The week we will be focusing on the 7 times table.
We will be using this video to develop our abilities to quickly and accurately count up in 7.
We will also be working on developing concrete and pictorial aspects of the 7 times table.
Pupils should continue to work on the recall of all multiplication facts at home as this reinforces their learning within school.
Identifying remainders is an important skill when dividing. It’s really important that we can see the number and understand where the remainder comes from. Throughout this week we will be looking at division by 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
We will be using concrete materials, drawing pictures, counting and many more strategies in order to reinforce this skill.
The rules below helps us to recognise if a number can divide equally. At the moment we are working on identifying numbers within 100 which divide equally by 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. This will help us identify when we should have a remainder.
To practise this at home.
Choose any number and encourage pupils to consider if it is even, adds up to 3, ends in 0 or 5. If not then it will have a remainder when divided by 2, 3 and 5.
For example
This number will divide equally by 3 because 2+5+5 = 12. It end in an 5 so it will divide equally by 5. However as it is an odd number it will have a remainder when divided by 2.
Exploring with KNEX
Challenge 1 – build a tower
Challenge 2 : build a catapult
On Thursday morning our pupils took part in a orienteering challenge. They had to use maps with coordinate points to find the hidden questions.
Pupils worked in small groups to build kit cars and robots. They had to use screw drivers and spanners to connect the plastic and metal pieces. They had to follow complex instructions, applying their understanding of 3D shape to build the various parts.
During the activity there was high levels of engagement despite it being very challenging. There was great team work with different pupils having different roles.
Well done to this team who completed their car in record time.
Primary 5a will be celebrating Maths Week Scotland through a variety of different areas of the curriculum. They will also hear from speakers talking about money.
Pupils can get involved at home by exploring how numeracy skills are used every day.
Perhaps they could help by making dinner – weighing ingredients, measuring volume and time, chopping vegetable into appropriate shapes and measurements, applying knowledge of time to know when dinner will be ready.
Also there is a national Sumdog challenge which they can participate in (logins are in the front of their homework jotters).
All pupils should be revising the 6 times table and applying this in wider contexts.
Pupils should be practising recalling the tables in and out of order.
I also encourage the children to learn the factors of the times tables,
6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 42, 48, 54, 60
I have extended the range of whole numbers I can work with and having explored how decimal fractions are constructed, can explain the link between a digit, its place and its value.
MNU 2-02a
Place Value Playing Cards
– Remove the King, Queen and Jack from the deck, you may also wish to remove the tens.
– Decide on the place value you are working towards for example Thousands.
– You and a partner, select the appropriate number of cards each.
– Shout reveal, you then have 3 seconds to make the biggest number you can. Largest number wins the cards played.
I.e. you have 4, 2, 7, 1, once revealed these numbers would be reordered to make 7421 (seven thousand, four hundred and twenty 1).
This can be adapted to within any place value, similarly it could be about the smallest value created.
Online Games
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/place-value
Primary 5a started our topic Scottish Wars of Independence. Pupils have started by asking their questions.
This week we answered two questions.
When did it happen?
The responses below found that 4 children said the wars happened in 1200 and the majority of pupils said 2000. The truth the wars happened in 1200s and 1300.
Following this, pupils explored a timeline and ordered the events of the Scottish Wars of Independence. Each event will be looked at individually over the coming weeks.
Where did it happen?
First they tried to find Glasgow on the map.
Then they used atlases to find the cities of Scotland and mark them on a map.
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