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12th November 2021

Maths Week Scotland 2021

 Maths Week Scotland 2021

The fabulous Junior School Mathematicians have been buzzing with excitement this week as Maths Week Scotland 2021 got underway!

Primary 1 have been exploring properties of 2D shapes, playing dice party games, and making shape crowns for our Friday Maths costume competition. Primary 2 were solving number problems for the Gruffalo while Primary 3 explored number and helped Noah calculate the animals that went onto the ark!

Primary 4 classes were amazed to discover and explore Escher tessellations, producing a class reptile tessellation before exploring with their own tessellation tiles, and Primary 5 enjoyed collaborative and competitive maths games and dazzled their teachers with their amazing 6 card trick!

Meanwhile, Primary 6 persevered to crack the shape code and enjoyed a variety of number puzzles which encouraged them to dig deeper and have fun exploring numbers.

Primary 7 explored the amazing world of multiplying by 11 and completed several challenges, demonstrated excellent Mathematics knowledge as they explored and explained their strategies to their peers.