Phase 3 continue to tackle all aspects of fractions in their maths lessons. Last week, they used Dienes to represent ones, tenths, hundredths and thousandths. This was new learning for them, as they had to flip their previous learning on its head in order to reassign the large cube a value of one.
If the large block has a value of ONE, what value do the other dienes represent?
Join this week’s Times Tables Rock Stars battle between Phase 3 Water and Earth – take part and see if you can help your team win this week, whilst keeping your times tables knowledge and skills up-to-date.
The competition is available now and will end on Saturday the 22nd January. If you have lost your log in details or need a new account, then please see your teacher or email them.
This is the perfect thing for a Wednesday afternoon!
A new battle has begun – Who will win this week? Get playing now, especially if you are at home in isolation.
If you have lost your username and password, then contact Mrs. Peyyeti (ppeyyeti@st-pauls.gloucs.sch.uk), or your class teacher.
This week we shall be exploring addition and subtraction within numbers to 10 or 20. Pupils will be delving into different methods of this application and demonstrate their skills and knowledge by using objects along with recording their answers via writing. Can you help at home? Count and talk about numbers together, and discuss perhaps if you have 5 apples and then you were to eat 2 of them, how many would you then have left altogether? Can they prove it? How did they find out answer, did they simply know it or did they count out loud?
We will also be practicing our careful counting skills, this week. Pupils will be given a number and asked to tell a friend the number and to find the same amount of objects. Again, try this at home and see how your child find the activity. Phase One are becoming excellent mathematicians as they are starting to use mathematical language when answering questions, see if your child uses ‘greater then less than, equals to, whole, part, first, next, then, finally, on, under, next too, besides.’
Look at this picture and see if your child can explain what they can see in the image using wonderful mathematical vocabulary and full sentences. Don’t forget to keep counting as much as possible when outside of school and also see if you can spot numbers in and around your home, see which numbers your child can say, if they know all of the numbers, ask them to tell you what the numbers would be if they were one more or less than.
A new battle has begun – Who will win this week? Get playing now, especially if you are at home in isolation.
If you have lost your username and password, then contact Mrs. Peyyeti (ppeyyeti@st-pauls.gloucs.sch.uk), or your class teacher.
Join this week’s Times Tables Rock Stars battle between Phase 3 Water and Earth – take part and see if you can help your team win this week, whilst keeping your times tables knowledge and skills up-to-date.
The competition is available now and will end on Saturday the 15th January. If you have lost your log in details or need a new account, then please see your teacher or email them.
This is the perfect thing for a Wednesday afternoon!
There is still time to take part in this week’s Times Tables Rockstars battle, but Earth have a good lead already, so get playing Water pupils!
This is the perfect thing for a Wednesday afternoon!
Who said that times tables are hard?
They were wrong! Today in group 3, we learnt to say our eight times tables using a counting stick. In our pairs, we had a script to follow as we helped our partner to remember where the numbers went along the stick.
We had to double some numbers, triple others, remember a key and the number our partner kept forgetting. Once we had all the numbers on the counting stick our partner began removing them and seeing if we could remember what was missing.
Everyone had great fun learnt a lot!
Join this week’s Times Tables Rock Stars battle between Phase 3 Water and Earth – take part and see if you can help your team win this week, whilst keeping your times tables knowledge and skills up-to-date.
The competition is available now and will end on Saturday the 8th January. If you have lost your log in details or need a new account, then please see your teacher or email them.
This is the perfect thing for a Wednesday afternoon!
This week saw the Phase 3 pupils take part in the next edition of Maths Match – A great chance to work as a team and solve maths problems, together.
Teams names chosen and timer at the ready (minus the scoreboard in one room), the pupils set about the challenge in high Christmas spirits. It was a joy to see the pupils working so well in their groups and solving so much more then ever before – Great job everyone!
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