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Fun and games in Maths Week at Eden
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4 th - 8 th saw pupils at Eden Park Primary School spend a week
enjoying a range of learning activities focusing on maths and
involving lots of fun! |
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| Problem solving with
Hattie Maths, the Mathematical Clown, proved to be extremely entertaining
and challenging, as pupils counted with the aid of frogs and looked
at geometrical shapes created in balloons and bubbles. Having
been a teacher of maths at all levels from reception to University
students, Sue Brown (Hattie) decided to combine her love of Clowning
with her teaching skills and had pupils at Eden Park calculating
answers from a wide range of number games and antics. www.hattiemaths.com
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Thursday morning pupils went on a Math's Trail, with groups
going from classroom to classroom, where they found staff had
set up more unusual ways to explore mathematical problems and
solutions based on a variety of themes. |
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| Pupils from Key Stage
1 and 2 were mixed in together as they travelled around. Waiting
for them were tasks designed for their different ages in the group,
with team work often required. Some activities, such as the water
obstacle race, encouraged everyone to work together on the capacity
mathematical problem, no matter what their age! |
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Exploring
shape, younger pupils made straw pyramids and geometric forms,
whilst an older team in the same room built a sculpture, starting
with a cuboid made out of rolled-up newspaper.
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were many different measuring activities, including finding
out the diameters of trees, plotting leaf shapes whilst checking
out their symmetry, and teams using a trundle stick to calculate
lengths around the school. |
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Pupils found weighing
ingredients and making cakes extremely enjoyable, with many
pupils commenting "I never realised that maths was such fun!"
They were certainly inspired to keep calculating and problem
solving, which was the aim of teacher Adele Hall, who organised
the event, with the support of all the staff. A well-planned
set of manoeuvres had pupils moving smoothly around, keen to
try their hand at the next task. |
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