{"id":750,"date":"2014-02-12T08:16:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T08:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/?p=750"},"modified":"2014-02-12T08:16:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T08:16:07","slug":"puzzling-mental-maths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/2014\/02\/12\/puzzling-mental-maths\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzling Mental Maths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Primary 6b have been very busy this week working on their mental maths skills.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lots of us find mental maths tricky so we wanted to find a fun way to develop our mental strategies.\u00a0 To help with this we worked in groups to practice our fraction, multiplication and division skills.\u00a0 To make this more fun, we worked in small groups to try out some new mental maths puzzles.\u00a0 These included loop cards, tarsia puzzles and jigsaws.\u00a0 We found this fun because we are working together and discussing different ways of solving problems.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few weeks we will continue practicing these skills and have some fun along the way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primary 6b have been very busy this week working on their mental maths skills.\u00a0 Lots of us find mental maths tricky so we wanted to find a fun way to develop our mental strategies.\u00a0 To help with this we worked in groups to practice our fraction, multiplication and division skills.\u00a0 To make this more fun, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/2014\/02\/12\/puzzling-mental-maths\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Puzzling Mental Maths<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7565,164],"tags":[3834,8,170],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-primary-6-classes","category-school-news","tag-active-maths","tag-maths","tag-primary-6"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}