Maths in ‘real life’.

We have been thinking about why we learn maths. Is it just to ‘get better’ or are we practicing skills that we will really need to use? When we thought about it we realized that maths is all around us! Here are some of our ideas. . .

We are thinkers.

We have been using our thinking skills to help our learning. Problem solving at maths time: What information do we already know? What do we want to find out? Will we use; ‘guess and check’, ‘act it out’ with equipment, or ‘draw it’ with a picture or diagram to look...

Hanging out in Grade 1.

We had another amazing adventure at Wadi Hilti. We caught frogs, froglets, tadpoles and a fish or  two . . .  We returned to school with our collected creatures to release them into a new home.  We know we cannot interrupt the life...