Middle School Had a Wonderful Maths Morning

On Monday morning Year 5 and 6 spent the whole morning competing in the Middle School Maths Morning.

The children were divided into 10 mixed-ability groups and were tasked with working through five very different maths activities, scattered around the school. At each station, the tasks were designed to take the core maths topics they have been covering in class but presented in a challenging, practical and real-world format. The ten teams battled through some tricky volume and capacity questions in “Wacky Waters”, then on to “Make that Number” which was run on the same lines as the popular TV series Countdown.  Next, they were given a compass and click-wheel and they had to follow a series of coded directions until they managed to find where the bag of stolen diamonds was buried in the “Orienteering Ordeal”. Then it was on to “Estimation Agony” where their ability to guess and approximate were really put to the test and finally, they pitted their wits against the “Shape Chase”; which tested them on the properties of shapes.

All-in-all a packed programme of fun maths that really tested them on the core skills but also on their ability to work as a team, support and encourage each other.

In the end it was a very close competition but team Dorothy triumphed (named after the mathematician Dorothy Vaughan), scoring an impressive 42.2 out of 50.

Congratulations to all the teams for taking this morning of maths very seriously and for working so hard.

A super morning all round.

Mr Shaw

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