Mental Maths Games Evening
The School recently held it’s first Mental Maths Games Evening.
The evening was designed to allow parents and pupils to take part in a number of Mental Maths Games together. It gave parents the opportunity to experience some of the maths topics and fun maths learning strategies that the children use in class and to ask questions.
The event was VERY well supported with approximately 50 parents and their children attending.
The evening started with the pupils from each class demonstrating some of their maths learning strategies.
P1/2 showed us “tap, clap, click, click” whereby the children did this to their times tables; “bunny ears”, where they used fingers from each hand to add up to a number and we then saw them adding and subtracting using the counting stick.
P3/4 also used “tap, clap, click, click” and they also then chose a number and wrote it on the board and had to find as many subtraction, addition, multiplication and division options to get to that answer.
P4/5 also showed their parents ”tap, clap, click, click” on a more advanced level with higher numbers of multiplication.
P6/7 then demonstrated their multiplication skills. They played a game whereby someone shouted out a multiplication question, the person with the answer on their card shouted out the answer and then asked the group for the answer to the sum on their card. The game continued until all of the cards had been turned over.
After these demonstrations, parents in all the classes enthusiastically participated in some of these strategies.
Everybody then took a break for refreshments and after that went into the hall for a talk and presentation, given by Norma MacPherson, East Lothian Council Maths Advisory Teacher.
Thank you to all parents, carers, brothers, sisters, grannies, grandads and friends who supported this event and made it such a HUGE success .
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