We've spent a lot of our maths time this week investigating the relationship between area and perimeter and how to split compound shapes up in order to calculate their area. We put their skills into practice when the class were tasked with finding the area of actual shapes drawn onto the playground. They're taking careful measurements before spliting the shapes and working out the space they take up. We're beginning to understand the Maya quite well and so can understand what the value of the buildings would have been in one of their settlements. This week, we learnt about their understanding of the stars and their abilities to work with number to calculate patterns and season timings. We then applied that knowledge to create a Maya civilisation out of Lego - they had to look carefully at pictures of actual settlements aswell as their own knowledge to create their own version.
Here's the look we're going for.... Were they successful? Have a great bank holiday Mr Breckon