Marvellous Maths Day
We love Mathematics at Malvern St James Girls' School, we understand the qualities surrounding mathematics and its power of reasoning, creativity, critical thinking and problem solving.
Here at MSJ we make learning mathematics fun, laying the foundations of clear concepts. Everyone needs and uses mathematics in everyday life, without even realising it. Even insects and bugs are entrenched in the wonderful world of mathematics. Spiders design webs, bees build hexagonal honeycomb, snails make their own shells…do not get us started on the Fibonacci sequence. Put quite simply, mathematics is everywhere.
During these periods of lockdown, remote learning has not stopped us from being creative with our rich mathematics curriculum and delivering interactive lessons to our students. On Friday 5 February we invite you to take part in our Marvellous Maths Day and discover how much fun maths can be.
Dressing Up Maths Style
Girls and staff in MSJ Prep are dressing up maths style and we want you to join us. We will be running a best dressed competition on twitter, with a prize for the most inventive maths attire. To enter all you need to do is tag @MalvernStJames into your twitter post and use #MarvellousMaths and we will be in touch with the best dressed.
Below are a few ideas for how you could dress up. This would make a great activity for you and your children to do over the weekend ready for our Marvellous Maths Day.
Dice
You’ll need a cuboid or square piece of cardboard. If using a box remove the bottom of the box and make a hole for the arms and head. For some lockdown art, get your child to paint it all over in white. Once it has dried you can either paint or stick black dots on it.
Playing cards
Cut two large pieces of card (thicker is better) and fasten them together with ribbon or elastic by cutting holes in the top and threading through. Paint the card white or cover with white paper and use your art skills to copy a deck of cards.
It’s a piece of cake
The Year 6’s have completed lots of fractions this year already. Cut out a piece of cake/pizza shape to decorate and then write on the approximate fraction of that piece, out of a whole.
Clock face
Get creative with face paints and paint a clock face on your face.
Up-cycling
Take an old top and write all your favourite digits or calculations on it.
Resources
Here are a number of resources you can print off for your children to complete. In addition to these we encourage you to incorporate mathematics into everything you do on Marvellous Maths Day be that your lessons or the things you do at home. How many stairs are in your house, have you used equations in science, how many birds you see on a walk?
Please feel free to use and share our mathematic resource booklets, these pull in resources from some of our favourite topics so far this academic year.
