Arithmetic

In our arithmetic session today, Crew Hamill have been focusing on one of our gaps in learning that we identified from last week’s arithmetic test. We looked at multiplying 2 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers and recapped how to do this using the column method. Some of us even moved on to 3 digit by 1 digit!

Telling the Time – 5 minute intervals

Today, Crew Hamill pushed their learning of time to the next level by focusing on the 5 minute intervals on an analogue clock. We practised our 5 times tables to ensure we were secure in counting in 5s and then repeated this up to 60 as there are 60 minutes in an hour. We focused on the blue hand being our minute hand and the red hand being our hour hand and used this to show different times using the 5 minute intervals.

Telling The Time

Crew Hamill began their new maths unit yesterday, focusing on telling the time! To get us started, we did some practical work looking at o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to. We began by discussing what an analogue clock is and where we might see them in every day life. We then looked at the different hands and what each of them represented. Following this, we used our individual clocks to show different times. We began with o’clock times, understanding that the minute hand will always be on the 12. Then we looked at half past, with the minute hand being on the 6, half way around the clock. To end the lesson, we pushed ourselves to look at quarter past and quarter to.

Angles and turns

In maths, we have moved on to our new topic shape. We started off by looking at angles and turns. We practiced quarter turns, half turns, three quarter turns and full turns. We then practiced going clockwise and anti-clockwise. We then worked in pairs to practice turns.


Arithmetic Gaps

This afternoon, we have done some whiteboard word on some gaps in our arithmetic which are few and far between. We’ve been revisiting ones where we have made a minor error in the calculation rather than not knowing how to do it. We will continue revising different questions types until we’ve completed our assessments in week 3.

Two Way Tables

In our final statistics lesson, Crew Hamill worked on reading data from tables and inputting missing data. We looked at a range of different questions in mini crews in which we had to use tables of data to identify values. These questions involved addition and subtraction too so we were able to recap our written methods.

Bar Charts

To complete our statistics unit in maths, Crew Hamill began by learning how to interpret bar charts. We looked at what a bar chart was and worked as a crew to discuss what different bar charts were illustrating. We then worked in mini crews to answer questions on what the bar charts were showing us. After this, we used the information we gathered when completing pictograms and this time illustrated the data in our own bar charts.