Maths: Blog items
Reception- Christmas Is On It's Way!
Date: 8th Dec 2023 @ 7:49pm
The decorations are up, the tree is dressed and presents are wrapped! it's all happening in Reception this week.
Children have been working together, sharing ideas and using their critical thinking skills to get into the spiirit of Christmas. They have been using their fine motor skills to place baubles, tinsel and beads on the Christmas tree in the home corner and they have been measuring and cutting wrapping paper to wrap Christmas presents for each other.
Date: 8th Dec 2023 @ 3:34pm
Today in Year 3 we looked at enterprise. We looked at what it meant to have a budget, what a profit was and what it meant to have a loss. We then started to think about our own enterprise for the school fair. We calculated what we had spent to buy the stock we needed and then decided on a price so that we could make a profit. Our maths skills came in very handy! Finally, we make our reindeer hot chocolates ready to sell and raise money for school.
Nursery Prepare for the Reindeers
Date: 8th Dec 2023 @ 1:08pm
We have been reading the story "The Christmasaurus" by Tom Fletcher. It's all about a dinosaur who lives at the North Pole with Santa. The Christmasaurus really wants to fly so he can pull Santa's sleigh. Santa say's he will try to help him learn to fly and suggets the Christmasaurus eats some magical reindeer food. We made our own reindeer food for Santa's reindeer and the Christmasarus. The chidren had to count 3 spoonfuls of porridge oats and 2 pinches of magical glitter and then give it a gentle shake! They had to concentrate really hard to make sure each spoonful of porridge and each pinch of glitter went in to the bag!
Date: 7th Dec 2023 @ 9:02am
This week, we learned about what enterprise means. We were then told that we had an enterprise project for the school Christmas Fair. Next, we went into Redcliffes and made reindeer food ready to sell at the Christmas Fair in a few weeks time.
Year 2 - Subtracting two digit numbers
Date: 7th Dec 2023 @ 7:30am
This week we have continued our addition and subtraction unit by looking at subtraction two digit numbers. We begun the week by exploring subtraction when it doesn't cross a ten, remembering the importance of starting with the ones. Throughout the week we have further deepened our understanding to subtracting two digit numbers when it does cross a ten exchanging one ten for 10 ones so we can subtract the ones before subtracting the tens. We explored how our whole is the same, it has just been represented in a different way. For example, 72 can be shown as 7 tens and 2 ones or 6 tens and 12 ones. We have enjoyed using a range of concrete resources which has helped us with more abstract calculations.
Year 2 - Which ship can hold the most weight?
Date: 7th Dec 2023 @ 7:27am
Last week, we conducted an experiment as part of our Everyday Materials unit to test which ship can hold the most weight? We made different sized boats using tin foil and placed counters on the top, counting how many counters it took until the ship sunk. This week, we used our results to use an online program to record our data in a block chart. We thought about the axis and giving the chart a title as well as inputting our own data before we interpreted our results using the chart. We found that the biggest ship could hold the most weight whilst the smallest ship held the least. This is because we can spread the weight.
Date: 6th Dec 2023 @ 7:06pm
This week we have learnt to use our knowledge of number bonds to find parts, and represent them using the subtraction symbol. We focussed on the meaning of the subtraction symbol and used part whole models to support us to write the related subtraction facts and start to build our understanding. We then moved onto answering missing number problems, subtracting by taking away and subtracting using a number line.
Year 2 - Adding two 2-digit numbers
Date: 28th Nov 2023 @ 9:15pm
Today we started adding two 2-digit numbers that do not cross the tens. We used place value counters and mats to help us see what happens when we add two 2-digit numbers. We started by making each 2-digit number with PV counters. We then added the ones before going on to add the tens and then combining them.
Date: 23rd Nov 2023 @ 12:05pm
Nursery have taken to the seas this week and become Pirates! We've made treasure maps, counted golden coins, worked together to a build pirate ship and made special pirate brews! The children have loved playing together to make up their own pirate stories and have even been fishing for their tea!
Date: 21st Nov 2023 @ 5:51pm
Today we began to formalise the idea of addition as bringing two or more parts together to create a whole. We completed three different tasks that encouraged us to explore and focus on bringing two parts together. We used the correct mathematical language to explain, e.g. ‘3 cubes plus 5 cubes is equal to 8 cubes.’ Some of our grow ups joined us for ‘together time’ and we showed them how we use tens frames, counters, part whole models and cubes to support our learning.
Date: 21st Nov 2023 @ 3:57pm
Today, for together time we used our knowledge of number bonds to create a puzzle. We had to match the number bonds to their correct partner as well as try to get it to fit together as a triangle. We first completed number bonds to 10 before challenging ourselves to complete one using number bonds to 20. A few of us got incredibly creative and made our own puzzle using bonds to 100. We loved showing off our learning to our adults and thank them all for joining us.
