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IWB/Projector/Large Screen
Metre stick

End of Year Strands Tour

Tour the five families of maths you have studied this year — Number, Measures, Shape and Space, Data and Chance, and Algebra — and discover a big idea that appears in more than one of them.

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1 Getting Started
2 Watch and Notice
3 Try It Together
4 List the Five Families in Your Copy
5 Class Challenge
6 One Thing from the Year
7 What Did We Notice?
8 What's Next
Pupil practice

1 - Getting Started ~4 mins

Illustration for Getting Started All year you have worked in five big families of maths: Number, Measures, Shape and Space, Data and Chance, and Algebra.

Which family do you think you got best at this year? And which one caught you out the most?

👇 Mark your steps as done as you complete them.

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2 - Watch and Notice ~9 mins

Here are a few ideas from across the year on the board. Look at all the snapshots below. See if you can say what is the same about how we broke each one apart.

👇 Mark your steps as done as you complete them.

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3 - Try It Together ~8 mins

Today we tour the Data and Chance family together on the board. We will build a bar chart for how our class travels to school, using these totals in order:

Walk 12
Cycle 5
Bus 8
Car 3

Key point

Predict which bar will be tallest before we place it, and watch what the last small bar does to the shape.

How our class travels to school

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4 - List the Five Families in Your Copy ~3 mins

COPYBOOK MOMENT

In your maths copy, write the five family names one under the other. Beside each one, write a few words for something you did in that family this year.

Number
Measures
Shape and Space
Data and Chance
Algebra

Then draw a line linking any two families where you think the same idea turned up.

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5 - Class Challenge ~11 mins

Going outside

Groups of four or five, one metre stick (or a ruler, or a metre-marked length of string), one copybook and one pencil per group. Take the class to whatever flat space your school has room in — yard, hall, or corridor. Before the lesson, mark two routes with chalk or masking tape: a Short route under 1 m and a Medium route around 5 m.

Materials

metre stick (or ruler, or metre-marked string)
copybook
pencil
chalk or masking tape (to mark routes)

Plan

Before walking each route, write your estimate in the Estimate column first.
Route A (Short, under 1 m): don't pace this one — it is shorter than a full step. Estimate in centimetres, compare the line to half a metre stick, then check with the metre stick.
Route B (Medium, about 5 m): pace it. One pace is about 70 cm, so 7 paces is roughly 5 m. Estimate in metres, then lay the metre stick end-over-end to find the actual.
Write each actual measurement and work out the difference between your estimate and the actual.

If you can’t go out: indoor alternative

If the outside space is unusable, run the same Short and Medium structure indoors — masking tape for the Short line, and a stretch of the hall or corridor for the Medium.

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Pupil practice

Module 9 · Mathematical Modeling and End-of-year Review Mixed

Lesson 121 · End of Year Strands Tour

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