Investigations!

There is a long history of investigation in mathematics with evidence that the Ancient Egyptians explored numbers and found patterns and connections in their work. From the time of ancient civilizations mathematics has been used to make sense of the world and the universe in which we live.

Throughout the year we will be working through different investigations using and applying our maths skills and knowledge. Investigations require us to work systematically, think logically and to search for patterns as well as making conjectures, testing these and trying to make generalizations.

See our investigations develop through the year - you can also try them at home!


Investigation 1: Three in a Bag.


This investigation explores totals and complements to 30 with plenty of mental arithmetic. It's an opportunity to develop patterns and work in a methodical, structured way. Here are our questions:

1. Can all totals between 3 and 30 be made with only threee numbers between 1 and 10?

2. Using only 3 numbers between 1 and 10, how many ways can any number between 3 and 30 be made?

3. Can you find all the totals that can be made with consecutive numbers (e.g. 3 + 4 + 5  = 12) ?

4. Can you find totals that can be made using three numbers that are the same - is there a pattern in these totals?

In school we'll use the numicon shapes to help us as they are multi sensory and help us to see the organized system in numbers. Here's what they look like:

Of course you could try this at home without the shapes.

Home Learning

Here are your home learning questions for this week. We have been learning to add and subtract decimals and these questions will help you consolidate these key life skills :-)

1. 53.47 + 78.32

2. 726.3 + 93.56

3. 7.93 + 49. 03

4. 85.62 + 529.3 + 103.07

5. 86 + 18.06 + 65.32 + 100.2

6. 85.51 - 46.46

7. 582.7 - 94.45

8. 632.9 - 8.99

9. List 5 ways in which being able to add and subtract decimals will be useful for you in the future.

Remember, if you need some coaching you can always post a comment and I'm sure someone will help you by 'teaching not telling!' as we do during Rally Coach. Your learning is due in on Tuesday 27th September.

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I  got to level 30 which is the highest on the game look here http://www.arcadeprehacks.com/play/10686.html

Solve simple problems involving ratio and proportion

http://uk.ixl.com/math/year-6/ratios-word-problems

If you need help figuring out how to solve ratio word problems click on this website.

Use a fraction as an operator to find fractions of numbers and Quantities

This wide selection of Fraction games will help you practice your fraction memory

This Link is amazing and we hope you and your mates will enjoy this game!!!!!!

http://www.uen.org/3-6interactives/math.shtml

Have fun:)

By Nadiyah and Aoife :-D

Carry out column addition and subtraction of numbers involving decimals

http://www.math.com/school/subject1/lessons/S1U1L4GL.html

This is a good demonstration on how to do column addition and subtraction using decimals.

it breaks it down in simple steps so its understandable. This will help you learn.

We found this website called welcome to maths playground and its wicked! There are some links in the links page.

solve simple problems involving ratio and proportion

http://uk.ixl.com/math/year-6/ratios-word-problems

If you need help solving ratio problems this is the best site to go to!!!

Read and plot co-ordinates in all four quadrants.

A fun classical maths game to help you with your co-ordinates.If your struggling on your co-ordinates this game is the game for you also there is a time limit.Try and see how many aliens you can find!!!

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/BillyBug2/bug2.html

By Kurun and Ikash

Multiply and divide decimals by 10 or 100 and integers by 1000,and explain the effect

Math basketball is a fun and hard decimal division game and you can play on your own,with your friend or in a team. You have to answer the questions by clicking on the right one.You can shoot in the hoop but if you get it wrong you don't get to shoot in the hoop the computer does it for you http://www.math-play.com/

Carry out short multiplication and division of numbers involving Decimals

This amazing maths game will draw you in to learning your multiplication and division involving DECIMALS and other maths games for you to discover!!!

This Link is awesome because it has a variety of different maths games

Follow this Link:

http://www.math-play.com/decimal-math-games.html

Choose your year group and select a game!!!

Have fun :)!!!

By Nadiyah and Aoife :-D

Reduce a fraction to its simplest form by cancelling common factors

http://uk.ixl.com/math/year-6/reduce-fractions-to-simplest-form

You should go to this website because it has more maths objectives to learn for YEARS 1-10

Its really COOL because there is EVERYTHING for maths and these games matches the objective you're looking for!

