Category: Maths

Every maths lesson, Year 5 begin with a ‘flashback 4’ which helps consolidate their previous maths learning. Here is our flashback from today where we practiced adding fractions, finding equivalent fractions and rounding numbers. The pupils were also able to identify the time on an analogue clock and write it in 12 hour time and 24 hour time.

This week the year six children have chosen the areas of Mathematics they want to revise ahead of their SATs tests next week. We have been doing lots of whiteboard work this week and the children requested to practise converting improper fractions to mixed numbers and vice versa.

Today Year 3 started their work on shape. They learned that angles are formed two lines meet and that angles are also a measure of turn. They made angle makers to identify angles then used them to identify which angles had a greater measure of turn.

Today in maths Year 4 have been exploring the properties of different 2D shapes. We have looked at the different number of vertices and side that different shapes have and whether they are regular or irregular. The children then played a game of ‘guess the shape’ where they had to pick a shape whilst their partner had to ask questions like ‘does your shape have more than 4 vertices?’ in order to guess the correct shape. We had a lot of fun playing this game whilst using all of our vocabulary.

This week, Year 5 have been finding fractions of amounts. We have used our learning of multiplying fractions to help us solve and answer word problems.

Yesterday in Year four we started our new unit on shape and symmetry. Yesterday the children looked at how we can tell if angles are bigger or smaller. Today we moved onto looking at right angles. We learnt that a right angle is a 90 degree angle and shapes like squares and rectangles have four right angles. We created a right angle checker to help us investigate a range of different shapes.