In continuing the Café Project the class looked at the properties of 2D shapes – this time it was the square as it is another of the most commonly used shape in numerous building designs. We then had a reminder…

This week we spent another lesson on the area of a circle which is on the MyMaths website under Library – Shape – Area & Perimeter – Area of Circles. In continuing the Café Project the class had some more…

This week the class were calculating the area of circles. This is on the MyMaths website under Library – Shape – Area & Perimeter – Area of Circles. In continuing the Café Project we looked at how buildings are constructed…

We continued work on the Café Project – finishing the scale drawings of the site. The next couple of lessons involved investigating the link between the diameter and the circumference of a circle followed by work on calculating the circumference…

We continued work on the Café Project with work on scale drawing which is on the MyMaths website under Library – Shape – Scale & Similarity – Scale Drawing. We discussed how scale drawings are used in real life, and…

We continued work on the Café Project with more work on calculating areas of rectangles & triangles and this is on the MyMaths website under Library – Shape – Areas of Rectangles and also Areas of Triangles. This was followed…

We continued work on the Café Project with another period of work on calculating perimeter of a shape and this is on the MyMaths website under Library – Shape – Area and Perimeter – Perimeter. We also did some practical…

We started work on the Café Project with assigning the class into their groups and then getting practical experience of actually measuring lengths. This is on the MyMaths website under Library – Shape – Measures – Measuring Length. The class…

Last week the class sat a test on all the topics covered up to Friday 13th December. The topics in the test were Estimating & Rounding and Number Processes (add, subtract, multiply and divide) for Whole Numbers and Decimals, Symmetry,…

We finished the topic Fractions & Percentages. Depending upon which textbook a pupil was working from, then they might have been finding a fraction of an amount; simplifying fractions; changing percentages to a fraction or a decimal or vice versa;…