Maths Week Scotland - Schiehallion

In our learning over the last few weeks, Schiehallion have been investigating and learning about place value – making sure we understand the value of each digit within a number. Specifically this week, we have been looking at multiplying and dividing numbers by 10, 100 and even 1000.

We wanted to transfer this learning into some art work – so we created Mondrian art designs using 3 digit numbers as our stimulus. The children used two 3 digit numbers to create a sum, and then used the corresponding dienes blocks to create their pictures.

For example, if our sum came to 675, you would need to use six 100 blocks, seven 10 blocks and 5 single blocks.

I think you’ll agree that they came out really well.