Our new topic Grand Designs involves all the children in using maths skills to solve a series of design challenges.
During the past week the children have worked together to measure the contents of our classroom in centimetres and metres. This has involved choosing the correct tools for measuring.
A tricky challenge was working out the area of our classroom using square metres. The children worked together to make a series of metre squares, which they then laid down on the floor and counted so that we could find out the area of our classroom. This proved to be quite a tricky challenge to solve, especially as the squares had to be a metre all the way round.
A super context for learning which allows you to apply your measure skills which you have learnt through your maths lessons.
How do you find the area of a shape? Your classroom?
This looks like a very interesting start to your Grand Designs context. What tools did you use to measure your classroom?