Coding: Computer programming

Measuring with lolly sticks

We had fun using lolly sticks, our rulers and the metre stick to measure items in the class:

Patterns in Maths

Making angles

Learning about 2D shapes

Making number stories

Tall, taller, tallest in Senior Infants

Matching activity in Senior Infants

Pumpkin fun

Junior infants learn about colours

Halloween Maths

We hope you all got a chance to check out our Spooky Hallowe'en creation outside our classroom!

Test yourself or a friend:
How many pumpkins are there?
Are some pumpkins bigger than other ones?
Can you spot any other differences between the pumpkins?
How many spiders can you count?
Do they all have the same number of legs?
Are there more big spiders than little spiders?

Maths Week 2015

This is maths week and also EU coding week.

(October 10th-18th 2015)

We are having a lot of fun with maths and coding/programming this week.

Here are some of the fun activities we have been doing during maths week:

Ms. McLoughlin's class: Maths trail

Ms. McLoughlin's class: Marshmallow maths

Ms. Groarke's class: Maths fun

Ms. Cunningham's class: Diggy Doggy maths

Ms. McLoughlin's class: Geoboard maths

LEGO club maths

Ms. Mullin's class: Maths trail

Ms. Gilligan's class learn about colours

Maths Trail in Ms. Crotty's class

Ms. Connolly's class: Computer maths and Maths trail

Maths week: Geoboard maths

Maths Week: Fun maths
Today's fun maths activities were the geoboards.
We had to make 2D shapes with elastic bands on our geoboards.

squares

rectangles and squares

triangles

more triangles

pentagons

 hexagons

octogons

working together

and finally, diamonds.

We are getting so good at identifying shapes according to how many sides and angles each one has.

Marshmallow maths

For Maths week we did lots of work on 2D and 3D shapes....
...with marshmallows and toothpicks.

We made triangles, squares,

pentagons,

hexagons,

We changed our hexagons into rectangles and squares.

We figured out how to make cubes. We found that these cubes were not very strong.

Here are the numbers of marshmallows and toothpicks you would need to make these shapes.

We made triangular prisms,

and pyramids (square pyramids and triangular pyramids).  These were much stronger than the cubes we made earlier.

We also had time to make our own structures (rockets, giant cubes, stars and other interesting shapes).