Blog by Tag: maths
World Maths Day
Last week, we celebrated world maths day by throwing a number bonds of 10 party!
We played lots of different games including, find your partner to make 10, roll a dice and complete the correct number of actions to make 10, making number pairs of raisins at snack time that make 10, pass the…
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Composing numbers 9 and 10
In Maths this week the children are making 9 and 10 in many different ways. They are thinking about one more and one less, counting objects to make amounts, subitising and comparing numbers and amounts.
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Comparing length
With our talking partners, we drew around our feet and compared the length of each foot. We used comparative vocabulary to describe them, such as longer and shorter, longest and shortest.
We also compared the length or height of different objects in the classroom together.
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Measuring- long and short
In Maths this week the children have been measuring length and height in different ways around the classroom. Today we were comparing the length of our feet!
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Combining two groups
In Maths this week the children are combining two groups to find the total in many different ways, both indoors and outdoors.
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Making 6, 7 and 8
This week the Ducklings have been exploring different ways to make 6, 7 and 8. They have been using objects to help them subitise and see how numbers are made up of smaller numbers.
"I can think there is 6 because I can see 4 and 2."
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Division in Owls
I am super proud of the year 3’s today. They have been working hard learning how to divide 3 digit numbers using the bus stop method. Some were even doing calculations with remainders. Well done Owls
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Prepositions
Outside this week the children are showing us their understanding of prepositions by placing the teddy, in, on, under, behind, next to, in front and through an object.
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Making human scales
In Maths this week we have been looking at scales and how they help us to weigh objects. We decided to see if we could turn ourselves into scales, placing heavy and light objects into each side to observe what happened. Here, we managed to create a balance!
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Comparing Weight and Capacity
In maths this week, we are exploring the capacity of different containers and the weight of different objects. We are finding the heavier and lighter of two objects by using balance scales and feeling the objects in our hands.We are exploring how objects small in size can be heavy and how some…
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What's in the Box?
Today we began out Maths learning with thinking about what is in a mystery box. Could it be something very big? or small?
Could it be something that's very heavy? Or something light?
The children decided that because the box was small, it had to be something light, like a teddy or a small…
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maths Speaking and Listening communication
Putting the bears in size order
For this challenge the children had to cut out the bears and then order them according to size, either smallest to biggest or biggest to smallest. Some children needed support to cut around the bears but the children’s cutting skills have really come on!
This task was tricky as there were up…
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