Phew! Just like that we have once again celebrated all things math and reminded pupils why it is so important and essential skill to have and a topic to learn! Math permeates all aspects of our life and the aim of Math Week in to show everyone just that! 

Monday

On Monday the big class got stuck into a math themed escape room! Once we recapped what the entire point of an escape room is, we then moved on to flex our problem solving brains to figure out the challenges and find our way out. I must say, even the so-called ‘easiest’ ones certainly weren’t anything to be sniffed at! 

Tuesday

On Tuesday the lower class decided that the price of a weekly food shop was just too much to handle at the moment so thought they could combat it by making their own butter! They pupils shook their wee wrists silly (after using some essential math skills to measure out the ingredients) and chilled it overnight to enjoy the butter of their labours! 

Upper school participated in a Live Lesson all about Math in Art and focusing on finding symmetry in nature. Once this was done, we made our own symmetrical monster by using our cutting out skills and replicating the patterns on both sides of our Monsters. 

Wednesday

Lower school managed to combine their math with their P.E and used time and estimation skills to guess how long they would take to do certain tasks before pairing up and timing each other to see how long it actually took them in the end. 

While upper school were busy having a great time at Stranraer College Campus as you can see in the previous blog post!

Thursday

On Thursday, lower school decided to try their own symmetry using butterflies. Not sure which class wins in the symmetry wars but I can’t deny they made some very beautiful butterflies!

While the upper class took their maths outdoors (while the sun still stuck around…) for some times table games outside! 

Friday

Now, we had big plans for Friday with Live Lessons, but then the weather decided to cause a power cut which Kirkcolm Primary building just could not handle. While we all managed to complete our Big Maths before being cut off, it seemed that our math week celebrations truly got stopped in their tracks! 

Regardless, we have had a fun week and we have loved getting to express our joy for maths in many different ways. Just because Math Week is over, by no means stops this from happening in the classroom every day.