Today the P4s got together to complete some maths work outside. We worked in pairs and we had a sheet with lots of different questions on it.
Firstly we had to find right angles, and shapes in our environment,next we had to time how long it took us to walk around the school – then estimate how long it would take us to walk round three times.
We also had to work out some fractions and find examples of tiling and symmetry.
We had to measure using strides and hand spans – we worked out that our answers were different because we have different sizes of hands and strides.
It was interesting to try to use our maths skills in different places, some of the questions we found quite easy but others were more tricky. We were glad that we were working in pairs this time! 
This term we have been learning about division. We know that dividing means to share equally.
The tables we can divide confidently by are the 2,3,4 and 5.
Today we had to make games which would practise our division skills. We were in our co-operative groups and we had lots of brilliant ideas.
Here we are designing, planning, making and testing our ‘division games’:
By Joe Reid
We did tessellation. I like it, you are not allowed to overlap, its tricky because you have to draw a line up the paper then cut the line and sellotape it back together.
Next you add another zigzag line and cut it too and sellotape it again. You have to draw around it on paper and fill the entire page.
It’s tricky to begin with and then it gets easier. You can not leave any white on the paper. You can do it with any kind of paper.
Its very fun
In our co-operative groups we made a tessellation instruction poster and gave it to P6/7 to see if they could follow them. They gave us feedback about our posters and gave us scores on Attractiveness, what you need and method. We think they enjoyed making tessellations.
Primary 4/5 took part in the Wee Sleep Out Sumdog challenge with another 871 classes from around Scotland. They finished 18th and Murry came 31st out of 19,115 pupils which is a fantastic achievement!
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