At the beginning of the week, we finished our maths lesson a bit early so we took the opportunity to practice our Arithmetic (fractions of an amount). It was great seeing everyone use the method and almost everyone for all of them correct.
This afternoon, we have looked at making numbers to 10. We started by selecting a number from the magic bag, and then choosing two representations from the pile of tens frames. We counted up all of the counters on the representations to see how many we had altogether and to see if we had made the magic number or not. After that, we made dominoes using our play dough and beads. We talked about how many were in each part and how many altogether.
What a fantastic maths lesson! Today we continued our work on money where we converted between pounds and pence 🙂
Some of us worked on multiplying whole numbers by 10,100 and 1000 today then moved onto doing the same for decimals. Some of us were consolidating our written methods where we worked out if we had to exchange or carry. A great lesson MI 🙂
In arithmetic, we have been looking at finding fractions of an amount. We looked at both unit and non unit fractions. We were encouraged to use the method which helps to ensure we calculate the correct answer. Some of use moved on to worded problems that required us to use the skills we’d learned.
These two put a big smile on my face this morning! Spending their time at home getting ready for our arithmetic paper today, absolute superstars wanting to do well! We love to see it!
We have looked at what it means to double a number and to put this into practise, we used our special doubling cauldron! Whatever we put into the cauldron… double the amount came out! We worked well together to predict what we thought would come out of the magic doubling cauldron before checking the answer using accurate counting.
Crew MW have been working on making numbers to 10 and comparing them in maths today. We started by looking at the domino sets and telling our partners how many spots were on each side and how many we had altogether. We then compared the dominoes using the vocabulary, ‘more’, ‘less’, or ‘equal’.
Once we had practiced using our new vocabulary, we made numbers on our tens frames and used our vocabulary to compare how many we had. We’re getting really good at recognising how many counters are in our tens frame without counting them by grouping and using our number bonds. Well done Crew MW!
Today we looked at symmetrical figures using a mirror line to reflect given shapes and patterns. We found this tricky at first, but after some practise in mini crews and as a whole crew, we were able to apply our knowledge to some questions. We really enjoyed our maths lesson today, some of us even achieved green standard! Fab work MI 🙂
Today, in maths we learnt about lines of symmetry and used a mirror to find them.
