{"id":5711,"date":"2017-09-13T13:56:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T12:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/?p=5711"},"modified":"2017-09-13T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T13:03:10","slug":"bhs-maths-week-scotland-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/2017\/09\/13\/bhs-maths-week-scotland-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"BHS &#8211; Maths Week Scotland 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Maths Week Scotland<\/h6>\n<p>Welcome to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.scot\/mathsweek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maths Week Scotland<\/a>, a brand new initiative to help everyone in our nation see maths more positively.\u00a0 Our aim is\u00a0for everyone to experience the benefits, joy and beauty of maths in exciting new ways.<\/p>\n<h6>Mindset<\/h6>\n<p>To encourage all students to think of maths as an interesting and brilliant subject, we have been watching some short maths videos:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aXja9_wAitw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Video 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oXr23dTVU0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Video 2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h6>Junior School<\/h6>\n<p>This week our junior school have been enjoying some problem-solving tasks in Maths. If you fancy having a go,\u00a0try calculating\u00a062 x 33 using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/math\/math-for-fun-and-glory\/vi-hart\/vi-cool-stuff\/v\/re-visual-multiplication-and-48-2-9-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinese Multiplication<\/a>\u00a0(watch the first\u00a030secs of the video only).<\/p>\n<p>In addition all S1 &amp; S2 students have been given SUMDOG logins to allow them to compete in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sumdog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sumdog &#8211; Maths Week Contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6>Senior School<\/h6>\n<p>Senior students have also been working on problem-solving skills involving NRich tasks like <a href=\"https:\/\/nrich.maths.org\/2005\/note\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Square of Numbers<\/a>. They have also been enjoying some <strong>very <\/strong>competitive games of <a href=\"https:\/\/kahoot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kahoot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maths Week Scotland Welcome to Maths Week Scotland, a brand new initiative to help everyone in our nation see maths more positively.\u00a0 Our aim is\u00a0for everyone to experience the benefits, joy and beauty of maths in exciting new ways. Mindset To encourage all students to think of maths as an interesting and brilliant subject, we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/2017\/09\/13\/bhs-maths-week-scotland-2017\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BHS &#8211; Maths Week Scotland 2017<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-us"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5713,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions\/5713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}