Fractions and Proportions for week 4!

1.  What do you know and what can you find out about 1/4? Record it on paper or show it with materials.



2.  3/8 of a circle is coloured red. I cannot remember what colours the rest of the circle were. What might the circle look like?



3.   One third of a class order lunches from the canteen each day. How many students might be in the class and how many of them order lunches each day?



4.  My friend and I ate all of a pizza which was cut into 8 equal pieces. What fraction f the pizza might each of us have eaten?



5.  My aunt said that when she was half her age she could touch her toes. How old might she be now and how old was she when she could touch her toes?

6.  The answer if 3/7. What might the question be?

Maths for the holdiays

1.  One third of a class order lunches from the canteen each day. How many students might be in the class and how many of them order lunches each day?



2.  Two fractions add together to give 1/2. What might those two fractions be?



3.  The answer is 3/7. What might the question be?



4.  How many different ways can you show 2/3?



5.  I picked up a handful of Smarties. One-third of them were red. What might a drawing of the Smarties look like?

Problems for Week 10

1.  Last night I added together two numbers, each with two digits. I got an answer of 67 but I cannot remember what the numbers were. What could be some possibilities?


2.  What might the missing numbers be? There are 6 possibilities.

         ?? ÷ ? = 3 
 
3.  How could you calculate 23 x 4 if the 4 button on your calculator is broken?   


4.  What could you add to 361 to make it divisible by 10? How many solutions can you find? Can you make a rule for this?



5.  Using only your head work out what the missing numbers might be: 2? - 3? = ?0 
   

Problems Week 9 - Measurement - Time

1.   A football match takes 2 hours and 15 minutes. What might be suitable starting and finishing times?

2.  The hour hand is on the 7. The calendar says it is Tuesday. What might be on TV?

3.  I am a month with 31 days. Which month might I be?

4.  What are some things you do each school day between 12 o'clock and 4 o'clock?

5.  Draw a clock and show on it the time you go to bed.

Problems for Week 8

1.  When the children in a class got into groups of four there was one child left over. How many children might there be in the class?
Can anyone do this by using multiplication somewhere?

2.  The answer to a division question is 5. What might the question be?

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4.  A school has 400 students.  They all come to school by bus, and each bus carries the same numbe of students. How many students might there by on each bus?

5.  How could you calculate 17 x 4 if the 4 button on the calculator was broken?

Problems for week 7

1. There are 144 marbles and I want to put them in 12 containers.

2. 66 balls need to go in 6 bags.

Friday:

7 of the birds are red, and ¾ of them are multi-coloured. How many birds in total?

Writing our own reports!!!

Today Mrs Fisher asked us to write our own reports for ALiM - here are some of our thoughts!

Parents - aren't these priceless?

 

Maths hits the pavement!

Read the problems that we wrote today. Can you solve them?

This week we have been focusing on place value - groupings within numbers

Treasure Hunt Day

What a great afternoon we had. Thank you so much to all the parents who came and had some fun hunting for clues in amongst the rain and the wind.

Thank you to the children for racing around , solving riddles and completing maths tasks at each station.

A special thanks to Mrs Fisher for organising the whole afternoon and the HOT CHIPS!

Math Magicians in Action

Check out what we were doing today. Using lots of different materials to create groups and then split groups - multiplication and division in action.