Blog by Tag: Maths

We have started learning about coins and their value. We were looking at the similarities and differences between all the coins. 

We have had fun completing the ‘Pentominoes Challenge’. First, we had to make 12 shapes using 5 squares. When we had created the 12 shapes, we then put them on a grid with no gaps or overlapping shapes.

We used our construction to help us count and spot patterns when counting in 2s. 

We used ten frames to spot patterns when counting in 2s.

We have been learning about decimal place value this week.  We cut up a straw (our "whole")  into tenths to make necklaces.  We then cut up a tenth piece into hundredths to make hundredth bracelets, and a few of us managed to persist with dividing a hundredth into thousandths to make earrings! …

We spotted patterns when counting in 2s on an 100 square.

We have been practising counting in 2’s with objects and numbers.

Today we started our new maths topic all about statistics.  We thought about making tally charts to show different information and created our own tally charts to show our favourite fruit, and to show what passed by the front of school.

We had great fun with a new continuous provision activity- Number value and match teddies. 

In class over the last couple of weeks we have been learning about shape and today we were very lucky to be joined by Elijah's parents.  They came into school with a big box of polydrons so we could learn more about 2D and 3D shapes.  They taught us some very complicated shape names like a…

To start our new maths topic about 2D and 3D shapes, we sorted lots of different shapes into groups.  Can you tell what our sorting criteria were?

In maths we are learning that multiplication and division are inverse operations.  We know that we can multiply any numbers in any order but this is not true when dividing.  We have also learnt that good mathematicians like to be organised and one good way to organise our thinking is by using an…