One of our main focuses in Class 5 at the moment is on improving our maths work. It’s really important that we work hard on all of our mathematical skills to improve our maths levels. There is many different ways to work on our maths skills and we are currently doing lots of different work from practical investigations:
(making nets of 3d shapes)
and lots more besides.
What could you do today to improve your Maths levels?
Have a look at the Mathletics website as there many useful activities on this site which will help your learning http://www.mathletics.co.uk/.
Still want more? Well try these websites that will also aid your maths work:
http://www.maths-games.org/ Some games on this website are more challenging than others – choose a game that will extend your thinking to make the most progress with your maths work.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/ An old favourite, this website presents mathematical concepts in fun and practical contexts.
How are you going to improve your maths levels?
Share your experiences of how you’ve improved yourself in maths by writing a comment below.
I once taught a pupil who told me that they recited the times tables every night as they were trying to get to sleep. They told me that it helped them improve their maths levels whilst making them go to sleep faster! Anyway, they ended up getting a Level 5 in their SATs test so it must have worked!
I have improved my work this week by making sure that my work is at the highest standard, by trusting in myself to produce the best work possible, and by making sure I have used all facts from past lessons, to help me understand a question if I have no idea of the answer, to help a friend with work, or any other parts of maths that I do not understand.
Have you used any websites or other online resources to help you improve your maths work Mimi?
i thought it was very good because it helped me with my science and i learnt about sockets and friction
Can you make a comment about what work you’ve completed to improve your Maths levels Teddy?
How I learnt from the Mummy game:
I got the answers right because I looked at the instructions and I looked at the examples and I thought about the answer and that is how I got the answer right.
Are there any other games that you’d recommend to other children that would help them improve their maths work?
MATHS!!!
Maths is cool and really fun,
We do it when the day has just begun.
We add tricky numbers and decimals too,
I can do maths, me and you!
That is a maths poem I made up!
Lovely creativity Faber. Are there any maths websites that you’ve used that you’d recommend to other children?
I try to all ways look at my targets whilst I’m doing the work and see if the work relates to my targets and if I can meet any of them.
That’s a really good idea Lola. Are there any online resources that you’ve used that you’d recommend to other children to use that would help them with their maths work?
Thanks for the websites I’ve already had lots of educational fun on two of the websites so far the maths games and the test papers
I achieve my targets by looking at my targets and mostly focusing and the target I trying to achieve.I like maths because I always learn my times tables and I am great and at addition subtraction and multipulcation and some of division.I also use the websites underneath to make amy work a level 5 high standard work!=)
One of my favourite math lessons that we’ve had is making the three dimensional shapes.
I achieve my targets my targets by looking at them and mostly focusing on the one I am working on and trying to achieve.I like maths because I am good at my times tables and subtraction also my addition but not really division.I use the websites underneath to make my maths work a level 5 work and a high standard work.=)How do you achieve your maths work?=)
I am writing this comment again because the first I wrote made no sense.=)
I think that maths helps you with so many things in life. Here are some examples:
Jobs- Designer’s need to measure cloths and add them up, Scientist’s need to measure things and see if there’s to much or to less, and there are many more.
College/Uni- Grades, jobs…
I have been using what I have learnt in the past lessons.
Maths is a way to make successful in life. It is something that is important when learning. Every resources leads up to maths maybe in Literacy you need a certain amount of lines so you “count” them. In science you might be focusing on temperate you might “estimate” so maths can develop our learning in different ways.
Maths helps you to do many things in life. One of the most important things are jobs. if you couldn’t do maths then you couldn’t work in a shop, do science, be a nurse/doctor, be an architect, be an engineer or be a teacher.
These websites are really good if you want to get to a good secondary school because there a mixture of easy and hard questions! 😛 🙂
I have really enjoyed the maths in all of our lessons and one of my favourite was when we were making 3d shapes.
Maths is really good if you want to be a scientist or philosipher so it was really good to go on tese websites
I think i have improved my work because i am writing my words the same size i am getting better at column method adding, taking-away, times tables and division and sequences are getting easier and easier i think i have to stop doing them!!!!!!!:):o I LOVE MATHS!!!! (LITERALLY I COULD JUST HUG IT!!!!!!!!)
Maths is really good if you want to be a scientist or philosipher so it was really good to go on tese websites and mathletics is better
By the way i think Nicole, Tianna, Renne, Leon, Kiran, Tullia, Vannessa and Lola have done really welll on there maths and have tried there best to get to level 5 and do there best on, times tables, numbr sequences, adding, minus, number lines and doing mental maths by working it out in there head like `SNAP`!!!!! TA DA DOO DAA!!!!!!!!
I worked it out on paper first. so that i could see where the decimal point was.
I improved my maths by looking at sats sheets and working on mathletics because I thought that it would be the most helpful and I also would recommend mathletics because it has lots of challenging questions that would help you understand maths a bit more.
Thank You Mr Antcliffe for all those handy websites.I have used Mathletics and some of the other ones.They have really helped in my learning.Thank You Mr Antcliffe.
I like that.
I went on mathletics it was great I went on live mathletics. I find that mathletics helps me and improves my levels
Thanks Mr Antcliffe. I’d recommend mathletics!
I agree, Faber, however, it is also useful to recite your times tables, or addition and subtraction mentally, and you will then be able to get a level 5 in maths!
Thank You Araya.I think you have tried your best to just like everyone else.Well Done Class 5.
I try to all ways look at my targets whilst I’m doing the work and see if the work relates to my targets and if I can meet any of them. I also look at my comments that Mr Antcliffe has left me and then i can see if i can complet them.
I find the websites help you aswell mathletics is a good website to go on.
I think that mathletics really helps us learn a lot in maths
I think that bbc bite size, mathletics and maths games are all really fun, and help you learn in a fun way. I would recomend these websites to you for that very reason. The y also help you (sometimes) to get higher grades in maths, and it’s not that hard.
This really helped me being able to partition numbers
This really helped me being able to partition numbers which will help me to add and minus
Mathletics really helps me achieve my targets because the activities are really hard and they basically teach us how to understand different maths questions.
I have learnt a lot in the websites, it helped me to understand to use the perimeter.
The webesite rally helped me
I do my time table on the grid. Mostly when I am on the bus to school.This had help me a lot. I also do addition every day. Now it is easy to do.
All these websites are really good. Thank You Mr Antcliffe for making us wiser and smarter. Those websites are a great help.
I have learnt alot with my Homework.
That looks super fun!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have improved my maths, I can’t wait to do Marvelous Maths.