{"id":5809,"date":"2020-01-27T11:34:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T11:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=5809"},"modified":"2020-01-27T13:32:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T13:32:51","slug":"outdoor-maths-area-and-perimeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=5809","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor Maths – Measure, Area and Perimeter"},"content":{"rendered":"

P4-7 braved the chilly day today to pop outside to have an outdoor maths session.\u00a0 The focus was measurement, perimeter and area.<\/p>\n

P6 & 7 measured the length and breadth of our football pitch in metres.\u00a0 They recorded their length as 17m by 30m. They calculated that the perimeter\u00a0 was 94m and the area was 510 metres squared.<\/p>\n

P4 & 5 measured the length and breadth of the paving slab, which was 60cm by 90cm.\u00a0 We calculated the perimeter as 300cm (3m).\u00a0 The area was 60 x 90 cm = 540cm squared. ( Some took an extra challenge of working in decimals: 0.6. x 0.9=\u00a0 0.54 m squared)<\/p>\n

As it was so chilly, we popped back inside and worked out the area and perimeter of our P.E. hall.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

We then applied real life problem solving to work out costs of placing a border around the hall\u00a0 and the price of carpeting the hall (differentiated by price per metre).<\/p>\n

# Successful Learners<\/p>\n