Maths Able Day - Salma K and Sawdah C

Yesterday we were not at school, instead we were at Broadgreen Primary school where we joined the Maths Able Day with Mr Pete Hall.

When we arrived, our group was early so we got to play some fun word games.

For a starter we looked at incorrect maths people have sent him on Facebook (which he did not understand). They were complicated but we got through it anyway at the end.

Later on during the day, Mr Pete Hall showed us correct maths that was still complicated that he has taught in the past. There was a triangle with 6 circles and we had to put numbers from 1 to 6 inside the circles and add each of the sides together and put the total in the middle of the triangle and we kept doing it and tried to get the highest and lowest number.

The triangle practice in progress 

After play, we did something different, Mr Hall gave out pencils and sheets of paper ( which he flipped over so that none of us cheated). Then he put on a maths program called Big Maths Beat That.
The program is basically a timer which has music in the background. When it said go we flipped over our paper (which had 72 additions and multiplications) each of us got 1 minute and a half to get as many answers as possible done in the time given (you can chose how many minute or seconds you would like your timer to last ).

After that, we had our lunch (yum yum) then we went outside were we made new friends and played on there climbing frame

When we came back in sir taught us how to use the magic square it is a 3 by 3 square grid that had numbers that people around the world think is magical .

After learning about the magic square, we learnt how to make chinese tangrams. There are 7 different shapes that we needed to make other shapes out of e.g. square, swan, right angle and triangle.

Overall the day was amazing we enjoyed being apart of Maths Able Day and meeting Mr Pete Hall.