Primary 2 have been busy during maths time this week.
Some children used an interactive SmartBoard Sweet Shop game to add coins to make a total.
Others used play coins and a price list in the class shop. Some children practised their mental addition skills by completing a “Five minute Frenzy” grid while others played maths apps on the i-pads. You have been very focused on your learning, well done P2!
Today P1a explored a variety of 3D shapes.
P1a have had lots of opportunities to learn to add through play. Today I was delighted to see that the children were able to apply their skills to copy and complete some addition question on their own!
We have been working extremely hard on learning about fractions of shapes and fractions of numbers. One group was working on quarters of regular shapes and the other groups were using their knowledge of times tables to help them work out thirds, fifths and tenth of numbers. Some of the children also used cubes to help them find the answers.
P4/5 have been learning all about 3D shape. Today we investigated nets of different 3D shapes then built cubes and cuboids from nets.
P1a enjoyed using some Heinemann Active Maths resources to explore the concept of adding on 1 more.
P1b have been learning to add 2 groups together. Today we played double dice addition and used cubes to help us. 12 cubes and a die have been sent home as part of the homework this week.
Players: 2
Rules: Roll the die. Count out the correct number of cubes. Repeat. How many cubes do you now have altogether?
We have been learning to write number sentences eg. 2 + 2 = 4 You can support your child by encouraging them to write the number sentence after each game of ‘Double Dice Addition’.
Here are some photographs of us playing this game as a whole class and with a partner.
Click on the link below to play the interactive addition game. This game should be tablet friendly.
http://www.iboard.co.uk/activity/Simple-Addition-Stories-721#maths-year1numstrategy_yearreception
Primary 5 had great fun using our latest resource in Mathematics, Izak9. Our challenge was to use the digits 1-9 to make a Magic Square. In a Magic Square all the rows, columns and diagonals have the same total. We had to work co-operatively to work out the answer in our teams. We were all very proud of our hard work and delighted to be able to produce a solution.
We also tried making Addition Steps. The total of each column had to be the sam even with the different number of steps. We managed to produce several different solutions in our teams.
Why not try some Magic Cubes, or Addition Stepping yourself. You can do them on paper, or use some of the interactive sites available.
I have re-attached this term’s homework just incase the paper copy has been misplaced. P1 Homework Overview Term 2
Maths Homework
This week P1 will be exploring estimation and counting within 20. Please take some time to play the estimation games. Unfortunately this is not tablet/ mobile friendly.
