Maths: Blog items
Nursery and the Wonder of Water Play
Date: 19th Mar 2025 @ 8:51pm
The children absolutely love water play and it is wonderful watching them lead their own play, make decisons and work together. Water play provides opportunities for physical development, both fine and gross motor, as the chidlren pour and fill different size containers and move pipes. They also work together, discuss ideas and negotiate which supports PSED and communication and language development. There are also opportunties to learn about capacity. The children can honestly spend hours exploring and learning the water tray!
Date: 18th Mar 2025 @ 8:02am
This week at Boundary, parents and carers were invited in to class to join the pupils in their lessons. In year 5 we used our multiplication knowledge to complete a tarsia. A Tarsia puzzle is a type of jigsaw puzzle where each piece has a question or answer on its edge, and the goal is to match the correct answers to the questions by arranging the pieces to form a larger shape. After completing the puzzle, pupils made their own tarsia for their friends to complete.
Date: 5th Mar 2025 @ 10:56am
This half term we have been learning how to count objects more efficiently by grouping into tens and ones. Today we practised counting groups of tens using tens frames to support our understanding.
Reception Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 1:47pm
This week we have been reading the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears'. The children have been been busy completing lots of different activities based around the story. The children have enjoyed writng about the story and character, retelling the story at the storytelling table, collaging their own bears using a range of materials, making different sized bears out of playdough and using the lego to make beds and chairs for the the bear. They have also been ordering bears up to 10, comparing different quantitiees of bears using the vocabularly more than or less than andexploring number bonds to 5 and ten at our Goldilocks themed maths table.
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 9:19am
Mr Jones' maths group have been working really hard in Maths this week to understand Algebra. We started by looking at 1 and 2 step function machines before learning about formulas, expressions and substitution.
Date: 24th Feb 2025 @ 7:25pm
Today we began our new half term with a new story 'Monkey Puzzle!' We read the story together, talked about the characters, the setting and the key events before ordering the stories ourselves. We also completed lots of different mini me challenges in our provision, including counting jungle animals, retelling the story at our story telling table and writing sentences about the jungle setting.
Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 12:27pm
Acorns have been celebrating 100 days in school with lots of maths activities this week. We have love developing our knowledge and understanding of number and geometry through a variety of activities.
We have loved listening too and counting along with songs to 100. We have been using building blocks to count and explore repeated patterns. We continued to explore repeated patterns through our art activities and 'Bucket time'.
Date: 12th Feb 2025 @ 2:39pm
This week we started our maths with an assembly based on the book 'How mahy jelly beans?' by Andrea Menotti.
Year 4 then took part in a 'jelly bean' based maths lesson recapping their statistics skills. The children used a tally chart to collect data. The children found which jelly bean flavour was most popular and created a bar chart graph to show. Finally, the children analysed the graph to answer questions based on the data collected.
Date: 11th Feb 2025 @ 4:30pm
Nursery celebrated the 100th day in school with some super maths activities. We listened to the story "How Many Jelly Beans" and then counted out 100 jelly beans together - it took a long time! The children were given some jelly beans and had to find out how many they had. They then had to represent the number of jelly beans they had by drawing marks on paper. The children were also given 100 plastic cups and had to see how many different towers they could build with the cups there were some amazing creations!
Reception Exploring Composition of Numbers to 10
Date: 11th Feb 2025 @ 12:01pm
In maths we have being using different models and images to explore the composition of numbers up to 10. We have used tens and fives frames, the part part whole model and numicon to support your learning. Some of the children even recorded their work as calculations.
Date: 10th Feb 2025 @ 4:52pm
To celebrate the 100th day at school, we listened to the story, 'How many jelly beans' in assembly. In class we followed on from our learning of length and perimeter. The children looked at estimating the length of objects in comparison to jelly beans. Then, we used jelly beans as a unit of measurement to see how long different objects are. We then compared the different lengths.
Date: 10th Feb 2025 @ 3:58pm
To celebrate the 100th day at school, we listened to the story, ‘How many jelly beans’ in assembly.