Date: 15th Nov 2023 @ 7:21am
Today we combined our knowledge of the part-whole model and addition facts to explore number bonds within 10. We started with the whole number and broke numbers into parts; exploring how many different ways a number can be partitioned. We explored this using double sided counters, tens frames and dot patterns. We worked through different examples together, noticing that we see numbers made from dot patterns differently, exploring these patterns and discussing these different ways of thinking. We continued to look at number sentences written with the symbols in different places and talked about the commutative nature of the calculations.
Year 2 - Absorbency Investigation
Date: 14th Nov 2023 @ 4:30pm
Today, in Science, we had a problem to solve. Mrs Jones-Boast wanted to know the best material to help mop up spills in the dinner hall. We discussed the problem and decided that the material needed to be absorbent. We then planned our investigation, thinking about what we needed to change, what we will measure and what we needed to keep the same to ensure a fair test. We also consolidated our maths skills by using a ruler to measure our results. We found that the most absorbent material was felt. The tinfoil and the cellophane were non-absorbent because they didin't absorb any liquid.
Date: 9th Nov 2023 @ 4:32pm
Today we used base 10 to help us work out calculations when adding across 10. We followed the process of creating our number then adding the correct amount of ones before exchanging 10 ones for 1 ten. It helped us understand the concept of exchanging in preparation for our next lesson using number lines to support us.
Date: 8th Nov 2023 @ 6:39pm
This week we have explored how to write number sentences to represent combining two or more parts, using the equals symbol to show the equivalence between the whole and the sum of the parts. Once our understanding was established, we then explored writing number sentences in a different order.
Later in the week, we then build on this learning by exploring addition fact families. We recognised that the order of an addition sentence can be varied and began to discover that addition is commutative.
Date: 5th Nov 2023 @ 9:53pm
This week Reception have been having a spooky time in class!
We listened to the story Room on the Broom, had fun retelling it at the story table, made repeating patterns on a witches hat, and also using spooky objects, painted pumpkins and spiders and wrote CVC words from the story too.
Ouside the children carved pumpkins and made spooky potions.
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 5:33pm
This week, we have explored parts and wholes using part-whole models. We have experimented with physical objects, drawing pictures and placing counters on the part-whole model. We have been using STEM sentences to decribe what we have been doing and to describe the parts and wholes in a variety of ways.
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 2:38pm
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 11:28am
Nursery have a had a very spooky time this week. We have had lots of halloween activities to support our social and emotional development, our communication and language and physical development. The children have been mixing their own potions, exploring how to get halloween objects out of ice and counting legs on spiders. There have also been some very messy activities that have encouraged the chidlren to talk about what they can see, smell and feel.
Date: 1st Nov 2023 @ 8:57pm
Reception have been practicing recognising numbers 1-10,matching objects to its cardinal value and putting them in the correct order. We have also been making AB repeated patterns using spooky objects.
Date: 30th Oct 2023 @ 9:15pm
As part of our journey into multiplication and division, we have been learning about multiples and factors of numbers. In this lesson, after working together as a class to find factors of 16 and 20, pupils worked in a small group to find all of the factors of 12. We used the cubes to make arrays, which helped us. The factors of 12 are: 1, 3, 4, 6 and 12.
Date: 20th Oct 2023 @ 11:22am
Nursery have had a throughly good time outside this week with lots of exciting and stimulting experiences. All our outdoor experiences are great for supporting social and emotional developemnt as the children learn to share, take turns and interact with their friends. Whilst they are doing this they also develop their communication and langauge skills. This week the children have been making ramps to roill conkers down. They investigated lots of differnent heights for the ramp and where thrilled when they discoverd if the conkers land on the trampoline they will bounce! The children also counted the conkers and explored capacity by putting them in different containers. The conker fun didn't stop there - we had to clean them all up! This was great for developing physical development as the children sweprt them in to a pile. Have a look at the photos to see what else we have been doing.
Date: 19th Oct 2023 @ 4:43pm
On Wednesday morning it was No Pen Day at Boundary. We had a great time in class, learning without using pens and pencils to record our work. For maths, pupils completed a tarsia puzzle, which required them to recall our previous learning and match numbers to Roman numerals. For our Reading into Writing lesson, pupils worked in small groups to build a non-chronological report from different features.
Date: 17th Oct 2023 @ 7:06pm
Today we consolidated the skills learnt from our place value work this half term to demonstrate how to find numbers on number lines when asked key questions, e.g. what is one more/one less than __? Which numbers are greater/less than __? Which is the greatest/smallest number? As it was no pen day, we worked on pre drawn number lines, both in the classroom and outside.
Date: 17th Oct 2023 @ 4:51pm
Today, alongside the whole School we participated in our termly no pen morning. We began the morning by consolidating our knowledge of telling the time to the nearest 5 minutes where we played a board game with a partner having to tell the time on the square we landed; this was also brilliant for our communication and turn taking skills as well as being able to support one another. Then, we continued our fantastic morning by beginning to sew our puppets together ready to be decorated; we carefully threaded the needle and tried to do a running stitch- we had to demonstrate good perseverence and resillience but we are excited to make our final product. Check back over the coming days to see our final puppets!
