On Wednesday, we were all very excited to find the Dragon had left us another letter and a present!

In his letter, the dragon told us that he had heard that we are learning about measurement in maths, and that he wanted to set us a challenge.

He sent us some sheets of paper with an outline of the Giant’s hand. In the bags were magic beans.

First, we had to ESTIMATE how many beans would fit on the Giant’s palm (we knew from our Halloween maths that an estimate is a sensible guess). We had to write down our estimates in pen so we could not change them later!

Then we arranged our magic beans on the Giant’s palm to find out the actual number. Finally, we worked out the difference between our estimates and the actual number, using our calculators.

After that, we drew the outline of our own hand on the Giant’s and did the same again, only for our hand this time.

We really enjoyed the Dragon’s challenge and hope he will send us some more.