Maths Year 6 Transition Work

YEAR 6 TRANSITION WORK BLACKPOOL ASPIRE ACADEMY

Year 6 students, over this half term Aspire are setting you the challenge of creating a portfolio of work.

There will be 6 challenge days, collect your answers together in the best designs and bring them in with you when we you come to Aspire. The Maths team will judge your submissions and the top three entries will receive a prize!!

Challenge day one: The normal Maths

Challenge day two: The time dilemma

Put these 27 events in order from the shortest time to the longest time.

Challenge day 3: Challenge the adults

Challenge Day 4 Mathematical Shapes in Nature & Industry

■ Your challenge is to find and identify as many different shapes in the world of nature and Industry as you can.

■ Consider both 2D and 3D shapes.

■ You MUST take picture evidence of each shape you find.

■ You MUST be able name and identify each shape you find.

■ Additionally, can you identify any properties of that shape? How many can you list?

WAGOLL

Circle - 2D shape - 360 degree turn - 1 sides - No vertices - 1 face

Square Based Pyramid - 3D shape - Constructed from 4 triangles and 1 square - 8 sides - 5 vertices - 5 faces

Irregular Pentagon -2D shape - Has 5 sides, all of different length - Has 5 vertices, of different degrees - Angles add up to 540 degrees - Does not tesselate

Challenge day 5: making up the numbers

Challenge day 6: The farmer’s problem