Fool proof numeracy lesson for year 5 & 6

fraggle · #1 (**permalink**) 06-09-2006, 08:10 AM

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OK as you know I haven't been near this year group before and just wondered if anyone would share any lessons they had for these year groups. I am trying to look at various things on the web but I'm worried that if I pick anything it might be something they have never come across before or that I find hard to quickly differentiate.

I just want something that is easy for me to just get on and do with little effort particularly if its last minute.

NuttySupplier · #2 (**permalink**) 06-09-2006, 08:31 AM

Ok, one they l-o-v-e, pin art. Only get them to do them on squared paper. Goes down a treat with the teacher who didn't leave any work for you (almost never happens, don't worry fraggle!) as it's an instant display too from the neatest
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-in-ers!

clarabelle · #3 (**permalink**) 06-09-2006, 08:34 AM

What's pin art?

fraggle · #4 (**permalink**) 06-09-2006, 08:36 AM

Having a thick moment, What's pin art?

NuttySupplier · #5 (**permalink**) 06-09-2006, 08:41 AM

Curvy graphs?

That's me showing my age again...

Ok, just give the kids the following instructions:

Draw axis, 10 up, 10 across (use X & Y if they'd get it)
Write on the numbers 0 - 10 as normal
Join 0 on the x-axis to 10 on the y-axis
Join 1 on the x-axis to 9 on the y-axis
2 to 8
3 to 7
4 to 6
etc.

You've got a curvy straight line graph!

Then, they can do a graph with four quadrants to make a
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, have axis that aren't at 90 degrees to eachother, join two graphs together, one upside down to make a square, then you get a leaf shape in the centre.

fraggle · #6 (**permalink**) 06-09-2006, 08:43 AM

I know what they are now
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NuttySupplier · #7 (**permalink**) 06-09-2006, 08:44 AM

Might be called something else, but I know it as that as dad used to do really intri
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e stuff...

In the 70's, he'd (this was fashionable!) cover a wooden board with black felt, them tap in some pins where he needed them, and go from one to the other with silver/gold thread. He
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e lots of abstracts, but I also remember a unicycle hanging on the wall in the lounge done the same way!

NuttySupplier · #8 (**permalink**) 06-09-2006, 08:50 AM

Actually not sure of the edu
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ional merit, and what you'd put down as your learning objective if you were asked, but every kid should know how to do them!

It also gets them more comfortable with drawing/reading graphs, which they all need practice on at that age! You could put about learning the vocab, axis/quadrant etc. I suppose.

clarabelle · #9 (**permalink**) 06-09-2006, 10:35 AM

Learning objective: To be able to use a pencil and a ruler accurately
To measure lines to the nearest mm
To draw four quadrants of a graph

I looked up "pin art" on google and it comes up with those office toys you stick your face/hand in to make a 3d pattern in the pins!!!!

Dannie78 · #10 (**permalink**) 06-09-2006, 10:59 AM

If pin art is what i THINK it is (!) couldn't another learning objective be to plot points accuratly? plus it is easily differentiated depending on how complex the children want to make the "art" from symple 2d shapes to, say, a simple picture of a
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.

OK from what people have said, my understanding is that its like those peg boards we used to have in KS1 (in my day) where you used rubber bands on the pin board to make shapes. Except this version is dots on graph paper rather than a peg board, and pencil and ruler as opposd to rubber bands. Am i close!?!?

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