{"id":22301,"date":"2022-09-28T15:20:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T15:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=22301"},"modified":"2022-09-28T15:20:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T15:20:34","slug":"discovering-maths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/09\/28\/discovering-maths\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering Maths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week the children have been learning about maths and having fun trying out all the different ways this can be done.<\/p>\n<p>The construction block area is always in good use and after we had read a story about 10 little monsters \u00a0the children decided to build their own spooky castle \ud83c\udff0 \u00a0we have been working out sizes long ones \u00a0for this wall and we need shorter ones over here !<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/09\/BBF09179-27A2-4E51-BA42-DDDDCED2B2EA.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22302\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/09\/BBF09179-27A2-4E51-BA42-DDDDCED2B2EA-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have been counting \u00a012345 as we have posted the counters through the block . We have discovered that some items are too big to fit through the hole.<\/p>\n<p>At the tinker table we have been practising our measuring skills looking at the numbers on the ruler or tape and placing the items in order of size. This one is the\u201d biggest \u201c. We even had a look round the nursery to compare sizes of different resources. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/09\/2D8821BD-D188-4636-8D1D-42A8AC52FAE8.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22304\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/09\/2D8821BD-D188-4636-8D1D-42A8AC52FAE8-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOur loose parts area was full of resources and inspiration . We had a look at a book called Hannah\u2019s Collection and this gave us great ideas. We then made our own designs using loose parts \u201c I will use the round buttons and make lollipops\u201d and I can use sticks to make a shop. \u00a0We had some lovely creations.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/09\/B8B13185-55B0-45AC-934C-0A90C4C786AB.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22306\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/09\/B8B13185-55B0-45AC-934C-0A90C4C786AB-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the children also enjoy technology they had turns following the instruction cards to make our \u201cbee bots\u201d move in different directions. \u00a0Press this button one time to move forward or this button to go backwards. There is four buttons on mine \u201clook it can go this way \u201c \u00a0we learnt that this means it\u2019s moving to the right or to the left.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/09\/81DF98F2-5C0F-4ED0-8806-730FCAB0AB6A.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22307\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/09\/81DF98F2-5C0F-4ED0-8806-730FCAB0AB6A-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have all enjoyed our day in the discovery room. Let\u2019s look out for shapes and sizes on our way home !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the children have been learning about maths and having fun trying out all the different ways this can be done. The construction block area is always in good use and after we had read a story about 10 little monsters \u00a0the children decided to build their own spooky castle \ud83c\udff0 \u00a0we have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/09\/28\/discovering-maths\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Discovering Maths<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446891,2508,54,185],"tags":[447097],"class_list":["post-22301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-technology","category-expressive-arts","category-news","category-numeracy","tag-discovery-room-maths"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22301"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22315,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22301\/revisions\/22315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}