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Maths Week 2015

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Maths Week 2015

By October 14, 2015July 19th, 2021No Comments

St. Aidans NS, along with schools all over the country, took part in Maths Week Ireland from October 12-16th. Maths Week Ireland promotes, awareness, appreciation and understanding of maths through a huge variety of events and activities.

Here is a sample of activities that we were involved in:

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Second Class learned about mazes and tried designing their own mazes!

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Fifth Class explored 2-D shapes.

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Senior Infants discovered lots of maths in the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs!

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Children from 3rd-6th Class took part in a challenge to build the tallest freestanding structure capable of supporting a marshmallow out of 20 sticks of spaghetti and 1m of masking tape. 8 pupils will be chosen to represent the school in a similar challenge at the MacWilliam Park Hotel on Wed 11th Nov  2015.

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Classes from 1st to 6th took part in a Puzzle Board Challenge.

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Winners were presented with prizes at our Hallowe’en School assembly.

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First Class went on a Shape Hunt.

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Children tried to find their way to the centre of this maze. It wasn’t as easy as it first looked!

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Second Class made this lovely display comparing heights in the class.

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6th Class explored tessellating shapes.

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1st Class made this number frieze.

We also ran a Maths Eyes competition for pupils from 3rd to 6th Class.Click here to see all entriesIMG_0698

Winners were presented with prizes at our Hallowe’en assembly.

Click here to see lots more photos

More photos on our blog under Classroom News