Maths @ St John's

Maths News

There has been lots of great Maths learning happening across the school over the last couple of weeks.

The Prep students have been exploring Mass and Capacity through engaging, hands-on activities. The students have learned how to use hefting and balance scales to determine whether an object is heavier or lighter. They have also discovered that capacity refers to the amount a container can hold, such as identifying whether a container is full, half-full or empty.

In Year 1/2, the students have been beginning their Maths lessons with a range of games to practise fluency with basic number facts.

Here the students are using their number knowledge to work out the number on their card by asking questions e.g.

Is my number an odd number?
Is my number a 2-digit number?
Does my number have 3 tens?

Have a go at playing this game at home too!!!

Over the last few weeks, the students in 1/2 have been learning about multiplication (grouping) and division (sharing). They have explored different ways to represent multiplication and division problems by skip counting, using repeated addition and subtraction, making arrays and modelling problems using concrete materials.