Thursday 26 November 2009

MATHS MATHS MATHS - WHAT A FUN PROBLEM SOLVING DAY

What a great problem solving day we had last Friday!
As usual, Mrs Marlow has put the photos on in reverse order, so our first activity is at the end! Not to worry!
Here we can see our number winners with their Pudsey bear biscuits! Well done - fantastic costumes.

Here we can see two of our girls on the coordinates trail around the school. Did they find the telephone number for elite systems on the side of Mrs Pope's classroom?


Number Fun out in the yard.
Here we can see the children being challenged and using plenty of thinking skills!
They were challenged to split into teams and get from one side of the pitch to the other without standing outside the hoops. The children loved the exercise!








This must have been one of the most fun sessions of the day. We can see the children playing a game that Mrs Marlow used to play in brownies.....yes I can remember all those years ago!
The game involves telling a story and whenever a number is mentioned, the children have to run down the middle, around the sides and back to their seats as quickly as possible, trying to beat their opposite number.




















The second session of the day involved lots and lots of dolly mixtures!
The children were challenged to predict the number in the bag, predict the weight of the bag and predict the total length of the dolly mixtures if they were in a line touching each other.








The children enjoyed counting and finding out how near they were to their predictions and most of all enjoyed eating the dolly mixtures!





































Techniquest came to Pontyclun Primary School! J5 and J6 were maths detectives and listened to a series of videos about a burglary. They had to then use their maths skills and work out who committed the crime.



























2 comments:

  1. To,Miss and SirI've only just been looking through these photos!!!
    this was really fun,finding out what the Answer was.




    <3caitlin<3

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  2. Hi,
    I have just finshed looking at the photos, and had a really good time on number day it was fun :-)
    From Bryony!

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