KES Year Four Maths Competition- Ruckleigh wins first place!

We started the day with some warm up activities before completing a number cross, this is similar to a crossword but the answers are numbers and the order in which the clues are solved requires careful consideration. We had practised our techniques in school and as a team we felt we had scored well, applying all of our knowledge about palindromes, square numbers, prime numbers and cubed numbers.

This was followed by a mathematical relay race which required our team to split in to two pairs in order to complete reasoning problems in the quickest time possible. Our team worked quickly and carefully to solve the problems whilst remembering to read each question carefully to avoid jumping to the wrong conclusion.

After the relay race we had lunch and a much needed break outside.

 In the afternoon, we enjoyed a fun maths lesson with Barney Maunder-Taylor, a former Oxford graduate, Countdown contestant and lecturer. Barney made us think about probability when rolling two dice and how to use this to our advantage in games such as Monopoly.

Finally, we were invited in to the performing arts centre to watch a presentation by Barney Maunder-Taylor, he made us think about shape, capacity, time. We discovered what truncated 3d shapes look like and why it is a good idea to have 60 minutes in an hour. 

The day concluded with the winners announcement and we came FIRST!! Each member of our team was presented with a medal, trophy and a certificate. As a team, we also won a maths game for school.

Mrs Groen is very proud of our team, they represented our school beautifully and demonstrated many advanced reasoning and problem solving skills. Well done team!!  

Rachael Groen