Today saw the awards ceremony for our Silver and Gold winners in the annual University of Strathclyde Maths Challenge. The four pupils attending worked extremely hard on what was a gruelling challenge, obtaining fantastic overall scores. As a school, we are very proud of their achievements.
On Tuesday afternoon, some of our P7 pupils had the chance to visit Williamwood to compete in a Cluster P7 Maths Challenge. Working in teams with pupils from Carolside and Netherlee, many tricky problems had to be solved. All pupils had a fantastic time and should be very proud of their performance. Special mention to Caragh, who was part of the winning team!
Yesterday, a selection of our P6 pupils had the opportunity to compete in the annual Williamwood P6 Cluster Maths Challenge. The pupils were put into mixed teams, and worked alongside their peers from Carolside and Netherlee. They were challenged by a variety of different stations, undertook the 12 Card Challenge and completed in the ever-popular Maths relay.
Much fun was had by all, and the pupils maths knowledge was definitely evident. Special congratulations must go to:
Harris, Jennifer and Erin, who finished in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd finishing teams!
The P7 Year Group is participating in Virgin’s ‘Make £5 Grow’ scheme. The project will help pupils to build their enterprise, mathematics, team building and financial skills. The P7 children will be selling goods to pupils from the other classes all this week at break times and lunchtimes. Prices range from 10p – £1 per item.
Williamwood High School Cluster P7 Maths Champions!
Ross, Andrew, Niamh and Cameron beat teams from Carolside and Netherlee to be crowned P7 Maths Champions at the cluster competition at WWHS on Tuesday 7th June. Congratulations – we are all very proud of you!
The school are holding a P2-P7 Numeracy Curriculum Evening
on Wednesday 25th November 5.45 – 7.20pm
All welcome!
Next week we are holding our annual STEM week. All the children are looking forward to exploring and experimenting. Our Science Fayre will be on Friday the 28th March from 1.30pm. Please come along and try out some of the workshops for yourself. Click here for further details of next week’s events. We would like to thank the Parent Council for supporting us to put on many of these events.
Can you explain how these tricks work?
Can you make up you own similar trick?
For a real challenge – can you use algebra to explain how these tricks work?
Try each set of instructions at least two or three times with different numbers. Notice what answer you get each time.
| 1. | Think of a number | ||
| 2. | Add 4 to it | Add 7 to it | Add 5 to it |
| 3. | Double the result | Multiply the answer by 3 | Multiply the answer by 4 |
| 4. | Take away 6 | Subtract 9 | Subtract 8 |
| 5. | Halve the result | Divide the answer by 3 | Divide the answer by 4 |
| 6. | Subtract the number you first thought of | ||
| 7. | WHAT DO YOU GET? | ||
| 8. | Now try again with other numbers and see what you get | ||
In a competition of 1428 entrants, the following pupils achieved an award at the year’s Primary Maths Challenge.
Cami was awarded a silver certificate and Reagan and Nadia achieved a bronze certificate. The competition requires the students to solve three sets of problems and challenges over the year. Well done to the other pupils who also took part in this. We hope to enter this competition again next year.
Have a go at one of the problems and post your answer. Good luck!
A water tank can be filled by any combination of three different taps. With the smallest tap the tank can be filled in 20 minutes. With the middle tap the tank can be filled in 12 minutes. With the largest tap the tank can be filled in 5 minutes. How long does it take to fill the tank with all three taps running. Explain your reasoning.
Read all about the very exciting ‘Clyde in the Classroom’ project that the Primary 5s have taken part in. You can find it in the ‘Life at Busby’ section on the website, or by clicking the link below:
