Bean Bag Buckets

We've been LOVING practising our number bonds by playing Bean Bag Buckets. Come and ask us to show you how it's played. It's a lot of fun! 

Sharing Equally

These amazing mathematicians worked so well on sharing groups of 'marbles' between Max the Puppy and Kermit the Frog that I asked them whether they could try and share a bigger group of marbles between three animals. They managed to work out how to equally share them really quickly.

Super skills, mathematicians!

Number Race

One of our big class maths targets at the moment is to be able to count backwards from twenty. Lots of us find it a bit tricky. We've been enjoying practising our skills by playing 'Number Race', a game where boys and girls race to put the number cards/bean bags in the right order first.

Do you know how to count back to zero from twenty?

We can share things equally

We had lots of fun this afternoon helping Kermit the Frog and Max the Puppy share different things from our classroom equally. We helped them to share groups of cubes, bears, even scissors. 

We found that some numbers could be shared out equally, but when you tried to share some other numbers it didn't seem fair because one of the animals always got an extra one. 

Which numbers can be shared equally? Can you see a pattern in them? 

We can give clear instructions

This afternoon we practised giving clear instructions to a partner. We had to sit back to back with a partner, and one of us had to make a pattern with beads. Then we had to describe it carefully so that our partner could make the same pattern on their string. It's trickier than it sounds!

Max and Kermit's Sharing Problem

Max the Puppy and Kermit the Frog have collected all of their marbles together for a game. They know that the total number is more than 10. They also know that the marbles can be shared out equally. 

After lots of talk about what the word equal means we worked in pairs to try and help our animal friends solve their problem. 

It was fantastic to see pairs improve at working together while they tried to solve the problem, and to begin to understand that the wrong answers are often just as useful as the right ones. 

Platefuls of tasty addition and subtraction

Yesterday afternoon one of our Maths groups worked with Rasha to practise their addition and subtraction skills. They did a super job of calculating the answers to some tricky questions. And, of course, they got to eat the raisins for all their hard work!

Well done, mathematicians!