At Leswalt, we love cooking and baking, and ‘Maths Week Scotland’ is the perfect opportunity to put into practice some maths learning! This afternoon P1-3 made ‘fifteens’ or ‘rugby slice’. The ‘little class’ counted, measured, shared their ingredients (15 of each) in their groups. They cut the cherries and marshmallows in half , crushed their biscuits, added some condensed milk and mixed together into a sweet concoction. They then shaped their mixture into a log and covered with coconut shavings.. YUM!\u00a0 \ud83e\udd65 The groups chopped their logs into equal parts ready to take home.. look out for these coming home in school bags… if they make it that far.\ud83e\udd2b\ud83d\ude09 Well done Team P1-3! Pictures coming soon!<\/p>\n
Following on the foodie trend, P4-7 were tasked with ordering breakfast food supplies for Mrs Baillie and Mrs Kyle. Waffles, pancakes, fruit, smoothies.. we know how to order a good breakfast!\ud83e\uddc7\ud83e\udd5e\ud83e\udd5d\ud83e\udd6d\ud83e\udd5b And, after brainstorming some items for our shopping list P4-7 set to work! On the Asda website, the boys and girls worked in partners to plan and cost their shops. They were given a strict budget of \u00a360 and soon realised that official coco-pops and buttermilk pancakes were off the cards…\ud83e\udd5e\ud83e\udd63. We were very impressed at how savvy they could be with their shopping. They used calculators to multiply the cost of 1 item by their desired quantity, while being mindful of their \u00a360 budget, they quickly realised that taking advantage of Asda’s ‘rollback’ prices would be a good move! \ud83d\udcb8At the end, they were asked what maths skills they’d been using; ‘decimals’ ‘adding’ ‘multiplying’ ‘money’ ‘budgeting’ and ‘using a calculator’. A busy afternoon applying so many skills!\ud83e\udd13<\/p>\n\n\t\t