Trips & Workshops
MathsCity in Leeds
We all went on the train to MathsCity in Leeds this week. MathsCity was a brilliant experience because there was a lot to see and do. We pretty much had the whole place to ourselves which was great because we could do whatever activities we fancied. There were many things to do and many of ... Read more
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Maths – Area game and times table practice
I found this game on Pinterest and the girls loved it. The aim of the game is to take it in turns to roll the dice and to draw a rectangle using the dice values for the lengths of the sides. They then had to calculate the area and write that in the rectangle. The ... Read more
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Perimeter and Area People
To inject a bit of fun into our area/perimeter work, the girls drew their own “Perimeter People” and then worked out the perimeter and area of each aspect of their character. Aggie did a girl and Peggy did a cyborg killer bunny and a hippie! I got this idea from Pinterest, via TeachersPayTeachers, and thought ... Read more
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Place Value Yahtzee
I used to play Yahtzee for hours as a child so when I saw this, I had to introduce my girls to it too. I found this on Pinterest so clicked through to the website it’s on – games4gains. Here you’ll find the instructions and all the score cards, depending on whether you want to ... Read more
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Mayan Maths!
The Mayans invented a new number system using only three symbols : a shell for zero, a dot which meant one and a dash which meant five. The girls were fascinated with this and so we spent a whole session doing maths the Mayan way. There were several worksheets on Twinkl which we used within ... Read more
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Making an edible bar chart
We started off our maths topic on charts by looking at the numbers of each colour in a Smarties tube. You can’t beat edible maths! We used this worksheet from Twinkl to try out a tally chart and then a bar chart.
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