At Scotts Primary, Hornchurch, Gary Clapperton is revising the geometry of 2 dimensional shapes with his Year 6 class. He is using digital photographs of the local area that the children have taken. These have been saved on his interactive white board which is used extensively. Gary is making a distinction between explicit shapes, those that can be clearly identified and drawn onto the photographs he is using in his lesson (the 'real life story') and implicit shapes, those that can be found by mathematical abstraction (the 'maths story'). The children draw round the explicit shapes on their own photographs. Some demonstrate to the class on the interactive white board which promotes a class discussion to identify parallelograms and isosceles triangles. The properties of rectangles are revised, relating them to the ratio of the length of the sides. Gary reiterates the properties of triangles using ones children have found in their photographs during group work.

Video Series: KS2 Maths
Release Date 2005