Maths: Blog items
Date: 10th Feb 2025 @ 3:58pm
To celebrate the 100th day at school, we listened to the story, ‘How many jelly beans’ in assembly.
In class we used jelly beans to represent a number in 4 different ways, each coloured jelly bean represented a different value. We had a great time making our number in lots of different ways represented by jelly beans.
Date: 10th Feb 2025 @ 12:34pm
To celebrate 100 days of the school year, pupils in year 5 completed a problem solving task. In pairs, pupils had to use fraction clues to work out how many jelly beans were in a jar, and also how many of each colour there were in the jar. We also had a discussion problem where pupils had to complete subtraction calculations to decide how they could get the most jelly beans!
Date: 10th Feb 2025 @ 11:26am
Today we enjoyed celebrating our 100th day at school! We began our day with learning about our theme for the day, before completing lots of different 100 related activities. We practised subtracting with jelly beans, did 100 warm up activities in PE, created 100 monsters and counted different objects up to 100!
Date: 6th Feb 2025 @ 7:57am
Our most recent unit has been algebra and the children have done exceptionally well with their learning. They have learned how to substitute letters and shapes for numbers, use funciton machines to find inputs and outputs and they have also been able to work out missing numbers in equations.
Year 1 Addition on a Number Line
Date: 3rd Feb 2025 @ 5:19pm
Today we revisited addition on a number line whilst working with numbers within 20. We recapped how to read addition number sentences, which number we need to start counting from on our number line and how many jumps we need to do to find our answer.
Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 12:26pm
As part of Boundary's work on careers, Year 6 enjoyed a morning working with Young Enterprise on their 'Learn to Earn' scheme. The children calculated the cost of their dream lifestyle and how much you would need to earn to live that lifestyle. We learned about the cost of living and the average starting salaries of different jobs in Lancashire. Then we discussed the importance of qualifications and the personal qualities and skills needed to do various jobs, which linked nicely with our Skills for Life.
Date: 24th Jan 2025 @ 11:59am
Acorns have been developing their understanding of big and small alongside reading Goldilocks and the three bears.
We have been comparing real objects in a multisensory approach to support our learning. We enjoyed comparing the big bed and small bed, big and small spoons, and we loved looking at our small wellies and Mrs Richardson big wellies!
Year 3- Diving a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number!
Date: 21st Jan 2025 @ 1:47pm
In this first lesson we looked at dividing a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number. The children looked at dividing with no exchanged. We used the stem sentence — divided by — is equal to —.
Date: 17th Jan 2025 @ 4:50pm
Acorns have enjoyed learning the story of Goldilocks and the theee bears this week. We have engaged for short periods of time listening to the story and taking turns with the puppets. We loved the voices of the bears and it made us giggle when Miss Richardson said " who's been sitting in my chair". We enjoyed learning the Goldilocks song and signs and dancing along to it.
In maths we have been exploring the number 3 and big and small, linking with our story.
We have been busy creating bear during arts and crafts and developing ball skills during PE.
Year 1 Mastering Teen Numbers!
Date: 14th Jan 2025 @ 10:41am
This week, Year 1 have been learning about the composition of teen numbers. We have learnt about tens and ones, what they are and how to identify how many are in a number. We have worked on counting accurately, identifying and writing teen numbers. We have also used lots of different resources, including Numicon, Base 10 and tens frames to make each number and deepen our understanding.
Date: 13th Jan 2025 @ 3:55pm
Today, we continued our Maths unit of shape by using our knowledge of the sides and vertices on 2D shapes to draw them accurately. We used the geoboards to help us make the shapes as regular as we could before drawing them in our books.
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 2:35pm
Nursery have been practising counting by building snowmen using cotton wool pads. They had to count out three cotton wool pads, two eyes and one nose. We talked about stopping when we had reached the given number and used vocabulary including too many and too few to describe different amounts.
Date: 12th Dec 2024 @ 9:19am
In Maths, we have been looking at Multiplication and Division. In one of our lessons we focused on using and applying multiplication facts form the three timetables. The children looked at how to create fact families, use bar models and solve reasoning and problem solving questions.
Date: 9th Dec 2024 @ 10:52am
In Maths, we have been looking at Multiplication and Division. In this lesson we looked at the difference between sharing and grouping. The children used bar models to solve the problems and used base ten to also support them.
