Mrs H gathered in our fidget spinners 🙁 🙁 🙁

TO HELP US WITH A DATA INVESTIGATION!!!!

We had to take turns to spin the spinners, time how long each spin lasted and record the information.  We changed hands and the angle at which he held the spinners.  Once we had gathered the data and filled in the tables we displayed the information in a bar chart.  We swapped with another group and they had to interpret our graphs.   We had questions to answer relating to mean, mode, median, mean and range.  (click for more info on these terms)

What the pupils said:

I thought it was a good balance of fun and maths. P5

I found everything amazing and really fun. P4

At first I thought Mrs H had banned all the fidget spinners from us! P6

I thought it was a good idea to add fidget spinners into our maths. P6

I thought it was really fun because we were using toys from home for maths. P4

It was tricky when you were trying to choose the scale for the graphs. P5

I liked when a whole bunch of people got to bring in spinners and we could see what different types there was.

This is the beginning of a maths topic on information handling.      We’ll be sure to be focused right up until the end of term!

Having discussed the variety of ways and range of media used to present data, I can interpret and draw conclusions from the information displayed, recognising that the presentation may be misleading. MNU 2-20a

I have carried out investigations and surveys, devising and using a variety of methods to gather information and have worked with others to collate, organise and communicate the results in an appropriate way. MNU 2-20b

I can display data in a clear way using a suitable scale, by choosing appropriately from an extended range of tables, charts, diagrams and graphs, making effective use of technology. MTH 2-21a