Super stretchy maths today!

Today in maths some of us learnt how to divide a decimal by a decimal.  For example, do you know how to work out 3.2 divided by 2.9?  Or our 'super stretch' question of 2671.23 divided by 2.1?  Do you know how to solve questions like this?  We learnt a strategy to help us solve questions like this.  The strategy was really helpful and was quite easy to learn.  We all achieved this and feel great!

Some of our other maths learners are revising what we have learnt by planning a workshop for other students.  We're excited to share this learning with you all! 

Zohaa, Ryana and Aisyah also set a super, super stretch challenge which is stretching our brains to solve.  Even Mrs Hodson had to get her thinking cap on to find the answer!  Can you solve it?

47 + (9 x 2) - 76 x 4 / 3 + 74 x 3 + 9^4 - 6 + 7^3 - (7 + 2) = ??

PS: 7^3  means 7 x 7 x 7 or 7 cubed or 7 to the power of 3.

By Vinuth and Saim

 

Peer Teaching in Maths

In maths today, some of our learners became teachers!  They've been working hard to revise and prepare for their own workshops and today some of these students taught others in the class.

The workshops offered included short division/bus stop revision, long division and an introduction to dividing fractions.  All of our student teachers did a fantastic job of gaining an understanding of their students' starting point and were able to adapt their teaching based on the feedback and insight they gained from their students.

It was a pleasure seeing them take such responsibility and leadership for their learning.  Congratulations to Zayaan, Farah, Hassan, Matthew, Vinuth and Omar.

"Today I learnt how to do bus stop division into the trillions.  Matthew was a really good teacher; he helped me which I got stuck and didn't act like a 'big head'.  He was really helpful and I enjoyed the student teacher workshop.  I'd like for it to happen every single week - it was good!" - Leo

"I really enjoyed doing the session today because I think it was really helpful.  The students were really good because they gave us hard stretch questions.  I think we should do these student workshops more often because I made good progress" - Aisyah

"Today at the beginning of the workshop, I'd forgotten how to use long division, so Vinuth told me all these tricks and I learnt that it's basically short division just writing all of your calcualtions down.  I made really good progress today!" - Rayan.

"Teaching was a pleasure today.  I taught Ryan and Charlie and it gave me practise with long division.  I gave them super, super stretch questions and challenged them.  They made great progress and will practise some more to get even better" - Vinuth