Year 8 PSHEE Stock Exchange

Congratulations to Year 8 for their wonderful efforts on the PSHEE day today.  Points were awarded to teams for two things...

Firstly how well they kept their accounts.  Perfect accuracy meant a score of 200, with 3 points lost for each pound difference between their actual money, and how much their accounts said they should have had!

Secondly was the quality of their presentations, how well they sold their products, again .with a top score of 200.

Here are how the teams did...

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This was also a House competition, and here are the house results...


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Well done to everyone!

Fynamore Y4 & 5

Today I visited Fynamore School, and did my first session with some Year 4 and 5 mathematicians.  I'm looking forward to working with this group once a fortnight.  Here is the problem we worked on today...

Here is our summary of what we did (click to hear what the students are saying)...

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Y7 Challenge Day

Well done to the 8 year sevens who went to St Mary's for a maths challenge day.  Here is what they did...

World Education Games...

The World Education Games are here!  You have all been registered, and you will have your logins and passwords before half term.  Can anyone beat Kayliegh's magnificent 72 questions correct in 60 seconds?  Can we be the highest totalling school in Wiltshire?  Will your tutor group be victorious.

Get Practising now

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Intermediate Maths Challenge

Congratulations to the 100 year 9 and 10 students who took part in the UK Intermediate maths challenge last week.  This is a competition that set challenging problems, and is a national competition.  We don't know results yet; they get set off to the UK Maths Trust, but when they do we will let you know who excelled, although all that took part from year 10 maths set 1, and year 9 sets 1 and 2 should be congratulated for their effort in what is a very exacting competition.  Questions are multiple choice, but losing marks for wrongs answers soon discourages you from merely guessing, and don't forget, no calculators!

Example questions from this year are...

9.
Auntie Fi's dog Itchy has a million fleas.  His anti-flea shampoo claims to leave no more than 1% of the original number of fleas after use.  What is the least number of fleas that will be eradicated by the treatment?
A: 900000              B: 990000        C: 999000         D:999990          E: 999999


17.
The first term of a sequence of positive integers is 6.  The other terms in the sequence follow these rules:

• if a term is even then divide it by 2 to get the next term;
• if a term is odd then multiply by 5 and subtract 1 to get the next term.

For which value of n is the nth term equal to n?

A: 10 only               B: 13 only         C: 16 only            D: 10 and 13 only         E: 13 and 16 only

20.
A rectangle with are 125 cm2 has sides in the ratio 4:5. What is the perimeter of the rectangle?
A: 18cm         B: 22.5 cm           C: 36cm            D: 45cm           E: 54 cm

Feel free to offer your answers in a comment below!

Congratulations

... to Alex Jack and Lydia who got their GCSE Results today.

They took their full GCSE Maths early in November, having taught themselves most of the course, and being supported by the Maths team.

Their A* results (all of them) is a reflection of the hard work and attention to detail they showed in preparing for their exams.

All three will now be sitting the new GCSE Further Maths course in the Summer, and we look forward to their continued success in their mathematical studies!

Well done!

Year 7 Data Collection

We're also looking forward to
challenging you on
World Maths day 2012!

Please help my 7B2 maths class.

We are hoping  to collect data from as many Year 5, Year 6 and Year 7 as we can, from around the world.


For international visitors, this is students born between 1st September 1999 and 31st August 2002

The links below are to each group of students questionnaires. Please please complete as many of them as you feel able to do, and pass the link of this blog around your classmates  / friends / family.

We will publish the results of our data collection through this blog also. We are going to leave the forms open for a while to allow schools on holiday in January (I'm looking at you Australia!) to contribute.


Many many thanks in advance.