Recently, 3TE have been actively traversing around the classroom to solve a range of mathematical problems. Our mathematical movement has engaged our minds and worked our brains and ensured our mathematical abilities continue to expand, multiply, enlarge… and however many more mathematical synonyms for increasing you can think of!
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Crew Brunel: Finishing Half Term Strong @ XP
Building Bright Ideas for a Better Planet @ Norton Infants
The Last Straw: Making Maths Fair and Square @ Norton Juniors
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If you think making shapes is easy, try handing a group of determined students a tricky polygon problem! This week, in class, we entered into the world of geometry by challenging the children to make squares using exactly six straws.
At first glance, it sounds impossible—after all, a standard square only needs four sides. Did we draw the short straw with this lesson plan? Not a chance!
What followed was a beautiful display of grit and determination. At times, it might have felt like they were literally grasping at straws, but the children worked tirelessly. They experimented with different angles, overlaps, and spatial reasoning, showing incredible courage and resilience in the face of a genuinely puzzling task.
I am so proud to report that every single student got there in the end!
Great work 4GC!
This week, 3TE have been developing their division skills with a variety of challenges, including this particular activity where the children were traversing around the room solving a variety of problems using a newly discovered method. The children have since expanded this knowledge even further with addtional methods and even harder problems. Keep up making those division discoveries!
Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust!
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G30 Beautiful Work @ XP Gateshead
Chinese New Year Festival @ Norton Infants
An Unforgettable Ski Trip to Pila with Our School Students @ XP East
Magnificent Mathematical Treasure Hunt @ Norton Juniors
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This week, Year 3 were given a secret mission… Treasure had been stolen and hidden somewhere in school! The Year 3 children were tasked to use their multiplication skills in order to solve a range of questions, crack a code and figure out where the treasure was hidden! These super sleuths were courageous, resilient and showed great endevour to find the treasure. Well done all of your delightful detectives!
This week 3SG have had such a wonderful time learning about the grid method for multiplication in maths. To celebrate their success, we had a little treasure hunt, where the children not only had to complete some hard hitting equations, but then break the code to find the hidden treasure too! Much fun was had 😀
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