There was a hive of activity in primary 5 just before Christmas as all pupils were involved in a carousel doing three maths activities. There was present wrapping in order to help Santa and working out the weights and costs of parcels which needed to be sent by post. There was also a cocktail party with nibbles where you had to mix the cockail of your choice.

This was the end of a lot of hard work this term on measuring volume, weight and length. Well Done everyone!

Mrs Stark’s maths group put their co-rdinates and grid skills to good use when they took part in a Battleships tournament. Having put their skills into practice with a homework task first, it was time for the real thing! There were lots of sunken aircraft carriers and tug boats – and a lot of strategic co-ordinate planning. Some people from the group took their skills to the P2/3 Playground and used the grid painted on the ground to place each other at specific points.

Today (Thursday) Mrs Macniven`s maths set went outside to do a Symmetry Saunter all around the school to see how many things they could find that were symmetrical.

They tried to challenge themselves so they were not just looking for things with only ONE line of symmetry. Here are some of the things they found.

Miss Boyd’s P5 maths set have been going shape crazy over the last few days. They have been learning all about 3D shapes. They now know how many faces and edges they’ve got AND how many corners too (we call them vertices though!). They then made some 3D shapes out of construct-o-straws. Look at the fabulous shapes they managed to make! Can you spot the CUBE? CUBOID? TRIANGULAR PYRAMID (that’s our newest one)? TRIANGULAR PRISM? Some of them even made OCTAGONAL PRISMS without even realising what they were called!!

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