Elspeth Hall from the D&G STEM team visited school this morning to provide the pupils with a fun, hands-on maths workshops – and they certainly weren’t disappointed! The workshop was part of our Maths Week Scotland celebrations (although we are a week early due to Elspeth’s busy schedule!).
After a little ice breaker where we had a competition to create as many different sized triangles as we could, both classes got their thinking caps on and had to work together to solve problems and complete challenges using various visual and concrete materials. We had:
- The Engine challenge where we had to sequence the coloured carts of the train in the correct order (this involved lots of maths language);
- The Wizard’s Cat where we had to put 3 magic circles around the cats so they each had their own space;
- Dice Towers were each of the 4 sides had to equal 14 but no number could be the same (think Sudoku using dice!);
- Domino walls where each side had to equal 10;
- And a graffiti wall made up of loop cards where pupils had to match the question to the answer.
The pupils had a brilliant morning applying their maths skills into contextualised problems. Many thanks to Mrs Hall for providing pupils with a marvellous morning of maths!
