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Foundation Stage and KS1 managed to fit in a great variety of exciting Maths activities, both inside and outside the classroom. Amongst those starting with Nursery and ending with Year 2, were: making biscuits and counting smarties to decorate them; counting leaves and sticks and comparing 'Who has most/least?'; number triangles; making numbers using straws and beads, Buddy's key challenge, outside number square writing and hopping, making ‘teen’ numbers with many different maths resources; number bingo; a ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’ quiz; writing number words and many more. As you can see in the photos, the children were very enthusiastic and totally engrossed in their number games.
In Key Stage 2 we have had a fun Number Day! The children arrived wearing a creative range of numbered accessories and took part in a range of activities. The children in Years 3 and 4 took part in a Measure Treasure Hunt where they paired up with a partner from the other class and tried to answer a number of tricky questions. Each answer they found then led them on to the next question. Some of the classes took part in a ‘Who Wants to be Mathionaire’ competition: working in pairs they had to agree on 12 answers to the quiz questions and then ‘lock in’ their answers by showing the teacher the agreed letter which corresponded to the answer on the board. The classes also took part in the Mike Askew – ‘Square Difference’ activity from the Number Day website and tried to prove him wrong! They used everything from 1-digit numbers, 2-digit numbers, decimals, negative numbers, fractions and very large numbers to investigate Askew’s challenge. Some children were even challenged to try different shapes. In Year 6 children also created some abstract pieces of Number Art in pencil and watercolour inspired by the work of Jasper Johns. In addition, Mrs Overy even managed to incorporate number into all of today’s PE lesson!
