Class 10 have been exploring angles and shapes in their geometry maths unit. They learnt about acute, right angles and obtuse angles. Then used this knowledge to learn about the different triangles. To consolidate their knowledge they completed some practical work sorting and ordering angles as well as using geo-boards to make a variety of triangles.
Year 4 have been working hard this year on their Times Tables – some even choosing to attend Times Tables Club after school on a Thursday.
Each session starts with a bit of healthy competition – playing each other on TTRS! Then we finish off by getting up and moving, playing times table games or dancing along to BBC Supermovers!
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.
Children in Year 2 were having to really think about partitioning numbers to work out how to win the game! Amazing competition!
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!
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 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 4 have been working so hard this week on division in maths. They started using their times table knowledge to divide, then looked at dividing using counters and finally moved on to using short written methods.
Here they are using counters to divide (in their favourite way – writing on the tables). The children worked to divide the counters into equal groups of either 2/5/4/8/3 to answer the questions. Things got particularly tricky when we had to exchange a ten counter for ten ones.
They’ve worked so hard, I’m sure they will be dreaming of division this week!
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
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.
Today Year 4 have been focusing on using practical equipment to extend their maths knowledge. They built numbers using counters, base 10 and took part in a 4 counter challenge!
Despicable Decimals! (I think that is how some of us feel about them).
Decimals is a topic the children really first encounter in year 4 and it can be really difficult to get our heads around.
We are working super hard and have looked at what is a decimal, writing decimals and converting fractions (tenths and hundredths) into decimals.
We have also been dividing 1 and 2 digit numbers by 10 and 100 – here we are practicing in our groups.
We are all working so hard and hopefully they won’t be despicable for long!
This week in Year 4 the children have proven to be super mathematicians and I am very proud of them all.
Using their knowledge of fractions from last term, the children have been identifying tenths and hundreds as fractions. They have utilized their mathematical vocabulary when discussing how to answer questions and it is wonderful to see their confidence growing.
Later in the week, the children moved onto representing tenths as decimals in a variety of ways such as, using number lines, place value charts and concrete apparatus.
This week in Year 4 we have been focussing on column subtraction, which can be tricky when you need to exchange numbers. To help us we practiced working out calculations while physically exchanging our counters. It was even better as we were allowed to use the tables as huge whiteboards!
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