Monday's Maths14 January 2019 (by admin) |
This morning children's mental arithmetic was put to the test as both classes challenged adults in a warm-up game of countdown (we have to admit, the children won!)
Then, children played a 4 in a row game in pairs where they had to answer a range of taxing questions, developing strategies to calculate in their heads rather than on paper. Some strategies included rounding, partitioning and using times table facts.
It would be great if children could practise calculating in their heads at home - here are some examples of questions from our 'orange' challenge today: 539.4 divided by 100, 843-382, 28 x 4, 13.45 + 2.43. Or, you could play the numbers game from countdown together?