In class we used jelly beans to represent a number in 4 different ways, each coloured jelly bean represented a different value. We had a great time making our number in lots of different ways represented by jelly beans.
Date: 10th Feb 2025 @ 12:34pm
To celebrate 100 days of the school year, pupils in year 5 completed a problem solving task. In pairs, pupils had to use fraction clues to work out how many jelly beans were in a jar, and also how many of each colour there were in the jar. We also had a discussion problem where pupils had to complete subtraction calculations to decide how they could get the most jelly beans!
Date: 10th Feb 2025 @ 11:26am
Today we enjoyed celebrating our 100th day at school! We began our day with learning about our theme for the day, before completing lots of different 100 related activities. We practised subtracting with jelly beans, did 100 warm up activities in PE, created 100 monsters and counted different objects up to 100!
Date: 6th Feb 2025 @ 7:57am
Our most recent unit has been algebra and the children have done exceptionally well with their learning. They have learned how to substitute letters and shapes for numbers, use funciton machines to find inputs and outputs and they have also been able to work out missing numbers in equations.
Year 1 Addition on a Number Line
Date: 3rd Feb 2025 @ 5:19pm
Today we revisited addition on a number line whilst working with numbers within 20. We recapped how to read addition number sentences, which number we need to start counting from on our number line and how many jumps we need to do to find our answer.
Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 12:26pm
As part of Boundary's work on careers, Year 6 enjoyed a morning working with Young Enterprise on their 'Learn to Earn' scheme. The children calculated the cost of their dream lifestyle and how much you would need to earn to live that lifestyle. We learned about the cost of living and the average starting salaries of different jobs in Lancashire. Then we discussed the importance of qualifications and the personal qualities and skills needed to do various jobs, which linked nicely with our Skills for Life.
Date: 24th Jan 2025 @ 11:59am
Acorns have been developing their understanding of big and small alongside reading Goldilocks and the three bears.
We have been comparing real objects in a multisensory approach to support our learning. We enjoyed comparing the big bed and small bed, big and small spoons, and we loved looking at our small wellies and Mrs Richardson big wellies!
Year 3- Diving a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number!
Date: 21st Jan 2025 @ 1:47pm
In this first lesson we looked at dividing a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number. The children looked at dividing with no exchanged. We used the stem sentence — divided by — is equal to —.
Date: 17th Jan 2025 @ 4:50pm
Acorns have enjoyed learning the story of Goldilocks and the theee bears this week. We have engaged for short periods of time listening to the story and taking turns with the puppets. We loved the voices of the bears and it made us giggle when Miss Richardson said " who's been sitting in my chair". We enjoyed learning the Goldilocks song and signs and dancing along to it.
In maths we have been exploring the number 3 and big and small, linking with our story.
We have been busy creating bear during arts and crafts and developing ball skills during PE.
Year 1 Mastering Teen Numbers!
Date: 14th Jan 2025 @ 10:41am
This week, Year 1 have been learning about the composition of teen numbers. We have learnt about tens and ones, what they are and how to identify how many are in a number. We have worked on counting accurately, identifying and writing teen numbers. We have also used lots of different resources, including Numicon, Base 10 and tens frames to make each number and deepen our understanding.
Date: 13th Jan 2025 @ 3:55pm
Today, we continued our Maths unit of shape by using our knowledge of the sides and vertices on 2D shapes to draw them accurately. We used the geoboards to help us make the shapes as regular as we could before drawing them in our books.
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 2:35pm
Nursery have been practising counting by building snowmen using cotton wool pads. They had to count out three cotton wool pads, two eyes and one nose. We talked about stopping when we had reached the given number and used vocabulary including too many and too few to describe different amounts.
Date: 12th Dec 2024 @ 9:19am
In Maths, we have been looking at Multiplication and Division. In one of our lessons we focused on using and applying multiplication facts form the three timetables. The children looked at how to create fact families, use bar models and solve reasoning and problem solving questions.
Date: 9th Dec 2024 @ 10:52am
In Maths, we have been looking at Multiplication and Division. In this lesson we looked at the difference between sharing and grouping. The children used bar models to solve the problems and used base ten to also support them.
