Fun with maths

 We have a lot of fun with our EDpaX Maths games on our whiteboard.

We use our number fans when we are guessing what the right answers are.

Measuring distances

We flew our foam rockets again today.

Today we measured how far they could fly.

Teachers rocket flew 4 meter sticks away, one flew 3 meters and our champion one flew 6 meters!

We placed meter sticks side by side to determine how far each rocket flew.

Number activities

We had fun in groups playing with some number activities.

Loop games

We are revising all the words from last year while playing a great loop game.

Each person has a card and must watch it carefully.

You play your card in turn until all are finished, then teacher does a magic trick to find the missing word or shape.  Some of us have guessed teacher's magic!

Maths activities in Senior infants

Here are some of the maths games and activities we have played this week:

We have focused on the numbers 0-10.

We use the counting stick to say the numbers before and after other numbers and to count sequentially (forwards or backwards) starting at any number on the stick.

We use the flip number line to hide a number or maybe two or three numbers.  The children have to guess the hidden number or numbers by focusing on the numbers that they can still see.

We use the number fans to show teacher what the correct answer is to questions like:

What is the number before ....... what is the number after......... what number is between ........and............

We also use them to show teacher the answer to the word stories (addition and subtraction) that teacher calls out, like: I have 3 fish and mum gives me 2 more. How many have I now?

Sometimes we just show teacher the number she calls out.

For our activity sorting this week we were sorting different objects according to different colours.
Each table had a turn to sort common items, teddy bears, farm animals, bottle tops and cubes.
WE  LOVE  MATHS!!!

Eye colour and hair colour data charts

We made some cool data charts with the help of our interactive whiteboard and our special EDpaX Maths CD. 

 We figured out how many of our class had eyes of each colour and hair of each colour and we made data charts with this information.  It was a very interesting activity.