Maths in Room One this week
Everyone like a cup cake right? But if you have a party you have to make sure everyone has the same amount of smarties on them if you want to avoid your guests arguing! We have taken this serious problem into our maths lessons this week to figure out how to equally share out Smarties.
The Great Cover Up!
As part of our learning about measurement we have been using non-standard but familiar units as a measuring device. The children were given the opportunity to cover the surface of a wide range of chalk shapes using different sized blocks and lolly sticks.
Covering surfaces with a single unit also lead to discussion about shapes that tessellate, and are therefore useful for covering surfaces, and those that don’t. For example, rectangles and squares tessellate the plane, whereas circles don’t. Tessellating with non-standard units establishes the need to cover surfaces without leaving gaps and without overlapping.
1 comments:
That looks like an awesome maths learning activity. We would like to try that too. From Room 28.
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