Learning Maths with Life of Fred: Cats The more I do Life of Fred, the more confident I am about it working as an exclusive way to teach maths. The girls really enjoy maths, and I can see it working in ways that I didn't with the older ones. We have just finished Life of…
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Five Maths Baggies: Mathematical Activities for Quiet Time
My younger two girls are not quite the readers their older brother and sisters were at their age. The older ones would have happily read for an hour during their quiet time each day and complain when it ended. The younger ones manage about half an hour before they start to get the wriggles. I…
Archimedes {Mathematician Study}
The first mathematician study we covered was Archimedes. Archimedes was a well known mathematician and inventor, alive during 287-212 BC in Ancient Greece. Well known for the Archimedes’ Principle and the Archimedes’ Screw, he was most interested in catoptrics, mechanics and pure maths. Archimedes Resources First, we learnt all about Archimedes by first reading the…
Maths Investigations using Penrose, the Mathematical Cat: Investigating Polygons
I have written before about our change to a living maths approach using Life of Fred as our backbone, and I think I might have mentioned wanting to spend some of our time investigating a certain aspect of numbers in greater depth. I have a few maths based books, but Penrose the cat is by…