Friday maths

Date: 23rd Sep 2017 @ 11:39pm

On Friday, we did some hands-on decimal work. First of all, we found out how tall Roald Dahl was (as it was recently Roald Dahl day) and laid out some rulers to see how big 6 foot 6 is. Then we compared our own heights to Roald Dahls and realised just how big he was! Then we looked up how big the BFG was supposed to be - 24 foot! We worked out the difference between Roald Dahl and the BFG in feet and inches, then converted that to centimetres and finally, converted that into metres.... we found it really tricky!

Then, to give us a brain break, we played a decimal number bond to 1 game and Jack J set a high score for us to try and beat next week! In the afternoon, we measured how far we could jump in centimetres and then converted it to metres.... none of us came close to Mike Powell's record of 8.95m, but Luke W jumped the farthest in our class-competition with an impressive double-footed leap of 2.19m! 😊