Monday 19 May 2014

Year 6 Take Part in Maths Challenge

   On the morning of Friday 16th of May, the year 6 classes gathered in the school hall for Fun Maths Activities. We were surrounded by 14 tables with activities for us to do, to progress our maths in a fun way as SAT’s were over.  We were put in groups of threes and then we set to work solving the problems. 

 Some of them were to do with division, some to do with brackets or multiplication, and some simply to work together as a team. One of us had to read the instructions off an instruction sheet, one had to do the problem and the other had to time the person doing the activity. The question had a time limit- 4 minutes, 3 minutes or 2; it depended on how hard the question was.

The activities were placed in the courtyard as well as the hall. Some of the problems were really difficult- such as a puzzle called The Mask. There were 12 pieces of a puzzle of an African mask that we had to put together in 3 minutes or under. This puzzle was to do with teamwork and listening to each other. The person with the instructions had to read them out to the person doing the problem, in the best way they could without showing them the sheet. It took teamwork.

There were also easy questions such as a problem where you had 4 mathematical symbols (=, +, x and division). You had a sheet with numbers on it which, if you put the symbols in the right place, they would equal 100.

It was an exciting, fun way to spend our morning whilst doing maths, without getting bored and everyone enjoyed the experience. Most of us, we would think, would like to do it again sometime.
Thanks to Mrs Beddow for organising it.

Report by Florrie and Francesca
Photos by Mr Brook