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Over the past few weeks, Year Six have been learning all about fractions. Adding and subtracting, simplifying and converting - if there's a question involving fractions, Year Six know what to do! The poster below was created by Joshua in 6CC to help other children to remember how to do certain methods (one of his Future Me pledges).

Reasoning is an extremely important skill to master in Year Six and is worth two thirds of the total marks in the Year Six SAT papers. The bar method is a brilliant tool to help develop this skill, which uses a bar to visually represent what we know and what we need to find out.

Thinking blocks is an app used at CJS to practise using the bar method - it is also downloadable at home. Year Six have been enjoying working their way through the large bank of questions that it has to offer.

November was renamed Barvember at CJS (courtesy of White Rose Maths Hub) and one question that has had Mrs Cleghorn and Mr Murphy stumped is pictured below. 

Are you up for a challenge? Post your solution as a comment under this blog!