NSPCC Number Day & World Maths Day 2021
Class 3
We all came dressed up today in something that represents maths – that could be number, shape, space, measure, statistics and so on! The children all looked fantastic and came ready to share why they had chosen the clothes that they had. In Class 3, we had a jumper full of hexagons, a number on a football shirt, parallel lines and even a handmade necklace to represent a repeating pattern! It was so lovely to see the children who are currently at home too – they too had found something mathematical to wear and it was amazing to see and chat to them this morning on Teams!
For our extra maths activities, Miss Cashmore sent home a pack of puzzles, including: a Sudoku number puzzle, a shape Sudoku and an Emoji crack the code quiz! At school, we went outside and gathered objects from around the school grounds. We then categorised them, ready to collate the data. We represented how many of each item we had in our categories and presented it on a giant bar chart on the playground and used metre sticks instead of our usual rulers to draw accurate bars! We had an amazing time!
Class 2
In recognition of World Maths Day, Class 2 took part in a number of activities together, both at home and at school. During our morning TEAMS meeting with the children at home, we played a game. Every child had a loop card that had an answer and question on it. The children had to listen for the question and show their card if they had the answer. They then read their question out for the next child. The children had to work the sums out to see if they had the matching loop card. The children worked really hard on their number bonds for this! Alongside other maths activities, we spent the afternoon outside. We had challenges to complete using both resources we found outside and those we chose from the classroom. These activities included: making tally charts with natural materials, creating lines of symmetry using a mixture of materials and making kites using sticks and string. We had a great day and know that we find maths everywhere we look!
Class 1 Early Years
Class 1 had a wonderful time learning all about pattern during ‘Maths Day’. We explored pattern in a range of ways including songs, actions, colours, shapes and objects. We made some wonderful regal crowns with gems carefully placed in a repeated pattern. We can’t wait to wear them when we have our special Cinderella party! When we are learning mathematics, we love to learn using the outdoors. This week, we created some patterns using a range of natural objects.
As part of our work for the NSPCC’s Number Day we dressed in Maths related clothing. We have some great TT Rockstars complete with guitars, lots of repeating patterns, football tops and some dominoes! We also enjoyed some of our Outdoor Maths. Year 1 went on a number hunt to find hidden numbers placed outside in some tricky places and then worked together to put them in order. Year 2 used the whole school environment to look for numbers and record them on post its. They were everywhere-in the staffroom, the office, outside and in the library. We then created a number line from masking tape which went right across the hall. We labelled the number line with 0 and 100 and then worked together to think how we could work out where numbers should go. We brainstormed ideas and decided that working out that the mid-point was 50 was a good plan. We then worked out what would be the mid-point between 0 and 50 and then 50 and 100. This made it much easier to estimate where numbers should go. We had to tweak the numbers a little as we worked our way through the collected numbers, but we were proud of what we had achieved. We found that we had to extend our number line into Early Years as we had some numbers over a 100 and there wasn’t enough room in the hall to fit up to 150!
Year 3 and 4 grouped and sorted objects using Venn and Carrol Diagrams outside. They were given a range of equipment including: hoops, chalk, clipboards, whiteboards and pens. They had to use these to plan and carry out their sorting activities. The children were tasked with thinking of categories which were suitable for the objects and materials we may find in our school grounds. Many of the children suggested that ‘man-made’ and ‘natural’, ‘rough’ and ‘smooth’ and ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ would be sensible categories (amongst others). All of the children were proud of their large-scale diagrams and worked hard to present their information carefully and accurately!
Class 1 completed a range of activities. We went on a maths hunt outside and looked for anything maths related, such as numbers on drain covers, shapes on trees and repeating patterns on equipment. Whilst outside, we also wrote numbers and drew shapes on the playground using chalk, counted in order by playing hopscotch and used resources like bean bags to count in 2s and 10s. We had a go at ordering everyone in the class by their height and were interested to find that it did not go in age order. We made a human number line where we were each given a number and had to find our correct space before the timer ran out.
