Mathematics Update

This term students have been attending Maths Toolboxes in five distinct groups. These are organised, broadly, around the students' point of need. For example, one group is working on measurement
 of area, perimeter and angle, while another has concentrated on "number sense" with games of Multo and Addo, alternative forms of multiplication, and attention to place value.

There's a great display in one corner of the West Wing of student work about ratio, percentage and fractions - they learnt about this through investigating the effect of varying the proportion of syrup in cordial drinks!
The photo here shows a student with a sphinx, made by tesselating smaller sphinx shapes. It's a wonderful, rich, open ended investigation that only present the tip of the iceberg for on-going mathematical learning. This link to the Mathematics Task Centre will lead you further into the mysteries of the sphinx, and this link to The Changing Shape of Geometry might tempt you to explore start "working like a mathematician" yourself.
(both links should open in new windows)