Our Trio schools have been having a very busy time participating in the Scottish Maths Week. The Scottish government has launched a brand new initiative to help everyone in our nation see maths positively. The aim is for everyone to experience the benefits, joy and beauty of maths in exciting new ways.
The children have had a full timetable of maths focussed activities:
- Sumdog – national online maths competition
- Manga High Numeracy Ninjas competition
- Outdoor learning for numeracy/maths working with decimals
- Maths Madness – whole school number fun with songs etc.
- Maths games afternoon kindly attended by parents to help children enjoy maths through play
- Careers in our community speed interviews; where friends and family joined us to discuss how maths has a role in the world of work
We were joined by Susan McCourty, our local post mistress, Ali Cerexhe & Robert McQueen from our local lifeboat, Paul McQuillan – bus driver, Mr & Mrs Orr-Ewing – estate management, Miss Whorlow – electronics engineer and Miss Kerr – teacher. All shared how maths is needed in their jobs.
Friday saw the culmination of our maths week. The children engaged in a carousel of activities. They used their creativity to design maths promotion resources for the Scottish Maths week competiton; focussing on why we like and need maths in our life. This was expressed through posters, songs, poetry, art and rap by the children.
We were then given the opportunity to apply programming and robotics. The children used Lego WeDo to construct models and then use coding blocks to make the models perform actions. We had tilt aeroplane propellers spinning, footballer’s legs kicking and crazy birds twirling by the end of the session.
Everyone all loved their shared day with Leswalt & Kircolm on Friday, bringing an end to this important initiative. They enjoyed socialising and working together to produce fantastic maths work.
