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Last week we were very busy  exploring different areas of maths. We explored money, tally marks and number.  On our village walk, we took tally marks to show how many vehicles we could spot. We have been playing with real coins in our class hairdressers and playing lots of different number games with partners.
What were we learning?
To tell the time using ‘quarter to’ and ‘quarter past’.
How would we know if we were successful?
What did we do?
Miss McLaughlin will soon send home a record of what we have been learning. We can use this to work at home on something that we find tricky or as a checklist to show if we demonstrate our learning at home.
We are also beginning to use our knowledge of time and number to build up a timeline of important Victorian dates.
Until next time…
Primary 3 & Miss M 🙂
Today we had an assembly to share our learning during Maths Week Scotland.
Mr Sneddon joined us from Virtue Money to share with us the importance of Maths and Numeracy in every day life and for our future career paths. Virtue Money donated a free piggy bank and key ring to all our children to remind us why it is important to safe our money. A big thank you to Mr Sneddon for supporting us with our Developing the Young Workforce learning.
Our classes shared with us their learning during Maths Week which was all connected to their Interdisciplinary context for learning.
Congratulations to our Sum dog Champions for their achievements in the Maths Week Scotland Competition.
Class winners:
Congratulations to P7 who were the winning class, they came 377th out of 3556 classes across Scotland.
The following children relieved a certificate for completing all 1000 questions in the competition:
Amen came first in the school and 320th out of 78624 children across Scotland. Lucas came second school and 323rd out of 78624 children across Scotland.
Congratulations to our Living our Values this children this week.
For Maths week Scotland P2C have been looking at money.
We have been identifying and describing different coins and then putting them in order from lowest value to highest.
We have also begun to add money and are working towards using money connected to our Circus topic.
LI: Large numbers
SC:
I can… say large numbers
I can…. name the places of place value up to 6 digits
I can…. sequence numbers
This week for maths week we have been playing a variety of games to help us work with large numbers. We played ‘Biggest Roller’ where we used the dice to roll 6 digit numbers. We also played ‘Sequencing Numbers’ where we had 5 4digit numbers and we had to order them from the smallest number to the largest number. We used the dice to play’ Roll and Stick’ where we rolled three digit numbers. Then we had to name the correct place value for each of the numbers, then we added the numbers so we could practice carrying correctly. We applied these skills in our topic when we sequenced large numbers on a timeline to life in a Burgh in the 16th Century.
This week we have been involved with the school in Maths Week. We have been learning about numbers, sorting, counting and language of measure. Miss Young helped us to make a game in the nursery where we had to search for numbers up to number 10.  Miss Young hid them all around the nursery and then we had to find them.  We were able to identify all the numbers we found! We then searched all around the school in the library, the classrooms and found lots and lots of numbers in Mrs Campbell’s  room! In the nursery we have been using our loose parts (shells, cork, keys, stones) to sort and match objects. We set up special maths table to learn about long/short, big/small, time and money. On Friday we joined the school for assembly learning how important maths is a subject and how we can save our money.
Primary 6 have enjoyed tackling some maths challenges this week as part of Maths Week Scotland. We have had some tricky challenges in the mornings to get our mathematical brains in gear and have taken part in the Sumdog Maths Week Scotland Contest. We are very proud of Amen for reaching 203rdplace on the leader board out of over 70, 000 students!
As part of our Jacobites topic, we have been working on chronology and timelines through making our own timelines of the Jacobite Rebellions. We also applied our addition skills to work out how many soldiers fought in some of the battles.
We are continuing with our focus on addition in Maths Talk. Here is a brief explanation of the different mental addition strategies we use in class to help you support your child at home:
Out of 2692 classes, our results so far are:
Come along and join us!
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