I was chatting yesterday with Year 1 & 2 pupils about how we should all see ourselves as both teachers and learners. Often pupils are brilliant teachers – that is why listening to each other’s ideas is so important. Here is a good case in point – a Year 3/4 pupil explaining how he worked [...]
Today you are going to use your maths knowledge to ask questions and set challenges around Silverstone. We create our tour using a quikmap. Remember – we are all teachers and learners! Here’s a quick quikmap …
We explored perimeter and circumference after identifying some areas to measure on Google Earth. The path measurement feature of Google Earth proved an interesting way to check our findings.
The circumference of a circle is simple to find using pi as long as you know the diameter. However, when we measured outside the centre [...]
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3pm Update:
We had a brilliant and very wet time today. Exploring the tangent function to find the height of buildings around the track, we quickly got to grips with our clinometers to measure the necessary angle. We also made sure that we measured the adjacent distance from the structure to [...]
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