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Perimeter Perimeter…

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Perimeter – the length of the outside edge of a shape . . .

The Perimeter Song – Watch it two or three times, you’ll know the words, and you’ll never forget what perimeter is again.

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The Perimeter Song – Click Here!

Within our measure topic, we need to be able to calculate the perimeter of different shapes and objects. The game below will test your perimeter knowledge. Level 1 is quite simple, but it gets harder as you move through the levels. Let us know how you get on playing the game.

Perimeter Game – CLICK HERE!

See you tomorrow – for some more work with “Perimeter . . . Perimeter”
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Reading Scales!

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REMINDER: Personal Projects are due tomorrow! (Friday 26th April 2013)

REMINDER: P7 Flag Football – GROUP A tomorrow – REMEMBER your PE kit!

As part of our measure topic in maths, something we need to be able to do is read scales.

Some scales are simple to read; but what we’ve found out are that others are a bit more tricky.

Play the games below to see how you are at reading scales:

Reading Scales 1 – CLICK HERE!
Reading Scales 2 – CLICK HERE!

Looking forward to seeing your projects over the weekend!
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

World Maths Day

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REMEMBER: Tomorrow is World Book Day – wear your pyjamas and bring your favourite book if you wish. We’re also looking for Fairtrade packaging.

Today is WORLD MATHS DAY. For the event, we completed ‘The Millimetre Challenge’.

Within our groups we had to develop the skills of estimating and measuring both millimetres and centimetres. We found that this was a difficult task, as millimetres are such small units of measure.

   

We had to agree on a way of estimating, without using a ruler; this was the first tricky task. Working together, we also had to know how many millimetres were in a centimetre.

   

Finding the objects outside was a bit of a scavenge, but 10 minutes just gave us enough time to complete the task.

   

When measuring, we found out that some groups had excellent estimation skills. Other groups weren’t far off.

We were at a tie-break situation at the end, with three groups estimating 3/6 correctly. We decided the winner by checking the difference in each of their answers.

Well done to group 3: Morven, Beth and Finlay M who were our WINNERS!

Play in the World Education Games by clicking on the link below:
WORLD EDUCATION GAMES: CLICK HERE

See you tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice