Friday, 29 January 2016

Friday 29th January 2016 Topic Homework

Topic (to be done on the blog) : We will be finding out about the Mayans next week, starting with their interesting calendars. Can you find out why the Mayan calendar has only 260 days, while our calendar has 365?

Thursday, 28 January 2016

http://nrich.maths.org/53

Roll These Dice

Stage: 2

Two dice are RED and one is GREEN.

Roll the dice and add up the numbers on the two RED dice and then subtract the number on the GREEN.
So if one RED is

4 and the other RED is

5 and the GREEN is

3 we should add together

4 and

5 to make

9 and then subtract the

3 so that gives us a final answer of

6.
You'll need to roll these dice many times and see what numbers you make each time by doing the addition and subtraction.
In this game it would be good to find out:-

what are the final answers by doing the addition and subtraction each time?
what are all the different possible numbers?
is there a good way of making sure you find them all?
how will you record what you've found out?

Now have a go!

Look at your results and write down some questions that you could ask about them. For example, do any of them have the same answers? If so, why?

Then you could ask yourself, "I wonder what would happen if, instead, I ...?''
Printable NRICH Roadshow resource.

Friday, 22 January 2016

Poem Challenge

Can you make your own short poem using one of the following words for inspiration? Your poem has to be less that 100 words!

- forest

- fur

- bow and arrow

- fire

Friday 22nd January 2016

There is no Topic Homework on the blog this week, but we will have a Poem Challenge for you instead!

Friday, 15 January 2016

Topic Homework 15th January 2016

Next week we will be looking at the Iron Age and thinking about how their lives were different to life in 2016. What can you find out about Iron Age life? Write a comment on your class blog.

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