World Maths Day

The day had arrived……Wednesday 7^th March and the students were ready for an exciting day of maths J Each class had their own timetable which included the online World Challenge and more:

Year 7 enjoyed maths through drama after their trip.

Year 8 worked with Year 2 and 3 teaching them the names and properties of some shapes.  The Year 2 class enjoyed making shapes with their bodies on the playground and Year 3, guided by Year 8, tested their shape knowledge with an interactive quiz.

Year 9 worked with Year 6, Year 10 with Year 4, and Year 11 with Year 5 to complete; some mental maths challenges, interactive fractions quiz and problem solving on the graphical calculators involving laying tiles in bathrooms.

Year 10 also worked on a Geography with maths project develop understanding of grid references, bearings and map skills.  Music and maths was the Year 8 challenge and Year 9 looked at Maths in Art.  Year 11 considered whether the probability of scoring a hoop in basketball was connected with the angle the ball was thrown from.

Year 12 spent the morning working on a Physics with maths project and then developed graphical emotions on their GDCs.  They limited the domain of functions in order to achieve a variety of shapes and emotions.

In the afternoon Year 7-10 competed in a maths quiz and a tower challenge – which team could build the highest tower to support a tennis ball, using the fewest straws?

Well these are some of the highlights we will publish the highest scoring students from the online Maths Challenge very soon, until then enjoy looking at the pictures below of the joint projects.