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maths week 2023

Ms.Brunner

What an exciting maths and numeracy week we had! 🙂

Look for yourself:

Launching maths week with a whole school assembly and an Ipad challenge all about PLACE VALUE

Royal Mile learners buddying up and completing a playground challenge all about

TELLING THE TIME:

Maths walks and more outdoor learning:

Outing to the MONEY MUSEUM:

and lots of positive feedback about activities pupils enjoyed…

such as QR code online games and singing number songs in different languages 🙂

And now to the big reveal of the PLACE VALUE RIDDLE:

and the answer is…

Already looking forward to

next year – 2024! 🙂

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Primary Five Home Learning Week Commencing 9th October 2023

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Spelling- qu

This week’s spelling pattern is the ‘qu’ sound. The words are listed below. To practice the words children should write read the word out loud, break it down to its sounds, cover it over and then try to write the word. Tick it if it is correct, try again if not.

Core Words

quit, quiz, queen, quick, quote, squeal

Mild Words

quench, quality, quiet, squeak

Hot words

squeeze, question, quarter, quiver

You can also try to split the words into its sounds. You can show a single letter making a sound with a dot and a double letter making a sound with a line under both letters.

quiz- qu i z

Maths and Numeracy

Look at the maths trails primary five made last week in class. Create your own maths trail in your home, garden or local environment.

Learning Across the Curriculum

In class this week we have been looking at the poetry of Grace Nichols. The focus has been on onomatopoeia and metaphors. Come up with some metaphors to describe things in your home or local area.

i.e. Arthur’s Seat is a sleeping giant in the middle of the city.

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Primary Five Maths Trails

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As part of our learning this week, primary five went out on to the Royal Mile to create maths trails. We used our local environment to create questions using a range of maths skills. Look at the question trails we made below. You could even challenge yourself to complete one of the class trails over the weekend!

p5-maths-trailDownload
p5-maths-trail-sariah-nyah-rebecca-noah-frankieDownload
p5-maths-trail-ali-neki-yurii-iona-and-finlayDownload
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Primary Five Home Learning Week Commencing 2/10/23

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Spelling Words

This week’s spelling words will focus on the ‘gn’ sound, or silent ‘g’ sound.

You can use the sound chart to spot different sounds. You could even try to read them out of order to check for understanding.

Core words

Gnat

Gnash

Gnaw

Gnarly

Gnome

Gnarled

Mild

Gnomes

Sign

Design

Reign

Hot

Sovereign

Campaign

Resign

Foreign

Maths and Numeracy

Please complete some of the activities from the mental agility grid linked below.

mental-agility-addition-and-subtractionDownload

Learning Across the Curriculum

Create a quiz to test your classmates on their knowledge of the Ancient Greeks. We will go over them in class on Friday.

Have a great week!

Mr McPheely

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Mental Agility Second level

Ms.Brunner

Hi and welcome to the second section of our MENTAL AGILITY rainbow this term!

Until Christmas our school will focus on ADDITION and SUBTRACTION!

Please find attached activities children work on in class.

We would really appreciate your support in practising them at home too!

Second Level 6 Indigo Addition and SubtractionDownload

One of our main aims is for children to be competent with numbers.

Pupils are introduced to a new mathematical concept through the use of concrete resources (e.g. fruit, Dienes blocks etc). When they are comfortable solving problems with physical aids, they are given problems with pictures – usually pictorial representations of the concrete objects they were using.

Then they are asked to solve problems where they only have the abstract i.e. numbers or other symbols. Building these steps across a lesson can help pupils better understand the relationship between numbers and the real world, and therefore helps secure their understanding of the mathematical concept they are learning.

Most Second level learners are ready to move on from concrete materials and focus on pictorial and abstract methods. An increasing understanding of number allows transitioning through the approaches.

It is vital to have a variety of strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems.

Here are some examples:

At second level learners will also work with numbers up to/beyond one Million, decimal, percentages and fractions as well as negative numbers:

Take a look at this amazing website, have a go at the games or quizzes!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z2wrf82