Blog by Tag: Maths

This week in maths, we have been recapping how to tell the time. We used clocks to show different times and then solved time word problems in pairs. Telling the time is an important life skill and any practice at home would be beneficial. We have been asking children to look at the clock and tell…

Year 4 have absolutely flew Arithmetic this week in which they have been consolidating multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100. These are very important skills which will support them in lots of areas of Maths learning. Well done Y4!

Year five Dolphins polished their arithmetic skills today, using a layout WAGOLL to help them. 

Today we have looked at how to read and answers questions about two way tables, these come in a variety of different forms and can be used to measure all kinds of useful data such as; distance, attendance, quantity and capacity. Some of the tables had never been seen before but we were surprised…

Year five Dolphins have been investigating how to correctly read two-way tables today.  They have learnt and used vocabulary such as catogories, rows and columns to aid them in explaining their understanding of their work. Brilliant!

This week, Y4 have consolidated subtraction using column method. We have found this a bit tricky previously however it was wonderful to see so many children make some great progress with this important skill. Keep up the super maths work Y4!

Today in Maths we recapped Lines of Symmetry, we cut out different shapes to help us to decide if the shape had a vertical line of symmetry, 

In Maths, we have been learning about odd and even numbers. We shared amounts between two groups to find out if given numbers are odd or even. If we could share the amount equally between the two groups, we knew the number must be even. If we could not share the counters equally between the…

Today Year 5 have been learning how to draw a line graph using a range of data and even plotting more than one set of data onto the same graph. The children recalled how we have talked about using these to represent data from our experiments and the benefits of using this kind of graph. One boy…

Today in Maths we have been consolidating our knowledge of subtracting and adding 1s, 10s, 100s and 1000s. Year 4 have really impressed us with how well they have showcased their understanding in this topic. Well done Year 4!

In Maths this week, we have been counting forwards and backwards to and from 100. We also looked at partitioning numbers to 100, identifying the value of the tens and ones. The children wowed us with their amazing knowledge and understanding. 

Today Nursery went for a trip to the seaside! At the seaside we wanted some ice cream so needed to count the scoops. We did an amazing job of matching number to quantity from 1-10, and then drew various ice cream amounts on the whiteboard. Well done Nursery!