Blog by Tag: maths

We have continued with our counting to 20 in our maths lessons.

We looked at different ways we could make and count to 20, Mrs Swift even finished with a game where we had to make 20 by landing a beanbag in different zones on a target and adding the results.

Well Done 4S!!!

We continued with our work on counting today! We used the interactive whiteboard to move the numbers on the number line to the correct position.

Well Done 4S

In our maths lesson this week we have been working on our counting to 20!

Mrs Swift started with a fun game where we started at 1 and when she pointed at us we had to say the next number!

We then looked at using 10 frames to help us count on from 10

Well done 4S!!!

We had lots of fun counting Mr Brannigan's change collection. 

We grouped, counted and calculated how much of each coin there was. 

If we estimated correctly we got a reward!

We have been enjoying identifying coins and their values today.

Tomorrow we are sorting Mr Brannigan's change collection.

Wow Ashley - what an achievement. You took the caterpillar outfit to Mrs Rose so she could help you put it on. You enjoyed pretending to be the caterpillar, eating all of the fruit. When asked how many pieces of fruit there were, you counted them and said the correct number. 

In maths this week we are looking at arrays. This helps us with our multiplication.

Well done 5J!

In maths this week we are learning how to become proficient in calculators.

Calculators can help us to work out large sums and are present on pretty much every electronic device now (such as phones).

We are learning how to use them correctly to allow

us to use them outside of the…

In our maths lesson this week we have started to learn about the origins of maths and numbers.

We looked at how fingers were used to begin with, before moving onto Roman numerals and our current numbers that are Arabic in origin.

We finished with counting using a traditional…

In our functional maths lesson this week we looked at budgeting and booking a holiday.

We used google sheets to easily list all the costs and needs of a holiday.

Well done 5J

In Maths we started to discuss how we can use different methods to work out problems and sums.

We spoke about the horizontal and column methods and when would be the correct times to use them.

We had a great discussion! 
 

Well done 5J!

Today we looked at how to sort objects with different criteria and categories.  We needed to recognise similarities and differences.