The start of the new term and the first week has been fun. It is Project Week and the focus has been about Maths around the world. Our aim was to learn and claim crystal through out the week. The groups with the most crystals were the winners. To do this we had to show resilience and work as a team to solve calculations.
We started the week learning about Ancient Greek Mathematician Pythagoras who discovered angles of a triangle. We further developed our learning by learning about Claudius Ptolemy who discovered trigonometry. To understand his theory the children created 3D pyramids. We solved addition and subtraction skills by using jottings and resources. We decoded hieroglyphics numbers and solved calculations.
We continued to learn about other famous mathematicians such as Qin Jinshao who was a famous Chinese mathematician. He wrote an important study on equations and remainders. We solved Chinese calculations and created a poster. We learned how to say the numbers in Chinese and created our own Chinese calculations.
It has been a fun, packed week full of numbers where we have gained.
Please take a look at our work.
What did you enjoy learning about this week?
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