I tried out yesterday’s maths puzzle with my Year 6 group this morning. It was quite interesting. I didn’t know I could divide three digit numbers by 7 quite so easily for a start! They were genuinely impressed when I could work out their starting number. I honestly didn’t think they would be. The explanation was a little above them however!
If you didn’t see it, here’s the puzzle.
The Apprentice tonight has irritated me. Firstly, week four we’re on now and I still don’t actually like any of them. I’m not overly sure why, but they aren’t getting me as interested as in previous years. Secondly, one of them didn’t know what carrots were. I kid you not. Carrots. Carrots. Finally, the tasks, while good and interesting still, haven’t produced decent shows really. Tonight’s episode based around a farm shop, was very difficult to predict the outcome of as far as the teams went. Neither of them came up with decent ideas in my view and the show didn’t really take any opportunity to display some characters. I feel like there are a few of the candidates we still haven’t actually met. I’m sticking with it though – a bad Apprentice episode is still better than a lot of choice on TV generally.
As for work today, my class are working on their own Robin Hood tales still and a fair bit of the night was taken up marking their writing. Thoroughly enjoyed reading their different twists on the silver arrow story.
They know what carrots are too.
