We’ve been very busy developing and practising our skills in Maths. We’ve been using some problem solving strategies to help us to complete our work independently and more effectively. Some of the strategies we have learned are to draw a picture to help us see what’s happening, to act things out to understand how it can be done, to work together to come up with a plan particularly when playing strategy games, to guess, check and improve to encourage us to predict what kind of answer we should find and to look for a pattern to help us to solve problems quickly. We can’t wait to demonstrate our skills on Wednesday at our Patpal Afternoon.

The Squares, Diamonds and Circles Maths Groups have been busy learning to create and use tables, bar charts, pie charts, Venn diagrams and Carroll diagrams. We used computers to record our data and create different types of chart. The Diamonds have also been learning how to measure with a tape measure – it was great fun but very tricky! The Squares have been investigating what a multiple is – they asked to make a poster about multiples for their homework next week! The Circles have been using Rekenreks to practise their addition skills – they all loved using them and said it really helped their maths! The Triangles have been looking at what multiplication means and are learning and using their times tables facts, in addition to consolidating their knowledge of numbers to 100!