World Maths Day 2023 - Maths in the Working World
This year, the theme of our Maths Day has been “Maths in the Working World.” Children learned that there is a lot more to maths than addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. Whether people enjoy using maths or not, it is all around us. It is part of our everyday life and is used in a whole variety of jobs - hairdressing, business owner, footballer, musician, dancer, jewellery designers, game designers, weather presenters, bakers, pharmacists, chefs and so the list goes on!
Throughout the day, children took part in:
- Treasure Hunts - Shape Dinosaur Hunt (EYFS & KS1) & Famous Mathematicians Hunt (KS2);
- Estimating Time Challenge Competition;
- 2D and 3D model making;
- Shop and Money making;
- Magic Maths;
- Pattern Making;
- Dancing;
- Parent Demonstrations (Maths within their work roles); and
- so much more.
A huge thanks to all Volunteers within school during the day!
What did our children think to World Maths Day?
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| EYFS “I like maths because it makes me smart.” Ada “Maths is really fun.” Jason “I like maths because I can keep trying” Edward
YEAR 1 “I’ve worked with a partner to make a pizza shop and we put on prices like a REAL shop!” Heidi “We have learnt maths is in kinds of jobs.” Lenny |
| YEAR 2 “I liked it because we were dancing and doing maths.” Luka “It has been good because I like the bit where we built the towers using the stopwatch” Tigerlilly I liked it because we were dancing and doing maths.” Luka “I like World Maths Day because it is really fun.” Lola
“I liked Maths Day because we did lots of maths, it is my favourite subject.” Eryn |
| YEAR 3 “I liked sport on Maths Day, working with my friend and researching on the computers.” Freddie “Estimating time was exciting and breath taking (lots of exercise) Vinnie “It was awesome today and I don’t normally really like maths.” James “World Maths Day is so much fun. I enjoyed it so much. It was amazing. The treasure hunt was tricky though.” Florence |
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| YEAR 4 “I like it when we all work together to solve a maths mystery!” 4SB
In 4BM the girls favoured – taking part in the Treasure Hunt; the 1 minute challenge competition. The boys favoured – running; going on the field; Times Table Rockstars; the Treasure Hunt; 1 minute challenge activities; and EVERYTHING!
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| YEAR 5 “The Pancake quiz was fun. We learnt to adapt our problem solving skills!” Hallam
“It was chilled. I enjoyed estimating the time.” Hattie
“It was the best day ever! We had lots of giggles with the estimating time challenge.” 5HW
“I enjoyed cracking codes and learning about new people and new things.” SM – 5JS
“Today was amazing” TP – 5JS
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The Orchard
EYFS
Year 3 Shape work
Treasure Hunt
Year 3 Famous Mathematician Research
1 Minute Estimating Time Challenge
Year 3 and Year 4 Maths Certificates
Year 5 - Estimating Time Challenge
