Blog by Tag: Maths

Year 2 have used balances to explore how to measure mass in grams and kilograms.

Knowledge: to use standard units of measure for mass.

Skills: to use a balance accurately.

Vocab: balance, measure, grams, kilograms. pans, mass, object

This morning, children in Year 4 have been using Numicon to support their understanding of adding fractions. 

Y6 were faced with a Design and Technology challenge: to design and make their very own playground!

They had to:

• Create five apparatus designs, applying the design criteria to their work.
• Make suitable changes to their work after peer evaluation.
• Make roughly three different…

In year 1 we are beginning to compare the length and height of different objects. We brainstormed all the words we could use to compare lengths and heights. 

Year 3 use manipulatives to multiply.

The Nursery children were exploring Numicon, and counting the holes and making number towers using the coloured pieces.

Children in Year 4 have been practising the speed, fluency and accuracy of their Multiplication and Division Facts.

Who will gain their Rock Stars Status next? 

To support some of our Y5 today, a FRACTION of the class was having a WHOLE lot of fun with fractions!

Pupils were able to use their fractions knowledge in various ways, such as cutting a Wagon Wheel in HALF and QUARTERS and splitting oranges into eighths to bring segments back together to make…