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KS1
Year 1
Year 1 had a fantastic time listening to Dr Poppleton and learning all about how her role as a doctor uses maths.
This is what we learnt:
I learnt what calculation is - Myles
She has to count the heartbeats! - Aliy
Dr Poppleton has to count breaths. We counted breaths for 30 seconds. Then we times it by two - Alice
We had to double it! - Aliy
She has to measure the medicine very carefully! - Brian
Year 1 have been learning about Katherine Johnson and her work calculating the flight path of rockets. We learnt new vocabulary such as ‘trajectory’ and enjoyed learning facts about Katherine’s life.
Year 2
We kicked started National Numeracy Day by watching a special live lesson focusing on how maths is used in space.
We joined in to a dance routine with Numberblock 1 and had a lot of fun.
As part of the live lesson, we learnt about hoe they use maths in science.
- ‘They use maths to calculate the distance between the stars and the planets.’ - Ali
- ‘They use maths to set the rocket into space.’ - Joel
- ‘Different types of maths is used to launch rockets and they have to do a lot of calculations.’ - Jaxon
We also witnessed Numberblock 10 launch off into space.
Part of National Numeracy Day we played Times Table Bingo.
Year 2 were visited by a Pharmacist, who explained to us how she used maths in her job.
‘A pharmacist uses maths to measure the weight of the medicines.’
‘They have to count how much the medication cost.’
‘They need to use calculations when order more medicine.’
KS2
Year 3
We have been looking at different garments, where they are made and how much they cost to buy.
A school jumper made in Bangladesh cost £3
A school jumper from Pakistan cost £2 and had better quality.
”If we owned a clothes shop, we would need to buy our clothes for as little as possible so that we could make money on them when we sell them.”
”If clothes have patterns and prints on then they will be more expensive so the profit will be less.”
”It costs less to buy from China than England because the factories are bigger and make more clothes so they can sell them cheeper. The factory in China can make 25,000 garments per week and the factory in England can only make 5000 garments per week.”
We have researched information about Florence Nightingale and how she used maths in her job.
We have researched information about Florence Nightingale and how she used maths in her job.
Year 4
The visitor we had in year 4 to talk about their job relating to maths was Poppy’s grandad Tim. He had worked with maths and numbers all his working life and he loved maths and told us that maths (in particular our times tables) are really important in day to day life.
He said, “Numbers are magic, maths is the language of the universe and to love numbers you have to find the patterns in the numbers.”
His first job was working as the manager in a big shoe shop when there was no computers. He would have to use pen and paper to add up the sales of the day, make sure the total of sales adds up to the total of money made that day and also counting to do a stock take which including counting up all the shoes and all their prices.
His second job was working in financial services. At this job, he helped people buy houses, he helped people to save money for the future and for retirement. He worked a lot during the week and worked long hours which led him to create his own business.
This is now Tim’s third and current job. He decided to work for himself and make his own business to help people with their own work life balance. He created a pattern so that he could work out how to work to get enough money but not work as many hours. This was so he could see his family more.
Year 5
In year 5 we read about Rène Decartes. We wrote some facts about why he was influential in mathematics and then played a game of battleships to practise our knowledge of coordinates.
We had a parent visitor to class to talk about their occupation in lecturing and constructional engineering.
Mr Oladapo spoke about how his job and how he uses Mathematics within his employment teaching structural engineering at University and how Mathematics is used in different ways within everyday life. From gaming consoles to airplanes and how calculations are used to create strong buildings.
Mr Oladapo went on to talk about the importance of Mathematics in his life and he enjoyed it so much he would read these books for pleasure which gave him a great understanding for the subject. He told the children his career opportunities were endless due to his knowledge of Mathematics.
Examples of questions asked by the children were
"Do you use pi?"
Mr Oladapo explained he uses pi as 22/7 when needing to build circular rooms and calculating the correct sizes.
"Do you need Mathematics if you want to be a builder?"
Mr Oladapo told the children yes due to the mixing of products like concrete. Requiring the correct amount of water to mix and creating a strong foundation so the building doesn't collapse.
We played an escape room to test our knowledge on different maths areas such as Roman Numerals, area, fractions, line graphs and negative numbers.