P7.25 enjoyed putting their mental maths skills to the test in our loop card challenge! They worked collaboratively to get the cards in the right order by answering different mental maths questions. There was lots of discussion on how to solve problems and a variety of different methods on how to get to the answer were revealed!
This morning we took part in our House Olympics. Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin took part in a range of events and worked together to time their teammates and order decimals.
Well done to all pupils who competed in the sprint, distance and relay races as well as the burpees and throw/catch challenges.
One of our favourite parts of the day in 6.22 is our Daily 5 Maths Challenge. This is included in our targets and we enjoy working together with others in our group to solve the questions.
The topics in the Daily 5 vary through the week and allow us to challenge ourselves by applying our knowledge to problem solving questions or provide continuous revision from earlier topics in Second Level.
Fibonacci have been advancing their fractions knowledge this week after developing skills in converting fractions and decimals into percentages.
Some excellent discussions and jotter work were produced across the board!
In our maths, we have been developing our confidence in place value and handling decimal numbers. For our Monday Mission we were set the ultimate decimal challenge of multiplying 90 decimals by 10, 100 or 1000 whilst timing ourselves.
After completing the challenge we peer assessed our answers and gave ourselves a final score.
Well done to our top 2 finishers who both scored 90/90 and completed the challenge in under 7 minutes!
This week in Maths we have been working on Data Handling, we used Google Sheets on our Chromebooks to input a variety of different data and present it in pie charts, line graphs and bar graphs.
We explored using the x and y axis to plot different points, practiced inputting statistics and observe how changes impacted the graphs.
Today in 6.22 we started the week with our Active Maths activity – Bet your Knowledge!
Firstly, we place our bets for how confident we are in certain areas of maths including addition, rounding, fractions, algebra and multiplication. Then we are given a set amount of time to answer each question and show our working on our whiteboards. Following this the correct answer is revealed and we see how many points we gain as a result!
We have enjoyed the inclusion of new rounds including general knowledge, capital cities and challenges!
Today in 6.22, we spent time using our maths journals to show the new concepts we have learned and our individual mathematical thinking.
In rounding, we have really enjoyed using our ’rounding rollercoaster’ to help us. And our maths vocabulary is something we use daily in our problem solving, word problems and mental maths.
Our journals are bright, colourful and full of information which helps us with learning new maths concepts.
In our maths, 6.22 love a challenging problem and we recently adapted our maths wall to incorporate Chilli Challenge problem solving cards.
These cover all areas of the curriculum and test our knowledge of applying our maths knowledge to solve word problems as well as identifying patterns and relationships.
Once we have completed each question we then pin it back up onto the wall so others can compare their answers to our own and we can also share our working as to how we solved the problem with everyone in the class!
As part of Maths Week Scotland, we have been learning about Alan Turing a famous mathematician, best known for his role as a code-breaker in World War II.
Here are some of the facts we discovered about him:
Our finished profiles have now been displayed on our maths week board and we hope that other classes in the school will learn more about him from reading our work!
