Written by Digital Leaders – Findlay Thorburn
P1-7 travelled to the Academy for a Bubbly Maths workshop session today.
Bubbles the clown used string loops to make bubbles of different diameter.
We practiced using our handy body measure to estimate a metre length. Ava lily is the perfect metre from her left shoulder to her opposite right arm outstretched.
We were shown how to visualise and estimate how many metres the hall was in length, breadth and height. Ruby was asked to count out the number of metre length balloons it took for each dimension.
Bubbles used a square of metre length balloons to let us see a ‘square metre’. We then used a cube made out of metre length balloons to see a cubic metre. This helped us to estimate how many it would take to fill our hall.
As we had arrived before anyone else, we got a special session where we estimated how many of our class we could fit into the metre cubed balloon shape. We managed to fit all 12 of us present into the shape!
Bubbles created bubble shapes using open sided 3D shapes. Again, we had a sneaky, close up view of this before the other schools arrived 🙂
Ms. Whorlow and Bubbles used a metres cube of string dipped in bubble mix to create a bubble to cover pupils in a bubble case.
Throughout the session we learned to make ‘marvellous mistakes’ that help us learn.
Here is a link to the Bubblymaths website:
https://www.bubblymaths.co.uk/
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