This week, Kestrels have been learning about square numbers and cube numbers. They made good use of the multilink cubes to discover how a number can be cubed. It really helped with their understanding and the lesson was a real success!
This week, Kestrels have been learning about square numbers and cube numbers. They made good use of the multilink cubes to discover how a number can be cubed. It really helped with their understanding and the lesson was a real success!
What a wonderful start to the week Kestrels had!
Year 5 absolutely powered through there fractions work, they made light work of multiplying fractions. Last week they looked at unit fractions (fractions that have 1 as the numerator) and this week they looked at non-unit fractions.
The whole class could see clearly that a simplified way of completing these multiplication questions was to multiply the numerator with the number stated:
For example, 1/4 x 3 is also the same us 3 lots of 1/4, which you can do as 3×1. So, the answer is 3/4. Last week they had also seen that it can also be done as a repeated addition of 1/4 + 1/4 + 1/4, which again is 3/4. This is a good way to check answers.
Well done Kestrels.
Amaya and Lexi have learnt a song that teaches them the numbers of Pi.
No spelling mistake….I did mean Pi and not Pie…Hee hee.
But what is Pi?
Succinctly, pi — which is written as the Greek letter for p, or π—is the ratio of the circumference of any circle to the diameter of that circle.
It is a very long number indeed as you can see. Not a big number, but a very long number as it is a decimal number.
And what is the point of pi?
So there you have it. Pi.
Have a look at Amaya and Lexi singing Pi.
Amazing girls, well done!
Today Year 5 investigated square numbers. They arranged arrays to see what shapes they made. When they tried 3 x 3 it made a square shape.
We could see that because all the sides were the same.
The children then made more square numbers and saw that each side needed to be the same: a number multiplied by itself is a square number.
Have a look at what they did.
Year 5 looked at multiples this week. They have done extremely well thinking of all the numbers that will be in the times table. They are even going on to look at lowest common multiples.
Today they looked at FACTORS and factor pairs.
Factors are the numbers that are multiplied together to make a multiple.
If we look at the multiple of 36-
the factor pairs are:
1 and 36 (because 1×36=36)
2 and 18 (because 2×18=36)
3 and 12
4 and 9
and 6 (because 6×6=36)
So they factors are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18 and 36.
It can be confusing to learn factors after multiples, but the class were great and can distinguish between the two.
Keep up the good work Year 5!