Developing our estimation and tallying skills, using beans and spaghetti!

18th September 2024Laura Godley

We had a great breakfast this morning, beans or spaghetti on toast. The first job was to decide which we preferred which was a tricky job! But it wasn’t that simple, we had a challenge. Our first job was to estimate how many beans/spaghetti hoops we thought were in a tin, this ranged from 57 to 450. We then counted the beans and spaghetti hoops as we ate, completing a tally to ensure we kept track of the numbers. It was hard work but our resilience shone through and we discovered that a tin held approximately 431 beans!

Estimating numbers to 10000

17th September 2024Laura Hamill

To consolidate our learning, Crew Hamill took part in a practical lesson in which we became a number line to 10,000 in order to deepen our understanding on how to estimate numbers on a number line. We began by each being a different number, starting with our start and end numbers (0 and 10,000) and adding in the interval half way (5000) and half way again (2500 and 7500). Remaining children were then given a number between 0 and 10,000 and had to decide where they would place themselves along the line, thinking carefully about which of our interval numbers they would stand between and which one they would be closer to based on the value of their number. Once we had done this, we then worked in mini crews to mark on different interval values on number lines to 10,000 and placed a range of numbers where we estimated they belonged onto each line.

99 Club

12th September 2024Laura Godley

Crew Godley have been in a very competitive mood this week and challenging themselves to get smart. We have started our 99 club in maths and trying to answer as many questions we can in a given time! Some of the children have even moved onto the 55 club already, 55 questions in 3 minutes! It’s been challenging but the crew have showed that their resilience is developing.

Missing number fun in Crew Marsh

12th September 2024Kirsty Atherton

Crew Marsh demonstrated their knowledge of number by writing the missing number on a number line on their whiteboards. Mrs Atherton gave us critique to ensure our numbers were the right way round, we then fixed our work if we needed to.

Partitioning in MI

9th September 2024Stacey McClare

Our entry ticket consolidated our learning when writing numbers in words and with digits. Our main learning was looking at 4 digit numbers with lots of practise around partitioning. We even managed to challenge ourselves further working on different problem solving and reasoning questions too. A great lesson MI 🙂

Magic Maths

9th September 2024Laura Godley

Today in magic maths we’ve been exploring our times tables and how we can use a place value chart to support multiplying by ten. The challenge, wasn’t a challenge at all! I’m so proud of the progress Crew Godley are making with their maths!