Magical Maths
Date: 27th Apr 2017 @ 8:22am
Stately Holmes was here this week, a great detective and mathematical mystery solver. Here's what the children learned...
Stately Holmes is a distant relative of the great Sherlock, and has a reputation that's really building(!!) He's worked for some of the biggest crime solving organisations in the world; including the CIA and the FBI, but this week Stately was with us to teach the supercool youngsters a few of his crime solving skills.
Detective Training Booklet
Learning objectives: The dominoes trick involves practicing multiplication, addition, doubling and subtraction. The recurring number trick involves practicing long multiplication.
Key Stage twos did the detective training booklet with Stately. The first trick that Stately went through with the children was the 'Dominoes Trick'. The trick allows you to work out the two numbers on a domino that your friend has picked and you haven’t seen!
Also in the booklet were Stately's Recurring Number Trick, which is equally cool. You can try these out with your children at home. Let us know how you find them!
All students were given a booklet to take home.
The Magical Calculator - Helps you to read minds!
The second activity our detective brought with him was 'the Magical Calculator'. This is genuinely really amazing!
It's a sheet of numbers that's helps you calculate what another person is thinking. The Children were shown how to use it, and tried it on each other.
If your child didn’t bring a copy of the calculator home, please let us know if you'd like us to email you a copy to use. It's well worth it!
Hot Seat
Learning objectives:
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By the end of: |
Year 3 |
Year 4 |
Year 5 |
Year 6 |
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Recognise the Place Value in: |
A 3-digit number (100s, 10s, 1s). |
A 4-digit number (1,000s, 100s, 10s and 1s). |
At least 1,000,000. |
At least 10,000,000. |
Our final activity this week was Hot Seat! A great team game that gets the children to practice place value. Every child in the teams are given a number, and the aim of the game is to make a bigger number than the other team.
Well, what a great week it was! We really enjoyed it, and I know our world class detective was amazed by the younger detectives (I reckon they might even take Stately's job if they carry on at this rate!!).
See you next week for more Magical Maths, we can't wait!
Brian Banks
Head of convincing the FBI to lend us their best detectives.
01744776110
P.S. Next week is a PARTICULARLY magical week...we've got a visit from our very own Mathemagician.