Maths at Home

September - Tremendous Tessellations

This months activity is to create a repeated pattern that uses tessellating shapes.  Start by choosing a 2D shape that can be fitted together in a pattern with no gaps or overlaps.

Please send photos of your patterns to

ebishop@dinglewell-inf.gloucs.sch.uk

and these will be added to the school website to celebrate maths at home. 

Examples:

July - Pattern Professors

This months activity is to create a repeated pattern.  Be as creative as you like.

Please send photos of your patterns to ebishop@dinglewell-inf.gloucs.sch.uk

and these will be added to the school website to celebrate maths at home. 

June - Stick Bugs with Symmetry

This months activity is to go outside and collect some sticks.  Use the sticks to create a stick bug with one or more lines of symmetry. 

If you can’t collect any sticks you could always draw or paint your symmetrical bug.

Please send photos of your stick bugs to

ebishop@dinglewell-inf.gloucs.sch.uk

and these will be added to the school website to celebrate maths at home. 

May 2023 - Coronation Gems

To celebrate the coronation of King Charles III on 6^th May this month’s challenge will be to design a crown for the King.  The crown will need to be decorated with gems. Gems come in all shapes and sizes.  What will you use?

Please make a list of the shapes that you have used.

Please send photos of your coronation gems to ebishop@dinglewell-inf.gloucs.sch.uk and these will be added to the school website to celebrate maths at home. 

April 2023 - Maths Games

Following the successful board games session to celebrate World Maths Day on 23rd March, the activity suggestion for April is to play maths games at home.  Below are the rules of the games we played at school.  I've also included PDF copies of the base boards we used should you want to print out a copy to use at home. 

I would also love to hear about any other games that have a mathematical element to them or even a slight change to the rules to make it even more mathematical.  Please send photos to include on the website.  Your ideas may even be used at next year's World Maths Day event.

Reception children played snakes and ladders moving carefully across the board, looking at which way their pawn needed to move (especially when they got to climb a ladder or slide down a snake).

Year 1 children played Ludo using two dice.  They needed to roll a six to get a pawn out and into play.  The six could be on either dice or the total of both dice.  Of course, any six rolled resulted in an extra go.  They continued rolling both dice and moving the total number of spaces.

Year 2 children also played Ludo with two dice.  They needed a six to move a pawn into play.  However, as play progressed, they had the choice of adding their two number or taking the smaller number away from the larger number.  This added an element of tactical play as they tried to send their friends pawns back to start again!

March 2023 - Book Worms

Can you find maths in a book?  To link with World Book Day, I have chosen a book-based activity this month.  While you’re reading look out for any maths links?  There may be maths in an old favourite story, a school reading book, a non-fiction book or even in poem.   

Please email your book worm photos and quotes to Mrs Bishop  

ebishop@dinglewell-inf.gloucs.sch.uk

and I will share them on the school website. 

February 2023 - Foodie Maths

Can you find maths disguised as food?

Please take a photo, write down or draw what you have spotted.  Here is a simple idea to get you started.

Please email your foodie maths pictures to Mrs Bishop  

ebishop@dinglewell-inf.gloucs.sch.uk

and I will share them on the school website.  Please visit the website to see the wonderful mathematical pictures that were sent to me for the month of January. 

January 2023 - Mathematical Pictures

Reception – Can you create an image that is outlined using only numbers?  Surround your image with a string of numbers.

Year 1 - Can you create an image that is outlined using number sentences?  These could be addition facts or subtraction facts that you know.

Year 2 – Can you create an image that is outlined using number sentences?  These could be addition, subtraction or multiplication facts.

 Here is a simple idea to get you started.

Please email your amazing mathematical pictures to Mrs Bishop

ebishop@dinglewell-inf.gloucs.sch.uk

and I will share them on the school website.

January 2023 - Snowflakes

Did you know that it’s possible to “let it snow” by cutting a folded piece of paper?
Prepare your imaginations, paper sheets, scissors…and a bit of geometry too – to see the magic happen.

Draw and cut a simple shape on paper like a circle, a square or a rhombus.

Fold your paper in half and half and half again.
Then draw your snowflake “details” and cut them (pay attention, folded paper can be a bit hard to cut).

Unfold to show your creation!

Have fun experimenting your own shapes and cuts and… let it snow!

Or you could use lolly sticks to create a snowflake

Or use this link to find out how to make a giant 3D snowflake

Giant Snowflake Activity - Maths on Toast

Here's a few ideas to get you started.

Remember to send a photo of your amazing snowflakes to ebishop@dinglewell-inf.gloucs.sch.uk

December 2022 - Rudolph Maths

Create an image of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer using 2D shapes.  Please remember to label the shapes that you have used.  Here are a couple of ideas to get you started.  Please email a photo of your 2D shape Rudolph to ebishop@dinglewell-inf.gloucs.sch.uk.

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