It all adds up to 2015

With the school year coming to a close the children in Ganges class have spent some time reflecting on their learning over the past year. Here are some of their thoughts on how their maths understanding has developed over that time. Have a great summer everyone.

Summertime maths fun!

Sitting in an area

 The recent good weather has given Ganges class the opportunity to take their learning outside. Thinking about perimeter and area seemed just perfect to get into the playground to draw a range of large shapes to then use as the basis for our calculations. Plus it is much more fun than using our books!

Using column addition

Did you know that the word perimeter can be split into 'peri' and 'meter'. 'Peri' means around and 'meter' means measure - around and measure. That makes it easier to remember if you swap the words around - perimeter means 'measure around'. Easy!

Once we remember that we can then remember that the 'area' is the inside part of the shape and we know that we have to include a tiny number ²  when we are writing the answer.

You can see we have a great deal of fun doing our maths outside