numeracy – P3b

Yummy Symmetrical Biscuits

Primary 3 made delicious biscuits using what they have been learning in weight so far this week. We weighed out all of our ingredients using a kitchen scale. We needed 250grams of plain flour, 125 grams of butter and 60 grams of icing sugar. We also needed some milk and vanilla extract. Mrs Noble and Mrs Ross cooked them in the oven.

This afternoon we decorated them with icing and some lovely toppings and we had to try to make our biscuits symmetrical. We found this tricky because some of the toppings kept sliding off because the icing was not dry.

We think our biscuits are delicious and all the teachers said they were lovely.

Building Castles Using Weight

Primary 3 watched a video all about castles in Scotland. We found out that castles are so strong because the strong and heavy bricks are always on the bottom.

We worked with a partner to design our own castles. We had to cut out all the different sized bricks. There were four rules that we had to follow. The most important one was that the heaviest bricks had to be on the bottom and we were not allowed to put a heavy brick on top of a lighter brick.

Our finished designs look really good and they are all different.