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Interdisciplinary Learning, Maths & Numeracy, National Maths Week 2017, Primary 1

Maths week in P1W!

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Learning intentions:

  • We are learning to sort, collect and display data.
  • We are learning to collect and display information.
  • We are learning about tally charts and pictographs.

Success criteria:

  • I can talk about my favourite toy and ask my P7 buddy about their favourite toy.
  • I can say what type of toy I have (category) and put a tally in the correct place on a chart.
  • I can contrast and compare our favourite toy results with the P7’s favourite toys.
  • I can answer questions about the information that I have collected and displayed.
  • I can say how I get to school and contribute to a class pictograph.

In P1W this week we have been focusing on developing our information handling skills. We have learned about tally charts and pictographs and we have been able to apply our learning to our IDL lessons on toys.

We enjoyed sharing our favourite toys with each other and hearing about our P7 buddies favourite toys as well! We created a tally chart and marked our toys in the correct area. We then did this with our P7 buddies and compared our results. We found out that in P1W we liked cuddly toys the most but our P7 buddies liked figure toys the most.

We also spoke about how we get to school each day. We collected this information and made a class pictograph chart. We then made another one electronically, using Education City, about our favourite colours.

Well done P1W!

 

Maths & Numeracy, National Maths Week 2017, Primary 5, Second Level

Maths Week Scotland in P5C

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As part of Maths Week, we linked our learning with our IDL context ‘The Rainforest’ . Early in the week we were learning about where in the world the rainforests are, using maps and atlases. We were able to link this to outcomes within Shape, Position and Movement.

I can use my knowledge of the coordinate system to plot and describe the location of a point on a grid.

MTH 2-18a / MTH 3-18a

L.I. We are learning about position and movement

S.C.- I can identify an object on a map

-I can describe its location in relation to the eight compass points

-I can create a grid and give instructions for how to describe or find a position on the grid

We practised giving each other directions,  making half, quarter and full turns and relating these to angles – some people were brave enough to be blindfolded and allow others to direct them!

Using our knowledge of the eight compass points, we wrote out directions for how to get from one point on the map to another. We practised plotting and finding coordinates on a grid and this allowed us to locate places on maps when we were finding out about where the rainforests exist.

Later in the week we were able to create our own grids and plot coordinates for others to find. We have been trying to keep practising using positional language whenever we can – during our bowling session this afternoon someone commented that their bowling ball had gone a bit too far to the North West!

 

Maths & Numeracy, National Maths Week 2017, Primary 7, Uncategorized

Coordinating Coordinates with P7/P6

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Learning Intention
We have been learning to explore the use of coordinates to plot points, and describe positions and movements on a grid.

Success Criteria
I can use coordinates to locate a point on a grid I can use coordinates to describe and locate a unique point on a grid
I can make journeys on a grid, following instructions about the coordinates to visit.

This week is maths week and we’ve been working on coordinates.

In coordinates we’ve been identifying the coordinates of objects on a grid.We also made our own grids.We wrote down the coordinates of objects around and island. Then we applied these skills to create our our own graph and created our own island. We did negative and positive coordinates. We had to identify the coordinates in which the objects were placed on a grid and we swapped with a learning partner to find our coordinates. We had great fun doing this as a challenge.
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