Date: 6th Dec 2024 @ 11:51am
Reception have been busy learning all about composition, cardinality and ordinality.
We have been matching the correct amount of objects to numbers 1-10 and understanding that numbers can be made up of different numbers.
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Year 4 - Maths - Multiplying three numbers
Date: 4th Dec 2024 @ 3:13pm
In Maths, we have been multplying three numbers together.
We have been looking at the most efficient ways of finding the product. For example, 2 x 7 x 5, many children spotted that they could multiply the factors 2 and 5 and then multiply 10 by 7.
Date: 27th Nov 2024 @ 4:58pm
We have been reading the story "There's an Alien in Your Book" by Tom Fletcher and we thought it would be fun to make our own Aliens. To do this, the children had to follow some instructions and add the correct number of items to create an Alien. The children were learning to recognise numbers and to count out a given amount of objects from a group.
Date: 27th Nov 2024 @ 3:47pm
Today, we celebrated no pen morning by completing activities without picking up any writing devices. In Reading into Writing, we began our Christmas story unit by immersing ourselves in a variety of christmas adverts that tell a story. We enjoyed watching the adverts before discussing who the main characters were, what the problem and solution were in the story as well as generating adjectives to describe characters and settings. In Maths, we explored adding two 2-digit numbers using base 10 and place value counters to help us; we learnt we need to add the ones first to help us in the future when it crosses a ten.
Date: 27th Nov 2024 @ 11:55am
In Maths, for no pen morning we used our place value knowledge to create a ‘Number Museum’. We were given a number which we had to display in as many ways as possible with Maths resources and other resources around the room. We also had to include a red herring for other groups to try and find when they were visiting our museum. In Reading into Writing, we used our computing skills to edit a WABOLL playscript. To end the morning, we used our oracy and active listening skills. We have been learning about active listening in our 'Skills for Life' lessons and assemblies. We had to ask our pair questions and make sure that we listened to their response and reasoning well enough to retell the rest of the class what we had learnt about each other.
Date: 25th Nov 2024 @ 9:07pm
Today, we were joined by some parents for our Maths lesson. We completed a problem solving activity using our knowledge of number bonds to 10 to form a big triangle. We were then challenged to create our own puzzle using number bonds to 20 for a friend to complete. Thank you to the parents who joined us, it was lovely showcasing our learning with you.
Year 3 - Adding across a ten and a hundred
Date: 14th Nov 2024 @ 8:29pm
We used place value mats and place value counters to practically add two 3-digit number across the tens and hundreds boundary. We physically 'exchanged' 10 ones for a ten before moving it into the tens column. We could see that although we had regrouped the ones, they were still worth the same, for example 13 ones is equal to 1 ten and 3 ones. We did the same when regrouping from the tens to the hundreds column. We used the mats and counters alongside the column method to help develop our understanding of the formal method.
Date: 7th Nov 2024 @ 4:30pm
In our mastery in number sessions this week we have been exploring parts and wholes. Today, we were introduced to the part whole model and how to use it to find two different parts and the whole number they make.
Date: 6th Nov 2024 @ 11:02am
As we continue our Maths journey through addition and subtraction, today we used counters to help us understand adding by making 10 and using it to help us make calculating numbers easier. We made two one-digit numbers with counters using two different colours before we moved some counters up using our number bonds to create a 10 and an easier calculation to work with. Tomorrow we will use this to help us do it abstractly as we will have a good understanding of how it works.
Date: 1st Nov 2024 @ 9:20am
Acorns have been reading Room on the Broom, while exploring Halloween this week. We have enjoyed our sensory story, using props and puppets while listening to the story.
We have participated in lots of spooky activities to support or learning.
We loved using our sensory and messy trays to support and engage with maths activities, develop our fine motor skills and developing our social skills alongside each other.
During Arts and crafts we created pumpkins and ghosts.
Date: 31st Oct 2024 @ 9:36pm
This week we have been celebrating Halloween. As part of our celebrations we have been counting spiders legs! We talked about what 8 looked like and how a spider has 4 legs on each side of its body.The children then counted 4 legs on to each side of their spider and tried really hard to stop when they reached 4!
