Maths Week

Maths Week 2024

We are thrilled to share that we celebrated Maths Week at our school from October 15th to 18th! Throughout the week, students took part in a variety of fun and educational activities designed to foster a love for mathematics.

Highlights of the week included:

A "Guess How Many Sweets in the Jar" competition, which ran across the entire school, adding some excitement and competition!
Each class participated in a problem-solving challenge, encouraging students to think creatively and work together to find solutions.
Students enjoyed engaging activities such as maths trails around the school, creating their own shape monsters, and competing in a lively Maths Quiz!

It was a fantastic week filled with lots of learning, collaboration, and fun! We're already looking forward to next year's Maths Week!

Our winners for guess how many sweets in the jar were Alicia in Junior Infants, Ellie in 2nd Class, Ciara in 3rd Class and two winners in 5th Class Eoghan and Avey. The number of sweets in each jar was 65 with most of our winners guessing the exact number!

Our winner for the class problems were Úna from Junior Infants, Cillian from Senior Infant, Lucas from 1st Class, Eileen from 2nd Class, Penny from 3rd Class, Clodagh from 4th class, Lauren from 5th Class and Jamie from 6th Class.

Maths Week 2023

Last week, 16th- 20th October we celebrated Maths Week.

We held a ‘Guess the Weight of the Pumpkin’ competition, which proved to be one of the star attractions of Maths Week. We had some wide ranging guesses from the students. Well done to our winner Eoin O Donnell. He was the closest to the weight, 4720g.

All classes were also given a Maths Week Challenge. All pupils were encouraged to figure out their challenge and put their answers in a box in their classrooms when complete.

All correct answer sheets were entered into a draw and one winner was selected in each class. Well done to Leah

Wall (Junior infants), Shauna Kelly (Senior infants) Harrison Ryan (1st Class), Aíne Flaherty (2nd Class), James Flaherty (3rd Class), Lauren O Grady (4th Class), Siana O Grady (5th Class) and Jack Duane (6th Class) who won the competition and answered all questions correctly.

A wide range of other fun activities were undertaken throughout the week by each of our classes including building a numicon city, making a pictogram based on a pack of smarties, Maths games and ICt Games, creating

shape Monsters, scavenger hunts, Maths walks, Izak 9, problem solving and much more.

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Every year we celebrate Maths week in October where all our pupils participate in a range of maths related activities.

This is What we did for this years maths week.

We held a ‘Guess How Many Sweets Are In The Jar’ competition, which proved to be one of the star attractions of Maths Week. We had some wide ranging guesses from the students. Well done to our winner Harriet Healey.

All classes were also given a Maths Week Challenge. All pupils were encouraged to figure out their challenge and put their answers in a box in their classrooms when complete. All correct answer sheets were entered into a draw and one winner was selected in each class. Well done to Ryan O Grady (Junior infants), Lucia Tully (senior infants) Charlie Klavins Crowe (1st Class), Patrick Smith(2nd Class), Ava Daniels (3rd Class), Cian Ollerenshaw (4th Class), Dáithí Burns (5th Class) and Aleksander Ziolek(6th Class) who won the competition and answered all questions correctly.

A wide range of other fun activities were undertaken throughout the week by each of our classes. Our infants learnt about lines (juniors) and 2D Shapes(seniors), they went out and about on maths trails using their maths eyes to identify lines, shapes and other maths in our school environment. Both our 1st and 2nd classes completed an ‘All about me’ poster where they explored all the important numbers in their lives. 1st class also made pictures using 2D shapes while 2nd class had a maths board Gameathon where they enjoyed lots of Maths Board Games. 3rd class played Planet Maths games online to revise concepts such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and time. Having fun while practising maths skills at the same time. Our 4th class attended an online problem solving workshop with Franz Schlindwein(creator of Izaq 9), played some new maths games during maths stations and linked literacy with maths. Our senior classes had a maths table quiz. All classes had great fun playing maths games throughout the week and our senior infants also even made pizzas while learning about shapes!

Well done to everyone who put in an extra special effort in the area of maths. A special well done to Luke Bohan, Rebecca Burke, Aibhlín Moore, Róisín Joyce, Muire Byrne, Emma Burke, Conal McDonagh and Séan Molloy who were our Mathletes of the week.

We are already looking forward to next year. Check out our website to see more pictures of all the activities we took part in during maths week.

Izak 9

In association with Galway Education Centre, our 5th and 6th classes had the opportunity to take part in a number of interactive maths sessions using Izak 9 maths resource during maths week. Izak 9 cubes allow learners to engage in hands on learning with abstract maths concepts such as prime numbers. It also develops their team work skills, problem solving skills and ability to explain their mathematical thinking. During maths week, both classes also engaged in a live zoom lesson utilising the maths resource Izak 9. Great fun was had utilising the cubes during Maths Week. Favourite activities include eliminator and total recall. Thank you to Mr. Treacy for co-ordinating the initiative.

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