Fifth Class Blog
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Halloween Maths Week- Exploring Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
Through slicing up a bairín breac, we discussed and compared fractions. We then converted the fractions to decimals and percentages. In the end, we all had a tasty slice of breac and some of the girls found the precious ring! 💍
Halloween Maths Week- Estimating and weighing gourds using mechanical and digital weighing scales
Halloween Maths Week- Conkers
The girls wrote the digits 0-9 on conkers, we had collected during our Daily Mile. The activity involved picking out 4/5 conkers, putting those numbers in order, to create the biggest and smallest numbers. Who would have thought, so much fun could be had with conkers? ☺ The girls explored all the mathematical operations with the conkers.
Halloween Maths Week- Writing word problems, adding and subtracting money
Halloween Maths Week- Creating 2D and 3D shapes using spaghetti and marshmallows
Halloween Maths Week- Measuring Pumpkins 🧙
To celebrate Maths Week, we split into six groups to complete Halloween themed Maths activities. The first station, involved estimating the height and circumference of four large 🎃. We used cubes to help with our estimations. We used string to gage the height and circumference. Using rulers, we measured the string to find out that Ms Hall has the widest and tallest pumpkin.
