Wednesday 1 April 2009

Making "Addition" Fun - More Practical Maths in Year 5

Counting signs on the fence and doubling answers.

Numbers are all around us. Adding together registration numbers


How many kg? Double the amount.


Red hoola hoops cost £10, green hoops £8 and blue hoops £15. How much to buy all the red and green hoops? Get counting!

We are applying our addition knowledge to practical situations - da iawn! You've got a lot to go though Katie.


Counting window panes is easy, but what do you have to do with your answer?


Read the question carefully boys!


Get sorting you two. You need to add all the grapes and bananas and then run to the next box to finish the challenge.


Year 5 have been improving their addition skills this morning. We've been learning outside the classroom. Seven stations were set up around the yard and every station was linked to addition in some way.Look at the photos and you can see the children thinking EXTREMELY hard.

Here are how some of the children felt about the lesson:


Maria - "I enjoyed trying to add up Mrs Marlow and Miss Newton's birth years together - gosh they're old!!!"

Will - "I think it's better doing maths outside as it's fun and you still learn the same amount"

Ebony - "Today I found it really exciting in maths because we went outside and improved our adding"

Harry and Alex - "We really enjoyed this morning doing maths. We were solving problems on the yard involving multi link, playing an adding game with dice and the chess board and working out money problems with hoola hoops"

Mrs Marlow

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