We have been using equipment and pictorials to represent numbers. This has helped us to recognise tens and ones in two-digit numbers and partition them in different ways.
Representing Numbers
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Maths
Negative Number Lines
Class 5 have been refreshing their knowledge of positive and negative numbers by placing them onto number lines. Next, they will be solving multi-step problems which involve calculating intervals across zero.
Gibside Fun
What a fantastic day we had a Gibside on Wednesday! Year 5 used geo-mapping to find their way around a treasure hunt- completing challenges along the way. We utilised our maths estimation and knowledge of measurement to help us. The rain even held off for our...
Rounding Revision
We have been revising rounding in maths today. We love drawing on the tables- we aren't as keen on the cleaning up though!
Easter Egg Drop Challenge!
Maths Games
We have been consolidating our learning in maths today by taking part in a 'games lesson'. We had a carousel of activities based on the things we have been learning in maths lessons, morning arithmetic and KIRF we use for homework. This gave us a change to show off...
Bee-bots
This week we started off using instructions verbally and following them using our bodies. We then moved to listening to them in music and doing a dance. This helped us to understand which way our Bee-Bots needed to move. From this it was so much fun being able to...
What is cinnamon?
A question that was posed from one child to another when in the sand area was pouring sand down the cluttering in his play saying “I am adding cinnamon”. We were focusing on 10 in maths so we chose the price of 10p per slice of our homemade apple and cinnamon crumble...
Taller or shorter?
Following on from reading the story of ‘Superworm’ in choosing time the children made wands just like the evil lizard. We used our skills of measure and mathematical vocabulary to compare the wands to the size of the worms.
What time is it, 2S?
In Maths, we made our own clocks help us to tell the time to the nearest five minutes. We have used lots of key vocabulary in our lessons such as minute hand, hour hand, clockwise, minutes past and minutes to.