Smooth Operators...

Some of our Year 5 gifted and talented mathematicians have be lucky enough to have 'taster' lessons at high school. Over the last few weeks, members of classes 5A and 5B have been furthering their maths skills with a range of interesting challenges.


Initially, they were tasked to work out the cost of various items of shopping and how much change they would receive if they were given a certain amount of money to spend.




They then had to design a fruit smoothie recipe, taking into consideration the proportions of ingredients and how this might affect the flavour of the drink. The group also looked at weights and measures and the importance of being accurate when reading the results from a scale.

They produced posters to describe the quantities of the ingredients and finally they had to carefully weigh out the amounts of products and use a measuring jug to get the correct amount of milk for their smoothies.

Here are a selection of photos showing the smoothies being made:



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