The week of the 11th September – 18th of September was Maths Week in Scotland. Our class had an excellent week taking part in lots of maths related activities.
We played in a Sumdog competition each day to try and get into the top 1000 classes. We exceeded our own expectations and came an amazing 454th place out of 4900 classes. The top three children in our class were:
- Aimee
- Joseph
- Beth
We also brought in our own device to use as a compass and took part in a treasure hunt activity outside using our compass app and directions to guide us.
At the end of the week, in groups, we made up a short game to teach the P2 children. We did a carousel activity where we got the P2 children into groups and each of the P7 groups taught them a different game. It was a fun experience teaching P2!
We were challenged to ‘walk in the shoes’ of a child from Morija to help us understand the impact water shortages can have upon people.
First we were challenged to collect facts about average water consumption per person within different countries. We had to walk for a mile to retrieve all the facts. Every time we collected a fact we had to carry another dictionary.
We discussed the activity and the possible reason behind the journey and we realised that the journey was half the distance a child from Moroja has to walk to collect water from the stream. The dictionaries symbolised education and the facts that whilst the child is collecting water they are not in school.
Although we found the task fun because we were outside and it was active we discussed how hard it would be to do this multiple times a day and how it could affect a child’s health and well being.
We were then challenged to use our data handling skills to collate the data and create a graph displaying the results. We were shocked to discover that the average consumption of water in litres within the USA was 595 litres whereas in Ethiopia it was only 5litres. The UK’s rate was also very high. We discussed how unfair this was and that the over consumption and wastage of water needs to be addressed.
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