This week in Crookfur we have been enjoying taking part in activities for Maths Week Scotland

We have been looking at lots of different jobs that involve many different aspects of mathematics. Some of which surprised us such as the importance of mathematics in fashion design or how an athlete like Sir Chris Hoy would use maths within his training to improve his performance or how the engineers and manufacturers of his bike would use mathematical formulas and solve problems to help improve the speed of the bike and also to look at the cost of materials and the weight  of the bike.

 We used natural materials collected from the woodland to design a wide range of calculations and challenges for our partners. Each material was given a value and we had to solve the problems set out and work out the value of different items. We used a range of skills and operations including multiplication, addition, subtraction and division.

 In P.E we looked at division with remainders where we had to physically get into groups and see which numbers would divide evenly and which numbers would have remainders. We also came up with the calculation that would show what we were doing.

 Within our IDL topic titanic we used lots of maths skills designing and creating models of the ship. We looked at 3D shape, scale and measure.

 Here is some of the things we love learning about in Mathematics and Numeracy……

“ I love everything about maths.”

“ I like doing maths because I like the challenge of solving problems.”

“ I enjoyed it when we did P.E with maths.”

“ I use to find division hard but now it is easy.”

“ I liked using materials to make different calculations.”

 “I have enjoyed learning more about division and linking it to my times tables.”

” I am now able to divide thousands, hundreds, tens and units.”