Short Desciption

This project bring together 6 Special Schools from EU all with a slightly different area of focus and expertise but all school are aware of the social isolation of their pupils. Our project aims to tackle this issue and enable our pupils to play a more productive and involved role in our European society. Our efforts aim to ensure we raise skill levels of these vulnerable students and have a direct and life long impact on the connectivity with society in general.

Thursday, November 4, 2021

KS3 Maths Investigation - Thornfield House School, Belfast Northern Ireland

The pupils in our KS3 department, aged 11-14 years, completed a maths investigation using a large Halloween skull.  He represented the myth (story) of how the Giants Causeway was built thousands of years ago.

 The first part of the investigation involved them in deciding what resources they would need to measure the Giant skull and their height. 

Then then did the measuring in pairs independently.We found that the Giants skull was just over 2 times the mean size of the pupils' skulls.  We then found the mean height for our pupils.  We used this to estimate of the giants head being twice as big as ours to double our height to estimate the height of the Giant.

The teacher modelled how to work out the Mean, Mode, Median and Range for the second worksheet.





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