Maths is everywhere!

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Maths this term has been really interesting. We have done a lot of practical maths which has been so much fun! Every Monday we turn into detectives and use maths to solve murder mysteries. Some of us are going to be great policemen one day!

Last week we brought in board games.

When we were playing them we were actually doing maths. For example in the game of Monopoly we were using money, counting and probability. It was great to be so rich and to be able to buy so many houses and hotels. It wasn’t much fun being sent to prison though!

Another group played a game called Life . The aim of this  game is to make a  new life for yourself. In this game they  used lots of different maths operations such as adding and dividing. Again this was another game which involved the use of money and probablity

We are also trying really hard to improve our times tables. Although we know them, we are trying to be faster with our responses. Every week we do mini competitions and its really exciting. We really are getting faster at them!

This term we have also looked at area and perimeter which will help us to grow up and be architects. Now we are looking at how to represent different statistics in tables and in different types of graphs. Miss Vicki was upset that we don’t eat pie charts!! On Friday we are going to collect our own information and put our findings into a graph of our choice.

We have learnt a lot of different maths and in a lot of fun ways!

Roger Pelaez and Paula Guilera

 

 

PROBABILITY

Hello, my name is Martina and I am a student of 4A.

Today I’m going to explain to you about what we have been doing in our maths class. Recently we have been learning about probability. First we played a fun game in pairs using coins. We enjoyed a lot. The game consist of  throwing one coin and predicting if the coin throw would show us a head or a tail. We had to count how many times we got tail or a head. Afterwards we had been working with a text book called Abacus text book 3. In this book we did very different activities about probability. We also did the same activity with a six sided dice. Predicting which number would be rolled and then recording our answers. This showed show us the probability that each number would rolled.  We had lots of  fun.

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From: Paulina and Martina.

 

Probability Is Cool!

Today in mathematics we have studied probability. It is a very interesting subject

and we have had lots of fun throwing a dice with our partners in class!!

You should try this activity, its great!

Miss Margaret.

ACTIVITY:

Material: a pencil, a small piece of paper and a 1 to 6 dice.

How to play: throw the dice 12 times and record each result.

Then repeat again and again.

Look and compare your results.

You can play by yourself or with others.

 What did you discover?

Multiplication Tables

Good Morning boys and girls!

Last Friday primary 4 had to study some multiplication tables for homework.

I’ve posted a great website to help you learn and memorise your tables!

Let’s get started and have fun too!

Remember to let me know what you think about this website.

Hoping to hear from you soon,

Miss Margaret

http://www.multiplication.com/