A Pirate Times Table Hunt!!

This week as part of our maths we are practising our times tables, our 2's, 5's and 10's. We went on a pirates times table hunt around the hall to practise. We had to find the questions and then work out the answer, writing it on out clipboards......

Remember to keep practising at home!!!!!

Play on the table trees times table game HERE we are focusing on 2's 5's and 10's but if you want to try any of the others feel free to!!

SUMDOG!!

I am so excited to see all the children buzzing about our new maths programme 'Sumdog'. So far Olivia is out top Sumdog gamer at the moment.......she has answered 240 questions!!!


Click on the link below to access the site....

Practical Maths Problems!!

In maths at the moment we are working on our underlying maths skills to solve practical maths problems. This mean we are solving a range of word problems by deciding whether we need to use addition, subtraction, multiplication or division skills, and then what do we need to do with the numbers to work out the answer? 

We have been trying these skills with soldiers from the Crimean War this week!!

Have a go at this one...

If there are 8 soldiers in the Scutari hospital and each of them need 2 bandages, how many bandages would Florence need all together?

and this one...

If there are 15 soldiers in the hospital and 4 get better and go back out to the war, and 5 more go home, how many are left?

What about this tricky one....?

There are 26 soldiers in the hospital laying in beds, and 33 soldiers sat on chairs,, how many soldiers altogether? (You may need to use partitioning and a blank number line for this)

Here are a few of us tackling some problems in class...

Soldiers Maths Problems on PhotoPeach

Fun Maths Morning with Year 5!

This morning we had a fun practical maths morning across school and year 2 mixed with year 5 to take part in a range of activities to develop our problem solving skills. I was very proud of the enthusaism and team work displayed over the morning and we all had a fabulous time!

Here is the problem solving game that was on the IWB...can you get the wolf, goat and cabbage across the river safely? Have a go by clicking HERE

Here are some of the things we were getting up to...