Aarid and Tyler

understand percentage as the number of parts in every hundred,and find simple percentages of small whole -number quantities

Ella And Ciara Found this really good game called percent shopping game , you choose five items and add them all up for e.g: a football for £2.00 and a chess board costing £6.00 a robot toy for sale for £16.00 and a music player for £11.00 a train costing £23.00 Then Add it all up and the answer is £58.00 - but a sale is on so you have to take away the sale number from your total price ours is £29.00 - From £58.00 = £29.00 Then You Get a random percentage and you have to work that out . Me(Ella) And Ciara would persuade other people to use it ! Why Don't you have a go yourself .

This Is The Site : http://www.mathplayground.com/percent_shopping.html

Use a protractor to measure acute and obtuse angles to the nearest degree.

This website we found is all about finding out how to measure angles and guessing how to shoot the spaceship by using degrees.We hope you will find it good and that you will learn things from it. Here is the link:

http://www.innovationslearning.co.uk/subjects/maths/activities/year6/angles/games.asp

Ellie and Harina

Order a mixed set of numbers with up to three decimal places

This game is all to do with maths and decimals up to 3 places.

This website is great for boys and girls to enjoy maths while learning without them knowing it!

18 games on the website for all the family to enjoy.

Click on the link below to go on the maths game.

http://www.free-training-tutorial.com/decimal-games.html#mania

derive quikly division facts corresponding to multiplication tables up to 10x10.

This web site is good because you can do your times table and .It also great for learning.first you have to create a account to play against around the world

by Deepak and betina

Glogs!

Heard about Glogs? We've been using this great new tool that is sweeping the internet to create our very own Maths Belief! glogs. By reflecting on all the maths we've learned so far we know we can learn any maths we need to in the future. Click on the links below to see our glogs!

Kurun: http://howesy615.edu.glogster.com/maths-belief/

Aarid: http://howesy607.edu.glogster.com/glog-109-6600/

Ella: http://howesy616.edu.glogster.com/glog-3527-4693/


Aoife: http://howesy608.edu.glogster.com/aoife-math-glog/

Sam:  http://howesy606.edu.glogstar.com/sams-maths-belive/

Harina: http://howesy618.edu.glogster.com/harinas-math-glog/

Karam : http://howesy601.edu.glogster.com/karams-maths-glog/

Deepak: http://howesy620.edu.glogster.com/deepaks-maths/

Nadiyah : http://howes614.edu.glogster.com/nadiyah-glog-/

Ellie: http:howes611.edu.glogster.com/math-ellie/

Adele: http://howesy617.edu.glogster.com/math/

Ikash: http://howesy603.edu.glogster.com/

Danni: http://howesy619.edu.glogster.com/glog-3836-9940


Ollie: http//howes604.edu.glogster.com/maths-belief/

The story of maths

Today we have been stretching our Finding Out muscles using the media to help us. Oxford Maths professor Marcus du Sautoy recently presented an excellent series on the history of maths for the BBC, The Story of Maths. Here are some of our findings from the first programme...

• Children studied maths thousands of years ago (Mollie)
• Egyptians used their bodies to measure (Aoife)
• Children worked on clay in mathematics(Adele)
• Egyptians used decimal numbers to record numbers (Danni)
• They used fractions to understand how to share out food fairly (Ella)
• Maths started from patterns! (Karam)
• The Egyptians were the first to recognise the seasons! (Kurun)
• The Egyptians were one of the first to use maths.(Harina)
• The River Nile was one of the birthplaces of maths!(Nadiyah)
• Pythagorus was a very famous mathematician! (Aarid)
• The Babalonions also enjoyed maths (Garry)
• They have there own ways working out hard maths sums. (Shyan)
• They used sheets of woven reeds to record maths.(Phoebe)
• They used maths to water there farms. (Sam)
• The Egyptians did maths 4000 years ago. (Ollie)
• They used reeds to make paper.(Tyler) 

We Are All Mathematicians!

Throughout history human beings have struggled to understand the workings of the world around them. We have endeavoured to discover the rules and patterns that determine the qualities of the objects that surround us and their complex relationships to us and each other. Over thousands of years societies all over the world have found that one discipline above all others yields certain knowledge about the reality around us: that is Mathematics! At Howes we are all Mathematicians; pattern seekers hunting down the hidden structures of the world around us. Join us in our journey into pattern and order - our journey into Maths!