We love our daily times table sessions 🙂
Times tables in MI
Category : Maths in Action
Fractions and decimals in MI
Today we consolidated our learning on tenths then moved onto looking at hundredths. We were amazed that 1/10 was the same as 10/100. A great maths lesson in MI 🙂
Fractions
This week we have been exploring fractions, we have used many manipulative to secure our understanding and on Friday, it got a whole lot tastier! We used parts of a pizza to understand denominators. When we divided our pizza into equal slices, we could visualise that each slice represented a fraction of the whole pizza. Who knew math could be so delicious?
Timestable carousel
We really do love our timestable sessions 🙂
Maths in MI
Magic maths allowed us to consolidate our learning on measure where we converted between units before ordering from shortest to longest. The main part of our maths lesson looked at using bar models to find equivalent fractions. We all then moved onto some reasoning and problem solving questions. The problems today proved to be really challenging however children showed great resilience, supporting each other to talk through the problems and showing their working out with a bar model. Great collaborative working MI 🙂
Fact Families
In magic maths, we have been focusing on fact families so we worked as a small group matching the multiplications and divisions.
Morning task
Some of us in Y6 got hands on consolidating angles this week. We really enjoyed this quick revision morning task to help our learning stick!
Maths in MI
Today our magic maths consolidated our knowledge on factors and we also explored tally charts. The activate for our main maths lesson was a recap on equivalent fractions. This really challenged our thinking and there was a lot of great collaborative working where children we really explaining their thought process and how they got their answers. We then moved onto looking at fractions on a number line which we will continue to explore in our next maths lesson.
Tables Stick Practice
Today we tested out our mini tables sticks for the first time to practice looking for patterns in our five times tables!
Working on reading pace
LT: To read with increasing speed
Y5 had a challenge to read and understand a short text in under 60 seconds, then they had 4 questions to read and record their answer within 3 minutes. We had great discussions around unknown vocabulary and how to unpick what the unfamiliar words might mean.
