And here's some of the work we produced once we got back into the warmth of the classroom!
Thursday 29 November 2012
Outdoor maths investigation!
Yesterday we took our maths lesson outside and investigated the height and circumference of the trees on our school field - it was pretty cold and rather muddy but we managed to measure some massive trees! Watch out for a video guide coming soon which will explain exactly how we did it!
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It was really fun measuring the trees.The way we measured them with a ruler was very cool that is what you call fun maths!
ReplyDeleteAmazing work guys! They might give me some ideas for when I do my one later.Sam and Pav please can you teach me how to draw then trees some time.
ReplyDeleteYes I can.
DeleteWow these are some amazing presentations.Maybe you can test if you described how to measure trees correctly.This a way how to test it: get someone (mum or dad mainly) and use exactly what you said on the presentation.Then you can check it yourself and see if you explained well enough.
ReplyDeleteFrom Lillie :c)
Well done your work is very good and some good art work in there.
ReplyDeleteWow! This maths investigation on trees is outstanding we all did a really good job of the posters and I think everybody's poster is amazing. from Gaby in ash class.
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree with Gaby we all did really well.
DeleteThey all look really good I love the tree that goes all around the page showing you all the good bits! I also like the ivy all over the trees. I'm guessing if it was a christmas themed event everyone would have been doing Holly leaves on Holly trees with snow and leaves all falling on the floor!
ReplyDeleteWell done your work is very good and some good art work in there.
ReplyDeleteI had lots of fun on Monday some cool art work to I'd love to draw like Sam B and I also like Becky and Hannah what a cool day
ReplyDeleteThere are some great posters here I like that one with the long,tall,brown tree one it.
ReplyDeleteI loved going outside and doing that tree investigation we were all brilliant at it.I was running round alot trying to warm also our posters were outstanding the one with the tree going all round the sheet was very eye caching.
ReplyDeleteThese graphs look really good! But my favorite is the third one, and well done for the first :)
ReplyDeleteWOW that looks difficult to do but all of you did it. Did all of you struggle or not? The graphs look amazing! :)
ReplyDeleteI love the presentation with the squares every where. It was really really fun measuring the trees.
ReplyDeleteFrom, Pav
This was the best maths lesson ever, and the method was really fun and easy. We had a ruler and we moved back until the bottom of the tree was at the bottom of the ruler and the top of the tree was at the top of the ruler. Then we had one of our friends to put a chalk mark on the tree where it was three centimeters on the ruler and then you get a bendy tape-measure and measured till the tape-measure was at the chalk mark and see what the measurement (in meters). Then times it by ten and then you would get the measurement of the tree. And you can do another method but that method is a bit... painful.
ReplyDeleteHi I am Samantha, it must be really fun to go out side,and make charts.Some of them
ReplyDeletelook amazing!It must have taken up all your time.I love all of them I really couldn't
choose between them if I had to. I think some of them
need to be finished, it looked like the
best maths lesson ever! I can't wait to
do it myself. It might take a long time
though. I hope my chart looks as amazing
as everyone's.
Your bar charts were brilliant! We never did anything as creative and exciting as that at my school. You lucky things, well done.
ReplyDeleteI really like the third poster with all the multi coloured squares and the lines on the bars are very good :D ;) =) :P
ReplyDeleteHi Ash Class,
ReplyDeleteMy maths class (year 5) have been looking at your work and we felt inspired!
On Wednesday we had some snow fall and were really excited. We decided to create a maths investigation exploring how far we could throw a snowball. We then needed to measure the distance accurately and record it in a table.
We also worked in collaboration with a class of year 3 children, taking it in turns to throw the snow and working together with the measuring and recording.
The next day, when we got back into class, we created our work to look similar to yours. We used our table and made graphs as well as presenting it in colour and with some drawings.
We are hoping to blog about it so when we do we'll share it with you if you're interested.
Thanks for the inspiration
Miss Grantham's Year 5 Maths class!