Numeracy week

Primary 5 have ben learning all about volume this week. We can now define the terms volume and capacity. We know that capacity is the maximum a container can hold.

We were outside on Tuesday estimating and measuring volumes using water. We also got to do a maths treasure hunt with multiplication sums. It gave us letters and we had to arrange the letters to spell out a word. It was ‘measurements’.

In class we have been practising using measuring jugs and reading scales, we know that we need to work out what each interval in the scale represents.
We have also been working on problem solving and word problems for volume. We created our own word problem for our friends and the teachers, some were really hard.

Everyone has been learning 2 facts for Mrs McIntyre. They are 6×7=42 and 6×9=54.

In between volume and problem solving we have also been doing our Gimme 5.
We have been learning how to do decimal points in our chimney sums; we know that after units there is a decimal and a tenths column.

We have also been focusing on numbers all around us. We all wrote a summary on the numbers that we use. We know that we need numbers to tell the time, to cook, to watch T.V, to buy things, to go to clubs and to get up in the morning. Some of us wrote about what we do in our day and how we need numbers to do some of the simple things in life, like cooking meals and driving, even just waking up in time for a job, school or something special. We also know that we need to manage our time and think about the duration of our activities and clubs. We all use in numbers in games that we play. We know how important maths is to us!

On Friday afternoon we had time in the hall to work with Mrs McIntyre on maths activities, we didn’t get a chance to complete them all so we will do that after our long weekend and post pictures on our class blog.

Maths week was a great week, we learned a lot and had so much fun.