Primary 4b have enjoyed opportunities to apply their maths skills across the curriculum this week as part of Maths Week Scotland. The theme of Maths Week this year is ‘Maths in Motion’.

In PE the children looked at ways in which maths could be used to improve  performance and keep beating those personal bests.  In station one, the children were using a stopwatch to time each other running around a short circuit, this enabled them to count how many seconds were in between each person in the group and work out who had the best time. At station two, the children were using metre sticks to measure how far they could jump.

In STEM, the boys and girls had a chance to learn about the role of an astronaut and listen to a real life astronaut reading a story from Space! Mathematicians and maths are integral to space missions. From calculating trajectories to loading cargo, calculations keep everyone safe and enable humans to explore further than ever before. The children worked together to create their own rockets to launch.