We have been learning how to use money and all the different credit cards and how they can trick you and take more than they should that is called interest. They have to be very clear about how much you will pay back. We have really be enjoying it.
Category Archives: Maths
P6 and 7 Build a Tetrahedron
On the 17th February a group of people came in and built a tetrahedron their names were Osian, Amanda and Linda Jane we built it step by step. I really enjoyed doing the tetrahedron it was really high it was 4 metres wide and 4 metres long.
Comics on 3D Shapes
Charley And I made a comic on the life of a cube in maths. The class all made one too! Well let me tell you what happened in our story. It started with a cube that didn’t know anything cool about himself, Then one day he read a book called the life of a cube. He had found out a lot about himself and he wanted to tell the whole of Cube Land. So he made lots of posters and put them up in all of the shops! Then one day when lots of people read the posters and he became famous and now he is loved by everyone, Because he told everyone that he had 6 Faces and 12 Edges he also had 8 vertices’s!
Lunar Park Problem Solving
P7 created a lunar theme park. The year is 2050 and man is colonising the moon. We made our own theme park with rides etc.
We then had to calculate running costs.
After that we had to decide on an entrance price and work out what profit we made.
We then had to deduct running costs to see if we had made a profit or loss.
Maths In Room 4 The Red Circles
Today the red circles were doing decimals and we were measuring things and writing the decimal for it and we all enjoyed it! 😀
Healthy snacks class survey !
Our class is in charge of taking forward Health and Wellbeing for Eco Schools. Today Joshua and I went around the classes and asking them what would make eating fruit more exciting and encourage more children to buy fruit from the tuck shop. Josh and I thought Smoothies and Fruit Kebabs would make it more exciting. There were quite alot of great ideas and most people voted for smoothies.
Websites for learning to tell the time
Learning about time can be challenging. Here are some websites that you can try to help you get better at maths involving time:
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/clock_shoot.htm
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/on_time_game1.htm
http://www.thatquiz.org/tq-g/math/time/
http://www.primarygames.com/time/start.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/shape_space/time/play.shtml
http://www.mad4maths.com/telling_time/
If you find any other good sites, please email me with the link – HSlimmon882@nlcschools.org.uk
Authors Live Events
To develop our literacy and numeracy skills, Miss Slimmon has registered our class to watch some forthcoming Authors Live events through the Scottish Book Trust. We will be watching and listening to a broadcast called Murderous Maths with Kjartan Poskitt on Thursday 1 December.
To celebrate Burns Day, we will watch poet Liz Lochhead on Thursday 26 January.
There are still some events that have already been broadcast that you can watch at www.bbc.co.uk/authorslive.
