Category: Maths

Dizzy Rotation

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Last week, during maths, some of the pupils in Phase 3, began exploring the concept of rotation: how a point or perhaps a shape rotate around a given point. This was a follow-up to the learning they’d undertaken all about mirroring (symmetry) and other transformations.

The lesson began as the pupils reasoned what was happening with a group of people sat on a playground roundabout (in a video, shown below) – which also gave us a chance to discuss the Coriolis Effect: so some science thrown in too. Take a look at the video! We then set about considering how every part of us relates to a rotational point, when moving around a broom – again this gave us a chance to talk about more science and why we get dizzy, when we stop rotating (the volunteers only rotated slowly and stopped well ahead of any risk of being dizzy). We watched the second video shown below, to help us understand why we get dizzy – Everyone was fascinated by the fluid in the ears and the little hairs that ‘talk’ to our brain.

Finally we considered rotation of shapes – A complex skill to master. What is the most important thing to remember when rotating a shape?

Enjoy the videos and see what you can find out about rotation.

Phase One Maths

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Reception are concentrating on their numbers up to 20 with careful counting and number formation. They will be learning to play Take Down the Wall game. This is a game played in pairs wall by removing one or two bricks at a time. The winner is the person who takes off the last brick.

To win at this game, you want to ensure it is your opponents turn when there are three bricks left. The strategy can be worked back from this to pinpoint key numbers. You might like to have a go at this at home?

Year One pupils are concentrating on measurement for the next two weeks, particularly looking at capacity. They will be using the vocabulary of most, least, more and less. They will also be introduced to units of measurement for capacity – litres, centilitres.

Phase One Maths this week

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Reception are looking at money this week, starting to recognise and understand the value of coins. They will be concentrating on the representation of 1p and understanding that 5 pennies is the same value as a 5p piece.

Year One pupils will be recapping fractions. They will be concentrating on 1/2 1/4 and 3/4. They will also be learning to write the number 1-20 in both numerals and words correctly.

Here is a link to a money game that you all might enjoy playing – make sure you click on the correct flag to select the money that we use here in the United Kingdom! https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

Maths Match – House Challenge

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This week, the challenge was set, for Maths Match: would Earth or Water win. The questions were set and the task began: Algebra, fractions and BODMAS calculations were the order of the day – amongst others. Can you solve some of them shown above?

Top scores in the houses, were identical, but Earth took the championship match, with a higher average score: Congratulations Earth pupils.

Well done to the ‘Dynamic Division’ team, who took the title in Water House, this week. It was a close call with the ‘Crazy Calculators, but with a total of 37, the dynamic team took it.

REMEMBER, KEEP REASONING! THAT’S WHAT MATHS IS REALLY ABOUT!

Year One’s Math Match

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Today in our Maths lesson, we had a go at Maths Match. We got into five teams and had to answer six questions as quickly as possible to see who would be the winning team!

The questions were:

Year One’s worked really hard as a team to answer the questions correctly and try to be the fastest team. We had a speaker from each team who had to come up and correctly answer the questions with an explanation as how they arrived at the answer. With more practice we will be able to be work faster and try to beat the teams. Team A were the fastest to answer the questions correctly – Year One’s now want to do this again so see if they can win!

Group 3 maths word of the week!

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Our word of the week is STRATEGY. We have talked about which strategy we can use to work out fraction problems. This week we have focussed on Bar Modelling to help us work out unit and non-unit fractions of quantities.

We are also getting to grips with STAR. This one of our strategies for helping us to work out problems logically.

S – search the problem and underline the key words

T – translate the problem into numbers

A – answer the question with the correct calculation and preferred strategy

R – reflect on the answer. How can you check that it is correct?

Phase One Maths

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Reception are continuing to look at shape and repeating patterns this week, concentrating on their language and understanding the properties of shape. This week’s Big Picture is from the nursery rhyme Mary Mary Quite Contrary.

Year One pupils are looking at the numbers beyond 50 up to 100 and understanding the counting in 10’s when looking at larger quantities. They will be looking at the number bonds of 100 and comparing large quantities discussing which is the largest/smallest number.

Can you work out who has the most bricks? How many bricks and logs does each pig have?