Archive for the 'Numeracy' Category

Blogging Tasks

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

This afternoon we are going to be checking out these links to some sites that will help us with our revision.
> Primary Games
> Multiflyer - planet times table practice!
> BBC Skillswise
> BBC Schools - Literacy / Spellits!
> The Big Bus 
Hope you enjoy the session - why not leave a comment about which site you enjoyed […]

Blogging Tasks

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

This afternoon I would like you to explore some mental arithmetic tests online, use your headphones and answer the questions with your partner. You need to enter the answers using the keyboard.
If you have finished, you can explore some more of the Carroll diagram work we have been doing over at this site.
Of course you […]

Data Handling

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

This week we have been revising data handling - we have looked at line graphs and yesterday bar graphs.
This is a bar graph we have created for a set of tables test scores (out of 40 marks)

Can you answer these questions?

How many more children scored 26-30 points than 6-10 points?
Which range of scores did the […]

SATS!!!

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

In the last few days we have been working up to our Sat’s. All our class have done a Sat’s practice paper yesterday and it was a maths test. And we done test B in maths today, me and Hannah can’t wait till we get our results back from our teachers (Mrs Bloomfield and Mr […]

Mathematics test

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Today we completed a maths booklet all on mathematical questions some hard and some easy. For some the calculator was useful for some questions we worked out mentally. It was a fantastic challenge and hopefully we will have got most answers right fingers crossed.
Alanya and Lorna from priestsic6

Timez Attack

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

We had a look at this great little times tables game on Friday, there is a free version that you can download at home. We will get them installed on the school machines and get using it after half term.

If you download it, why not leave a post or comment about what you thought of […]

Our Maths Lesson

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Hi i’m Courtney and i’m going to tell you what our maths lesson has been like today.We have been doing patterns and it has been really fun and my maths table teacher (Mrs Bloomfield) has really helped me alot, anyway here is a example of a pattern we have done - try and solve it.
There […]

Problem solving

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

We have been doing about problems in maths. Some have been really tricky but some are easy.
And today we looked at this question:every year a person gets their age in candles eg.when 1 years old 1 candle.
Altogether how many candles would the person have blown out at 75 years old.
Please post a comment.

!!Maths that drives you mental!!

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

In maths today we have been driven mental by this difficult maths.
Can you find out the way to solve it?
You can only use a number once.
Each row of 3 must add up to 15.
All 8 houses must equal 36.

FANTASTIC FRACTIONS**

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

In year 6 I thought that all the work would be really hard especially maths and fractions because I thought that I had forgotten all I leart last year on fractions. So I thought but as soon as we started doing fractions it just clicked and every thing just came back to me.And from then on through […]

Darcy’s compound shape

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

Last week in maths we have been looking at the area of a compound shape.

Number Numeracy

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

Today we did the counting up method I didn’t get the work but Mr Barrett is always there to help me, I only did 2 and I had to work with someone - it was cool.
Charmaine

Google Earth in Maths

Friday, September 29th, 2006

We used Google Earth in our numeracy lesson today. It was just so much fun! Maths in Vegas is basically a set of placemarks detailing some maths activities in and around the city. We also looked at Maths in Madrid!

So we have been looking at the area of compound shapes and generally exploring 2D and […]

Karla’s first post

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

In maths we all did compound shapes and I thought it was great fun.
In literacy today Mr O’Brien read the rest of Dracula and it is really interesting.

Autobiography; groovy grid; phototastic!

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

We have been planning an autobiography about a fairy tale character. At the moment we are all writing about Little Red Riding Hood and her extended family etc Somebody even had the Mirror on the wall as part of the family! Have a look at our WIKI
Today in Numeracy we have been doing the groovy […]