This week, Anne Dale has been involved in a Maths Week, with the past days filled with interesting and exciting Maths activities across the curriculum. Almost all lessons were themed around adventure parks, including Islands of Adventure, Paulton’s Park and Chessington!
Year 3 were involved with Maths work in partnership with the Infant school, working on problem solving as a team. Other children designed theme park flags (using symmetry), designed their own theme parks (using skills in perimeter) and entered the SumDog challenges.
Year 4 were translating shapes to different locations, using arrays for seating designs in roller coasters, learning how to use negative co-ordinates and working using money for entrance prices at park gates!
Year 5 worked on using area and perimeter with their theme park maps, using keys on maps as well as linking this to work with money on spending a construction budget. Children drew and annotated their park maps, with one group spending over £462,000 of their budget!
Year 6 worked with problem solving activities using trial and error, based on a coconut shy and the infamous Hook-a-duck game! Children in Year 6 also visited Crofton Secondary school, working with the staff and pupils there. These children also received a talk from students from Portsmouth University about how they use Maths!
To explore more from Anne Dale’s Maths week, have a look at the other Blog posts here.
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[Written by Mr Thorns]