We have really enjoyed our active maths lessons today! Half of the children visited Crew MI’s grocery shop where they added money amounts and then found change. All children were fully engaged in this activity and loved visiting the shop and handling the items.

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The other half of the class moved around a series of activities in the hall. One activity involved throwing tennis balls into place value boxes and then using their place value knowledge to work out the number they had made. Another activity involved jumping, hopping and leaping and children measured the distance they had travelled. They also measured each other’s heights! Another further activity involved throwing a large beach ball around in a circle. When the ball was caught, the children had to add and multiply the numbers by their thumbs. This involved quick recall of our times tables as well as mental addition. The final activity was a puddle jump all based around their 6 and 8 times tables. Children had to chant the 6 times table whilst jumping onto the correct number.

What a fantastic lesson we had today, with so many elements of maths included.

See you all tomorrow 🙂

What a start to maths week! We had a fab magic maths lesson today looking at our 8 times table. We used a counting stick to chant out loud, we worked against other tables chanting and we had competitions between the boys and girls. We then worked with our partner to complete a true and false activity. We then moved onto looking at the biggest and smallest number, selecting the correct answers from groups of numbers. We used our knowledge on place value to do this. Our final activity looked at using a written method for multiplication. We multiplied a 4 digit number by a 1 digit number and some children moved onto multiplying a 2 digit number by another 2 digit number. A super start to maths week! We are all looking forward to setting up our own grocery shop tomorrow, adding and subtracting money and finding change.

Have a lovely evening, see you all tomorrow!