Maths – Page 3 – Queen's Hill Primary School

Y5 Fractions

19th May 20233rd May 2023

What better way is there when starting a new topic but with an investigation. Children were tasked to answer the following question:

“If the chocolate on the table I sit at is to be shared out equally when I sit down, which would be the best table to sit at?“

In the classroom there were three tables. One with 1 bar of chocolate on, another with 2 bars of chocolate and a third with 3 bars of chocolate. All children were sent out into the corridor and then asked to come in one by one and answer the above question by sitting at a table.

At the end of the task the children did get to eat the chocolate and fractions was launched successfully!

Year 3 Investigation

26th April 2023

Year 3 investigated equal parts today. We found out that equal parts do not need to look the same!

Year 3 Fractions

21st April 2023

Year 3 used multilink to help show parts and wholes in different contexts. They worked hard to write the fraction down too.

F1 Jaguar Club

31st March 2023

The three teams have been working each week after school preparing for the F1 Jaguar reginal finals. The children had to design, make, assemble, test and race their cars at the reginal heats. They also had to prepare a presentation about their work. In order to gain sponsorship the children wrote to local businesses and were then able to buy their own merchandise with their very own logo’s on.

All three teams did exceptionally well. Winning awards across all categories. Two of our teams were extremely successful and are heading to the National championships in Leeds!

Year 3 Maths

29th March 2023

Year 3 have explored equal and unequal parts as well as parts of a whole in maths this week as part of their Unit Fraction work.

Today, we explored ‘if X is a part, what could the whole be if the whole has X equal parts?’

We enjoyed investigating, have a look at some of our work!

Y6 Mathematics Challenge

24th February 2023

We sent four of our young mathematicians to represent Queen’s Hill at a county wide mathematics challenge, held at Norwich School.

They were given a set of letters and numbers and worked through the ‘equations’ allocating the letters values. They then attempted to make the total indicated using six values provided while only using the four operations. The final challenge was to solve questions to test their lateral thinking and problem solving.

All four of them worked extremely hard and represented Queen’s Hill with pride – we are so proud of them!

Y5 Mathematics Challenge

24th February 2023

We sent four of our young mathematicians to represent Queen’s Hill at a county wide mathematics challenge, held at Norwich School.

Working in pairs the mathematicians worked through five problems during an eight minute period at each station. The activities involved problems such as:

Pentominoes ~ Tangrams ~ Railway timetables ~ Ordering playing cards ~ Dice ~ Mystery numbers ~ Domino jigsaw ~ Shopping lists ~ Mazes ~ Code breaking ~ Sequences ~ Broken calculators ~ Make 24 ~ Logic puzzles ~ Cross numbers.

All four of them worked extremely hard and represented Queen’s Hill with pride. They competed with courage and placed Queen’s Hill in the top 20! Even commenting that they would come back next year and compete for Y6 – we are so proud of them!

Y5 Scaling

10th February 2023

This week in maths Y5 continue to build on their knowledge of ‘scaling’. At the end of the week children got to move around the classroom, visiting four different stations. At each station children had to demonstrate using scaling language comparing mass, time, volume and length.

They did amazingly well and they have now applied that knowledge to multiplying by fractions!

Y5 Maths

10th February 2023

We started the half term exploring how to work out area. Initially, we looked at the best way to measure surfaces using different shapes and made estimations using our finger tips. We moved onto counting squares and worked out the area of our names by drawing them on squared paper. Then we made a 1m x 1m stencil and went out onto the playground with chalk and created our own compound shapes – though the weather was not kind to us that day!

Once children were confident working out area counting squares we introduced the calculation length x width. Children were then able to work out the area of rectangles and compound shapes using this calculation. Finally, working in groups they used their knowledge of area to reason and problem solve.

Year 4 Times Table Breakfast Cafe

13th January 2023

We had a great turn out for our Year 4 Times Table Breakfast Cafe! Everyone enjoyed a range of times table quizzes, board games and activities to help them learn their times tables.

View copy of the presentation

Download parent information leaflet

Online times table games