Maths frog investigation

 

Year 5 have recently been undertaking lots of maths investigations. This one involves two families of frogs who wish to swap sides to the other side of the pond.

• There are 7 lily pads which the frogs must use to cross the pond.
• Frogs can only jump to empty lily pads.
• Frogs can only jump over one other frog at a time.
• Frogs don't know how to jump backwards!

Many of the children were able to find the answer to the investigation. However it became a lot harder to record how they achieved it and demonstrate their answer to someone else. 

ELLI Meaning Making

 Year 6 making connections with key maths vocabulary.

Making 3D shapes from nets

 

Fun with fractions

 Today, Year 5 enjoyed finding out fractions of different coloured Smarties.

Rounding puzzles

Today in maths Year 5 worked on rounding numbers. The class was set a challenge of answering a rounding questions puzzle, which when answered correctly should make the shape of a hexagon or rhombus.

Bristol/community Questionnaire

For homework Year 5 interviewed family and friends to find out more about Bristol and our community. We collected our results and then represented it in bar and pie charts.

Probability

Today Year 6 looked at probability. The children undertook a probability investigation and then went on to create their own weather forecasts.

  

Investigating barcodes

Today Year 6 investigated barcodes.  The final digit in a barcode is the checking digit used to confirm the number has been scanned correctly. The children undertook barcode calculations to see if they could get the checking digit.  They also explored the starting numbers of barcodes to see where products come from.

Code breaking

Year 6 code breaking to solve a crime.

Polyominoes

Today for maths we explored polyominoes.