Category Archives: Numeracy

Sumdog Competition – Spicy/Hot – Numeracy – Term 4 – Week 10

Good morning everyone

If your child has access to their Sumdog account, they can take part in our whole school competition.

The competition starts at 9am today and will finish on Friday at 3.15pm.

The teaching staff will keep an eye on the leaderboard and can offer coins to their class for encouragement!

Congratulations to last week’s winner – Alfie H P6 

Good luck!

Map Skills

Hopefully you have spotted the task on the grid about drawing a map. Map reading and map making are both very important skills to learn. Sometimes the biggest challenge is understanding a map as surprisingly every map is different. So our first challenge is to read and understand the map we plan to use. I found a number of different maps in my house and have added these below for you to look at.

What information do they all have?

What similarities do they have?

Can you spot any major differences?

Is there anything that is unique to each or one map?

See below for some map making and map reading tasks, feel free to do more than one task. I have added some already sent into Seesaw so thank you to those pupils who have shared these.

Task 1 – Describe a journey 

Describe the journey you would normally take to a friend’s house/shop/school or favourite place from your home. If possible, pace it or walk it to help you describe it easily. You could draw it out as a map and add some noticeable buildings or points of interest to your map or you could make a fantastic leaflet or map like the examples below.

Use words such as –  

  • left/right turn 
  • First/Second junction 
  • Walk/drive/run 100m (or relevant)

 Task 2 – Using a map 

Choose 5- 8 cities or towns in Scotland and try and work out how far these are from your home. You could use Google maps, a real map or similar and record the data collected in a table.  See below for an example already posted to Seesaw.

 Answer these questions –  

  • Which city/town is closest? 
  • Which city or town is furthest away? 
  • Can you write any more questions for someone reading your table? 

 Task 3 – Online mapping activities 

Try out the games and activities on this website to learn more about maps. 

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/mapzone 

Virtual Trip Part 2 – Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen #PeterheadPrison #MacDuffAquarium #DayatPittodrie

Hey Everyone!

I hope you have enjoyed the first two days of our Virtual Trip around Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen please find below the original sway with NEW DAYs added.

As always let us know how you get on!

Mild – Numeracy – Coin Design

How many different types of coins, denominations, do we have in the United Kingdom?

Which coins were missing?

Listen to this song to check which coins were missing from the last song.

Keep practising how many 1ps, 2ps, 5ps and 10ps you need to add together to have the same amount as a

  • 5p
  • 10p
  • 20p
  • 50p

If you are confident with this practise counting how many 2ps, 5ps, 10ps, 20ps and 50ps you need to add together to have the same amount as a £1 or a £2 coin.

 

Templates to download, should you wish

The Royal Mint – Different Types of Coins

design-your-own-50p-activity-sheet

nhs-50p-design

Year-2-Autumn-Block-3-Measurement-Money

Tuck Shop – Spicy – Numeracy – Money

I made a tuck shop at home.  I picked out items to sell and created my own price list.

I then opened the shop up to customers (my family).  They were to pick one item and then pay using a £1 coin.  I then had to work out how much change they would get back.

I used the ’empty number line’ method to work out their change.  After doing this a few times I became more confident and could then use this method in my own head.

I then extended my shop, adding more items and creating a new price list.

During this game the customer was allowed to pick a few items.  I then had to add them up to see how much the total cost would be.  To do this I separated the numbers into tens and units to make the addition part easier to visualise.  Again, this process became easier in my head after practising on paper first.

There are so many strategies we can use to add and subtract.  See how many you can use for this task.  You might have a favourite method.  Let your teacher know it! 😊

Virtual Tour Week 2- Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen #FORALL

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to Week 2 of our Virtual Trip Experience, I hope you had a great time at Edinburgh Zoo last week, this week we are going to visit a different tourist attraction around Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire every day!

The sway below shows Monday and Tuesdays visits, on Wednesday I will post a new set of visits for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to get your hands on.

Money Money Money Numeracy Hot Interactive Lesson.

Hi Everyone,

Some activities to try out all related to Money.

 

Have you tried out our PIzza Hut Challenge on the Numeracy Grid ?yet if not here it is : You will need both documents.

Pizzahutmenu  and Pizzahutchallengecards 

A game for all the family have you played our Budget Challenge Game on the Numeracy Grid?  This is great fun for all the family.

ManagingMoney

Fancy being the FIrst MInister for the day? Have a go at spending £10,000 !!

First Minister Budget Challenge

Lots of great activities to try out let us know how you get on!

Mild Numeracy – Giving Change

Mental Maths warm up!

Keep practising counting in 2s, 5s and 10s to help you count amounts of money quickly.

Many of you have set up your own shops at home.

Your customers might not bring the exact amount of money so you need to learn to give them change.

Warm up – Take away facts!

You might like to try some of the questions on these sheets

Calculating change from 20p

Giving change at the toy shop – this sheet begins with smaller amounts of money and then moves onto larger amounts

Check the change given from £1

Reading for information about money

Learn about the banknotes designed by the people of Scotland for RBS.

Sumdog Competition – Spicy/Hot – Numeracy – Term 4 – Week 9

Good morning everyone

If your child has access to their Sumdog account, they can take part in our whole school competition.

The competition starts at 9am today and will finish on Friday at 3.15pm.

The teaching staff will keep an eye on the leaderboard and can offer coins to their class for encouragement!

Congratulations to last week’s winner – Alexander P6 

Good luck!