Today was the mark of our second Maths Match of the year – we reasoned our way into an amazingly tight competition today – check out our winners below!
Group 2 Maths Match!
Category: Maths
TTRS – THIS WEEK’S BATTLE – CAN WATER GET A WIN BEFORE CHRISTMAS? GET PLAYING NOW!
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 Friday the 17th December. If you have lost your log in details or need a new account, then please see your teacher or email them.
TAKING PART WILL WIN YOU TICKETS FOR OUR TERMLY HOUSE PRIZES: A PACK OF SHARPIES OR A REMOTE CONTROL CAR FOR THIS TERM.
This is the perfect thing for a Wednesday afternoon.
Times Table Rockstars: WHO WERE WINNERS LAST WEEK?
WHEN WILL WATER EVER WIN – EARTH AGAIN!
A special well done to those ‘Rockstars’ listed below. These players will also receive a ticket for the Phase prize draw, to win a pack of Sharpies or a remote control car – The top scorer will recieve ten tickets!
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.
How Long is a piece of String?
Again, Phase 3 took a hands-on approach to maths learning by further exploring fractions using – a piece of string. They were able to demonstrate that fractions are equal parts of a whole by folding the string 2, 3, 4 or more times. By comparing their own and their partner’s string, they illustrated that equivalent fractions apply to the same whole.
So, how long is a piece of string?
Well, the obvious answer is: twice as long as half the length.
Divide and Conquer
Mrs. Goode’s group have been delving deeper into division in maths: securing their knowledge of short and long division. Using whiteboards to display their answers, they were able to reason how and why they used the calculation methods they chose.
Can you explain which methods to use when dividing large numbers?
Can you think of any shortcuts?
Fun with Fractions
Mrs. Goode’s group thought they were telling fortunes instead of completing maths problems this week, as they unknowingly continued their investigations into fractions. By watching a video on how to make a chatterbox, they found they were unconsciously creating fractions.
Once they unfolded their chatterboxes, they could see all the fractions that had been made by folding the paper. They were able to discuss congruent and non-congruent fractions using their chatterboxes as proof.
Figuring Out Fractions
Mrs. Goode’s group have been finding different ways to represent and understand fractions using a very hand-on approach. They have been exploring the vocabulary associated with fractions and are gaining a deeper understanding of equivalence. By using various representations of a ‘whole’, they have used Cuisenaire rods to represent many different fractions.
Can you investigate some different methods for showing equivalence in fractions?
3-D CHRISTMAS CARDS
Creative 3-D Christmas cards were the order of the day, earlier this week – Below you can see some of the pupils designs and above you can see a video tutorial, should you like the idea of making your own (or another one).
Maths skills were needed, in the activity, to help the pupils measure each section of their creation, as well as appreciate the concept of 3-dimensions.
It was great to see so many nice messages to family and friends, too!
Great job everyone!
TRY MAKING YOUR OWN CARD AT HOME.
Urgent: Mr Flower Needs Your Help!
Please could you spend 5 minutes today carrying out this Maths survey for Mr Flower – take your time and read the questions!
Maths this week.
Hello Phase One, another maths, fun filled week ahead of us and this week we are exploring shapes and their properties. We will also be using positional language.
Try the games below and see if you can sort the shapes and repeat the patterns. Can you name them all? How many sides to they have? Do they have any sides? Can you prove this? Can you think of your own shape patterns? Can you spot any shapes at home?
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/early-years/shape-monsters
We will also be looking using positional language this week, we will be focusing on ‘on, in, behind, in front of, next too and under’. Share this with your child and see if you can read out the clues and ask them to find where the animal is hiding. Take turns being the finder, can your child think of their own sentence using the words, on, under, in, next too?
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