To start the term, children spent a few lessons looking at place value of different numbers. Children identified the value of different digits in numbers, and moved on to ordering numbers.
Children worked through ordering numbers up to 1000, 10,000, 100,000 and finally 1 million.
To bring this mini topic to an end, I challenged the children to apply their maths skills.
They were given a sheet containing 12 ‘celebrities’ (our school and local comprehensive included) and the number of followers they had on Twitter. Children then had to apply the skills they had learned to put the celebrities into order.
The children thoroughly enjoyed the activity and with some suppprt, all were able to complete the task accurately.
I later tweeted the work out to all of the celebrities that we included. Unfortunately, a large number did not react to seeing their Twitter profile in a Year 5 child’s maths book.
However @ICT_MrP posted an image of the work on his Facebook page. The children could not believe it when i told them that a simple picture of their work had received over 4,000 reactions, 2,000 comments and 307 shares.
When looking through the comments on Facebook, a number of teachers were saying how they would like a copy to use with their class. A PDF of the images is attached at the bottom of this page, free for anyone to download and use as they wish. All I ask is that teachers may take a look at my Facebook Page (Mr J – Primary School Tech Ideas) and follow me on twitter (@MrJ1199)
