Maths – Decimal Numbers This was tricky because we had a mixture of fractions, decimal numbers and percentages to plot along a number line. We have been working outside and using the whiteboards and pens and coning off a number line. We have marked off ¼, 90%, 75%, 0.1, 1.2, 4/4, 4 & 1 on … Read more
Maths We’re doing area and perimeter of irregular (odd) shapes. We have been learning to put a 1cm grid over the shape, then we counted the whole squares, then we counted the partial squares. if it looks obvious that some partial squares will make a whole we count that as 1. We added up the … Read more
Numeracy We have been looking at area and perimeter. We know that to find the area of a quadrilateral we multiply the length by the width. But when you are trying to find the area of a compound shape, the shapes needs to be split into separate quadrilaterals, calculate the area of each, then add … Read more
Mr Morton returns! Maths We started the week reviewing and sharpening up on our fractions knowledge. Then we went onto Area and Perimeter, working in small groups to calculate the answer, which can be sometimes a missing number on the shape. We have been introduced to simple algebra – the ’x’ is called the … Read more
Maths We are working in teams going through some fractions problems. We have to make sure everybody in the team knows how to complete, answer the question, and justify our finding through reasoning (which just means explain it completely). English Newspaper Report writing. We have been discussing and looking into various newspapers and identifying the … Read more
Math We looked at fractions and decimals and putting them on a number line. We have been changing the fraction into a decimal and the decimal back into a fraction. English FORMAL & INFORMAL? We have learning to identify the features of these writing styles. RE We are looking at Islam. This religion is based … Read more
Math We have continued to work on fractions but doing them as word problems. It is important to look at the problem and find the ‘whole’ or the ‘parts’ whatever information we have been given. English We are writing up what we did in half term. Sounds easy, we are doing it in the form … Read more
Maths This week we are putting together own fractions booklet. We have thought about each of the different areas of knowledge that we have been working on recently and have come up with …. Each one is going to be a chapter. What is a fraction? (numerator and denominator) What does a fraction look like? … Read more
Maths We’ve been learning how to find fractions of a whole number, such as “Find 10/12 of 1320”. To arrive at the answer we need to draw a bar model to help us visual what we are doing. Step 1 = 1320 divided by 12 (the bottom number on the fraction which is called the … Read more
Maths We have been exploring fractions this week. Equivalent fractions means it’s the same amount of shape but the shape has been divided up into a different number of pieces. We have been learning to add and subtract fractions, which have answers with mixed numbers. Mixed numbers means = a whole number with a fraction … Read more
