Directions

Primary three turned their hands to Beebot programming today-they designed and built their mazes and then directed the Beebots through the route by entering the commands for the little bee. They also tried following directions using the compass points and giving directions using compass points!

The Beets and the maze.

One activity allowed children to consolidate their understanding of rounding to the nearest 10.

The lengths they go to!

Primary 3 pupils have been learning about length: estimating and measuring lengths using metres and centimetres and the children have had a huge variety of measuring devices to try: metres sticks, tape measures and rulers. They have been outside measuring in the playground and inside measuring classroom furniture and using tape measures to measure their partner!

Building a metre high tower of Lego-a remarkable feat of engineering which required a LOT of perserverance!

They children were excited to show me what they had been learning about static electricity with Miss Beatty.

Hair raising science!

Outdoor Maths

Primary 3 took to the playground to measure different places and things using non-standardised units of measure: their feet and handspans! They estimated the height/length of their chosen item and then measured it.

Litter Survey

Litter is the compulsory topic which very school must work on in order to gain their Green Flag award. P3 carried out a survey of litter on the grassy pitch and used tally marks to record the information.

Data Handling

Primary 3 has been trying different ways to record data-using pictograms, tally marks, carroll diagrams and next will be venn diagrams. They had different objects and materials to sort and for some tasks they had to decide what the criteria was for organising the items. Here's a sample of what they got up to!

Some sorted by colour...

Placing information onto a carroll diagram.

Number bonds for mental maths

Working together to sort the shapes by colour.

Number bonds game generated by the dominoes.

Carroll diagrams

Sorting by shape and colour

Using the criteria to place the cards on the diagrams

Working together and making up their own sorting criteria.