Maths for this week - starting 17th May

Hello!

The focus for this week is angles and direction. We shall be looking at the vocabulary used for angles (rotatio, turn, acute, obtuse, reflex, right angle, vertex, arm, protractor) and direction (north, south, east, west, right, left, next to, besides). We shall also look at how fractions and angles are connected as well as how these relate to clocks and time. So many connections!

This week we will be using lots of our thinking skills as we shall be having a big focus on problem solving. We shall be looking at a variety of problems and the children will be expected to use their different strategies for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We are so impressed with the progress year 4 has made in multiplication and this activity will be great revision for everybody!

We shall also be looking at some investigations which will be great fun. We have one very special investigation about toffee in a tin and another using dice. We expect to hear lots of chatter about maths and look forward to seeing who can work together effectively in their groups - yet another opportunity to improve their group work skills!

Maths Homework - due Friday 21st May
Activity
p. 71 and 145 of the textbook - let's see who can follow directions and use a compass!

Practice
Please record in maths homework book- if you do not have this (4LB will not) then please record on a piece of paper.
Monday - Practise multiplying different numbers by ten.
Tuesday - Divide numbers by 10
Wednesday- Multiply numbers by 100
Thursday - Divide numbers by 100.
By the end of this week you will all be super duper at multiplying and dividing by 10/100!