Measuring - Capacity

It is really interesting finding out how much liquid a container holds. This is called "capacity". We had fun today measuring how many cups of water were in different containers. We had lots of chances to guess before we did the measuring.

Mathematical Bugs

Thursday, April 30th, 2009 We had a great maths lesson on sorting, using our collection of bugs. We sorted the bugs into lots of different groups according to
type of bug
colour of bug
good or bad bugs
live in Ireland or not
whether they are plain or multicoloured
whether they are insects or not
whether they can fly or not It was a great chance to talk about bugs, and to practice our sorting, all at the same time.

3D shapes

February 11th, 2009
We are using our activities to construct 3D shapes. We can make cubes, cuboids, triangular prisms, triangular pyramids and square pyramids
out of jigsaw pieces, solid 2D pieces, hollow 2D pieces and geomags.Here is a selection of the shapes we made. .

Friday, December 12th, 2008We are busy making the story of 10. We use hangers and pegs, beads, magnetic children and blocks, links and hoops and counters to help us. We are getting very good at this activity.

Matching numerals, words and spots

Maths gamesFriday, 14th November, 2008
Could you match each numeral with the correct number of spots and with its proper word? We did this today in groups and each group had a race. It was fun!

Maths - Learning about shapes

2D and 3D shapes activities

We have been learning a lot about 2D shapes: squares, circles, rectangles, triangles, ovals and hexagons and 3D shapes: cubes, cuboids, spheres, cylinders, triangular prisms, pyramids and cones.
Here are some of the activities we play at Maths time to help us find out more about the shapes. We play with logic attribute blocks, Make "n" break game, tangrams, guess the 3D shape and the shapes loop game.
When we have free play time in the morning we like making shapes from some of the other activities too.

Number games for Senior Infants

In Room 5 we are playing lots of number games. We play games that use a die like the Spotty Dog game, the Ladybird game and snakes and ladders. We also play a "more than" card game and a fish bingo game (that uses fish instead of a die). We play these games during Maths Activity time. We learn lots about numbers when we play these games.