P4-7 braved the chilly day today to pop outside to have an outdoor maths session. The focus was measurement, perimeter and area.
P6 & 7 measured the length and breadth of our football pitch in metres. They recorded their length as 17m by 30m. They calculated that the perimeter was 94m and the area was 510 metres squared.
P4 & 5 measured the length and breadth of the paving slab, which was 60cm by 90cm. We calculated the perimeter as 300cm (3m). The area was 60 x 90 cm = 540cm squared. ( Some took an extra challenge of working in decimals: 0.6. x 0.9= 0.54 m squared)
As it was so chilly, we popped back inside and worked out the area and perimeter of our P.E. hall. Some children worked in whole numbers, whilst others worked accurately to 1 decimal place. The children produced a scale drawing of the measured area using cm squared paper.
We then applied real life problem solving to work out costs of placing a border around the hall and the price of carpeting the hall (differentiated by price per metre).
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