Throughout this week we have been participating in a range of maths challenges. The aim for the week was to complete maths challenges and not give up, even when they got tricky.

We completed a Sudoku puzzles, logic problems, measuring activities along with general problem solving linked to our dinosaur topic. This morning we took the opportunity to share our work with Year 2 and look at what problems each class had been completing.

This week has given the children the chance to try and try again, without feeling like they had failed at a task. During the afternoons we then turned our attention to our topic of dinosaurs and thinking about measurements. Today we answered the question;

Who would have been tallest; a dinosaur or a person?

To complete this task we first researched how tall the dinosaurs were. We then used the measuring tape to measure out in feet and inches. These measurements don’t really mean much to us at the moment so we compared the size to children. We had lots of fun measuring each other and finding alternative ways to make the measurement. Poor Chandler and Sumeiya were chosen constantly as we always found that other children were just a little bit too tall. Our final outcome was that dinosaurs were definitely bigger, especially the T-rex.

During check out this afternoon, we discussed the things we have enjoyed about school this week. It was clear that all children have enjoyed the challenge of maths week and really embraced persevering.

This afternoon Puffin class received an email, we found out that a dinosaur had been in our school last night. We were so shocked we went on an adventure looking for clues. We found half eaten carrots, mud, our plants all eaten and an enormous muddy footprint. Here are the pictures we received.

We were given the task to find out how big he was. We tried lots of different methods but none of them measured the footprint accurately.

We then thought about using our shoes to compare the dinosaur with us. We split into groups, took off our shoes and started to measure.

This is what we found;

7 shoes + 7 shoes + 7 shoes + 8 shoes = 29 shoes

This meant that the dinosaurs footprint was the same size as 29 of our feet. He must be enormous.

We then thought about finding a home for 29 children (because they are the same size as the triceratops). We tried Mrs Roses room, the sunshine room, the media centre and the staff room. However nowhere is big enough to keep him.

The only place we could find to keep him, was outside. However, we thought of lots of problems with him being outside;

We concluded that we can’t keep him because he is just too big.