Maths Buddies

Maths Buddies began several weeks ago in Room 5. We have been getting to know each other with number work. From next Monday we will have Maths Stations each morning. The activities will include:

Number

Shape and space

Computer work

Data 

Measurement

Games

Big Buddies from Room 11

Ellen                               Aaron

Faith                               Gearóid

Rasaq                             Tia

 Small Buddies from Room 2

Samuel                           Daniel

Khadija                          Josh

Ciara                              Norbert

New Brainteasers

Cross-country Race

Some athletes were returning from a cross-country race. Athlete C came third, and athlete E came second. From the following information, can you tell how athletes A, B, and D came in the race?
Athlete A was not last. Athlete A came in after E. Athlete D was not first.

Cats and dogs

All of Tom’s pets are dogs except one. All of his pets are cats except one. How many cats and dogs does Tom have?

Source: Discover Education

Odd one out

Which number is the odd one out? Why?

3	33	15	36
12	27	34	18
72	39	30	6
24	21	9	42

Source: Scholastic, Mensa Number Puzzle for Kids

2D Shapes

We worked on 2D Shapes in Mrs Quinn’s Room. Some people worked on geo-boards (Mrs Quinn told us the name). They were exploring how to show different shapes. What do you think?

Other children decided to make shape people. Have you ever met people like the people we made?

Congratulations

Everyone worked very hard this term. Keep up the good work!

Shapes

We worked on 2D shapes with Mrs Quinn. Afterwards we cut out lots of our favourite shapes. We glued them on paper to make beautiful designs. What do you think ?

Angela, Conor, Ebony, Michael, Nathan and Jade

Adding

We were adding with our Tens and Units boards. We added numbers like this

   Tens         Units

      2             7

 +   1             5

We got strange numbers like 3 Tens and 12 Units. You cannot see that on the 100 square. We learned how to fix it.

We swapped 10 Units for 1 Ten. That’s a fair swap. We made a new Ten to add to the other Tens. Our answer was 4 Tens and 2 Units. That number is 42. 42 is on the 100 square. Well done.

We worked on Mrs Quinn’s interactive whiteboard as well.

First Class Rooms 1 and 9

More Brainteasers

Well done to Conor, Michael and Leah in Room 7. They solved the puzzles. It took a few days, but they got there.

Here are some more brainteasers. Remember to read each word carefully and to think in different ways. Bring your answers to Room 5.

1.     Tom was standing on one side of the river, and his dog Spot was standing on the other side. "Come on Spot. Here, boy!" shouted Tom. Spot crossed the river, ran to Tom, and got a treat for being a good dog. The amazing thing was that Spot didn't even get wet!

          How did Spot do that?

2.     One day, two mothers and two daughters went shopping for shoes. They each bought one pair of shoes. Altogether, they had three pairs.

          How is this possible?

Source: Discovery Education