Maths - Problem of the week

Pirate Swords
On the pirate ship there are 24 pirate swords. Each pirate
has 2 swords.If half the pirates lost a sword in battle and a
quarter of the pirates each gained a new sword, how many
swords would there now be on the pirate ship?
If a third of the swords were then lost how many would
there be left?

Learning Time

We made a classroom clock today and used our new "swipe pads" to convert analogue to digital time. We are making our own individual clocks tomorrow.




Time Measurement
End of Year 3
Measure the duration of events, using linear whole number scales and applying basic addition facts to standard units

End of year 4
Measure the duration of events, reading scales to the nearest whole number, and applying addition, subtraction, and simple multiplication to standard units

Level 2
1. Use digital and analogue time - ½ past and O’Clock times
2. use a calendar to find information
3. Convert between both analogue and digital clocks

Level 3
4. Read minutes past and minutes to ( digital and analogue)
5. Compare and convert 24 hour ( digital and analogue )
6. Add and subtract times

Maths strategies

These are an example of some of the strategies we have been using to solve addition and subtraction problems


At the end of year 3 children should be able to use these strategies to solve problems




At the end of year 4 children should be able to mentally partition numbers to make tidy numbers



By the end of year 5 children should be able to use efficient part whole strategies to solve subtraction problems

Interactive Cludeo

Last day of term room 1 and 2 playing Cromwell Detective

Self directed learning

What are alloys? Jacob, Michael and Lincoln worked together to research and present their findings all about alloys, still a page to come they tell me. They chose their topic and decided themselves to use publisher to communicate their findings. Well done boys, you have done very well going further independently in your inquiry about gold.