To ask for any creative project ideas around maths for Year 4 kids?

[Thelowquietsea]

I'm running some creative sessions for my DS and his friends online...maths isn't my forte. They're all doing the curriculum based maths learning, but I wanted to do something more creative.

I have zilch ideas. Any thoughts? Many thanks

You could do a real life trick question puzzle that are making the rounds atm.

3 apples = 60

5 bananas = 25

3 oranges - 1 banana = 13

1 apple + 2 banana * 4 oranges =?

Or you could make the answers money so they practice that

Try these: www.rigb.org/education/masterclasses/masterclass-resources

The book my year 5 class were reading in English mentioned Fibonacci so I explained how the number pattern worked. Some of them were really interested and went home and had a go at working out the sequence for themselves. It's found a lot in nature and could make for some creative art/maths work.

Ooh actually with @Smellbellina the pirate game is bloody brilliant! Might potentially need to take some of the rules away to make it a bit easier for y4s who aren't all in the same room. My y6s asked to play it constantly in the last week of term instead of the usual dvds!

Radius of the lost ark is quite fun to play but it needs a computer as it needs flash. The little surprise at the end made the kids I played with want to try it again and again. Goes through most things from basic addition to measurements to positioning. It has various levels of difficulty.

My classes have always loved making skeleton shapes with spaghetti and blu tack!

Statistics project:

All of them watch from their window for an hour and keep a record of what they see: cars, people, dogs, lorries (whatever categories they want). Then they can do individual pie charts and bar charts, but they can also combine their data and compare their individual records with the overall to see who gets the most of what thing.

Or if they have some hobby or whatever that they're all interested in, try to think of some statistics to collect related to that.