Category: Maths Week Scotland 2019

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Term 1 Celebration Assembly

On Friday we had our end of term Celebration Assembly.

We acknowledged our Awesome Authors, those children who have made excellent progress or achievements within writing.

We also recognised our STEM Superstars, those children who have made excellent progress or achievements within Science, Technologies or Maths.

We recognised our P6 and 7 children who helped out at our recent parent consultations.

We found out that our school has received the Silver Sports Scotland Award. A huge congratulations to our Sports Stars and Mrs McConville.

Our House and Vice Captains set a Maths Weeks Scotland Poster Challenge, and the winners received a prize!

We took part in the National Maths Week Sumdog Competition. Some of children completed all 1000 questions! Primary 3 scored the highest for the school, and Tyler came 207th out of almost 75000 pupils.

Thank you to our Sumdog reps who reminded up about the competition!

We watched a video that showed us all about our learning during Maths Week Scotland.

Congratulations to Calder for winning the house points this term.

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Primary 3 Maths Week

During Maths Week, Primary 3 have enjoyed taking part in the Sumdog competition both at home and in school. The whole class received a certificate for being one of the top performing classes in the school! Well done to Jessica who also received a certificate for ranking in the list of the top 1,000 pupils out of 74,000 pupils who took part!

We have also been learning about the time, looking at both analogue and digital clocks. We have been using what we have learned to recognise the times of events in our day like break time and lunch time. Our next step is to compare the timings of our school day with the timings of a Victorian school day.

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Maths Week Scotland @ PUSCPS

Have a look at our video below to see our learning during Maths Week Scotland.

Our House and Vice Captains set a Maths Weeks Scotland Poster Challenge, the winning designs are below.

 

We took part in the National Maths Week Sumdog Competition.

Some of children completed all 1000 questions! Primary 3 scored the highest for the school, and Tyler came 207th out of almost 75000 pupils.

Thank you to our Sumdog ambassadors for giving out the awards!

 

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P1 – Maths Week

P1 have been exploring money this week.   We examined coins closely to find their value and then had a go at sorting different coins.  We noticed they had different shapes, colours and sizes.   We enjoyed making rubbings of different coins using crayon.

* Home Challenge*

Can you recognise any coins or notes at home?

Can you try to pay for something at the shops using coins?

Can anyone make a shield by joining one of each coin together?

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Club Wild: Maths Week Scotland

This week at club wild we looked into maths in nature as part of Maths Week Scotland. We thought about how we see maths in our daily lives and explored mathematical patterns in nature.
First we looked at bilateral symmetry and thought of the  plants and animals that we could split into two matching halves. Leaves, beautiful butterflies and even us.
Passing round the inside of an old wasp’ s nest we could see an amazing hexagonal pattern the same as the honeycomb of bees. Mathematicians believe that bees and wasps use the hexagonal shape to utilise space. Other shapes like circles would leave a space.
Another amazing mathematical pattern we found in the heads of the sunflowers in the school garden. If you count the spirals you will always find a Fibonacci number where the number is equal to the two previous numbers (0, 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55, and so on). We liked learning the mathematical words for things we see all the time.
Maths patterns are all around us from the branching of trees,  waves, cracking muds, spirals of pine cones and snail shells, petals and seed heads, the number of spots on ladybird and identical halves of butterflies. Next time when you are out and about have a look and see what patterns you can see.
Club Wild,  Mrs B & Sarah-Jane
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Sumdog Contest

The Maths Week Scotland Sumdog Competition has started.

Our results so far are …

Out of 14907 pupils: 

  • 1988th – Lucy  – P1
  • 2317th – Callum  – P1

Out of 603 classes: 

  • 395th – P1
  • 583rd – P3

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