In Maths we have been learning about fractions of a number line, the 8 times table and functions machines. Yesterday we took that learning outdoors.
Maths
Category: Numeracy & Mathematics
Money
Today Miss Morrison and the children were exploring money. They were making amounts and calculating change. The activities were challenging and fun!
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Treasure!
Yesterday we were revisiting co-ordinates, grid references and compasses. To support and reinforce our learning we each designed a treasure map.
Today we used our maps in pairs to challenge each other to find places on our maps and to create directions using our positional language knowledge.
Information Handling- Outdoor Maths
We have been exploring information handling and looking at ways of collecting, sorting and displaying information. Today we took our learning outdoors.
First we organised ourselves into teams and collected various natural items.
Then we sorted our items into different sets using our own criteria.
Once we had done that we created tables to display the items we had found.
Then we used our tables to create and answer questions on what we had found.
Maths Journals
In maths we spend a lot of time exploring and discussing our thinking and the ways to approach different calculations and aspects of maths.
Today we started our P4 maths journals. These will allow us to track the different mathematical concepts we have explored as well as letting us record how to approach each concept.
They will contain a mix of teacher guidance and our own ideas and approaches. We started by revisiting subtraction today.
Patterns in Nature
Yesterday we went exploring in the woods to see what different patterns we could find in nature.
Volume Fun
Today we have been learning about volume in maths.
‘Volume is about how much space liquid takes up.’
’1 litre equals 1000 millilitres.’
’2000 ml = 2l’
‘You can also measure in pints.’
’I liked using measuring jugs.’
’We used our maths journals to write about what we learned.’
Mental maths fun
Collecting the resources for our outdoor activities today was great fun…and a little challenging. We had to find sticks and compare their lengths before deciding if they would be ‘branches’ or ‘twigs’, then we collected some buttercups from the buttercup kingdom, as one of the children named it to day!
We then went on to play a team game involving mental maths skills which also helped develop our understanding of exchange and place value.
We had three great bank managers for the buttercup bank, the twig bank and the branch bank. It was fabulous to hear their customer service skills develop so naturally as we played the game too!
Outdoor number investigations
Today we worked in teams and played lots of games to explore all the different ways we can add numbers together. I think our favourite strategy is using friends of ten. The discussions we had together were brilliant and we all learned to listen and give everyone a go at trying to find a solution.
We started off the session today searching for pentagons and arranging ourselves into the shape of a pentagon. Some of us were surprised to learn that a pentagon doesn’t need to have equally lengthen sides to be a pentagon, just five straight sides and five corners.
After playtime we continued our work from last week on time. We matched digital times with analogue times as you can see in the photos below.
