This week has been maths week.
P2/1 were lucky to have three visitors!
Abby’s Mum is the owner of Abby J cakes and she told us how she uses maths in her job.
We had great fun learning about using money to buy the ingredients to make a cake, counting the ingredients into the bowl, turning the oven on, and lastly, making sure we shared the cake equally with all our friends! We came up with some fantastic flavours too!
Nola’s Mum worked as an environmental scientist. She told us all about ‘data’ and the numbers she looked at to make sure the water was clean. We loved her diagram to show how it worked and used our mental maths to see if our water would pass the test! If our number was too big, then the water wasn’t clean enough. We had good fun playing the game.
Norma visited us from the library. She told us how she used numbers in her work-spending money for the library and telling the time. We loved the story she read to us too.
We have had lots of fun learning maths outside. We learned about counting items and showing the numbers in different ways. Our favourite was the maths trail. We worked with partners to find the clues.
