer on the next card. They were surprised to discover that the cards went round in a loop. They had to be sure to look at the symbols carefully as there was a mix of questions requiring them to add, subtract, multiply and divide. Great investigating Year 3!

Year 3 children working hard to complete their NRICH investigation

One group of Year 3 children's answers to their investigation

Maths Week England

13th November 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

As a school we recognised Maths Week England this week, with each year group completing a different maths challenge. Here are some things we got up to…

Class 4 enjoyed our Maths Week Challenge this week. The children had to create three robots and use the vocabulary big, bigger, biggest to describe them. Some of the children extended their own learning by adding the length of the robots legs, body and head together. It was a tricky task to add three numbers together so they chose to use numicon to help them

Class 4's maths work for Maths Week England

During maths week Class 3 took on the challenge of seeing how many different ways we could sort the houses. The children were really good at grouping the houses and talking about the similarities and differences. Some children even recorded their findings in a list.

Year 3 and 4 recognised Maths Week by taking part in a Times Table Rockstars Competition. They were able to play for 1 hour a day to earn points. The children loved the competitive element and we have some fantastic mathematicians in Lower Key Stage 2!

At the end of the week, the scores were totalled and below are the leaderboards for the pupil totals (top 10 players) and the class totals. Well done to all of the children who took part!

As part of Maths Week England, Year 6 have taken part in fun maths activities all week. We have participated in the daily challenges and worked in groups to solve some ‘magic maths’, where we learnt the magic of number through cards. Great fun was had on Mangahigh as we took part in a live lesson on geometric properties.

Comparing 3-digit numbers using practical objects

30th September 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

Year 3 love a practical maths lesson!

Today they had to compare objects using our place value knowledge, using concrete objects (base 10).

They identified the numbers, made the numbers, and then formed a number sentence using ‘greater than & less than’. Some of the children even moved on to using inequality symbols.

They were then challenged by answering questions such as ‘What is 1,10 or 100 less or more than’ a given number.