Maths
Trainer
Flex
your Maths muscles!
Part
1 Large numbers and Place Value
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Why
revise and practise?
People
in a range of professions; Musicians, athletes, footballers, writers, doctors,
nurses, all must learn and practise skills in order to do a quality job. As learners of Maths we too need not only to
learn new knowledge and skills but also to go over (revise) and practise what
we have learnt to help these skills to go into our longer term memory and to
help us become speedier, more accurate and grow and improve as mathematicians.
Why Maths?
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Your
may not always think about how Maths is used all around you but it's use is
everywhere. Take the building of an
Olympic stadium. Maths is used to measure and survey a suitable site for the
stadium. Budgets have to be calculated for the materials and labour needed to
build it. Complicated schedules have to be drawn up for all the different
engineering tasks involved in getting a site ready and in organising and
managing the build. Measure is involved
in so many parts of the build from calculating the volume of Earth that will
need to be removed, to working out in scale drawings and plans the size of the
site, the volume of people it will hold, the size of pitches and tracks and so
on. When the stadium is up and running
Maths will be used to timetable events, work out the pricing of tickets, count
those arriving to the venue, estimating parking and transport, timing athletes,
presenting data on them and their achievements.
The list is endless. Can you
think of anything else Maths would be used for in this context?
So
get ready to flex your Maths muscles using this paper to help you practise and improve your Maths
skills.
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Large numbers
Large
numbers are all around us, from numbers of people watching a television
programme, to people logging onto a YouTube video, to number of people
attending an event or living in Scotland. A knowledge of reading and using
large numbers is important.
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Do
your work on this document then email it to me at Primary6Astore@hotmail.co.uk
Remember
to:
•
Rename the document so that it is called Maths trainer then
your name
•
To put Maths and your name as the title of your email
•
You will need to go to settings and link your iPad to your
email to be able to send and receive emails
Creative
task
Collect
some big numbers from different places and say where you found them e.g in the
2011 season of major league baseball in the U.S. 73 451 522 people attended
games. Premier league-13,407,540 . people in Scotland -5,062,011
Dark
haired people have 108,000 hairs. 220,000,000 cats in the world
Get
online!
The
link below takes you to a link which helps you to visualise really big
numbers. The site is American and so
uses cents.
Ever
wondered what a trillion dollars looks like?
The
game below helps you to practise typing a number out in words.
73
451 022
Partition
3 big numbers e.g. In the number quoted above there are:
73
millions
4
hundred thousands
5
ten thousands
1
thousand
0
hundreds
2
tens
2
units
234
876 916
234
million
8
hundred thousands
7
ten thousands
6
thousand
9
hundreds
1
ten
6
units
34
215 879
34
million
2
hundred thousand
1
ten thousand
5
thousand
8
hundreds
7
tens
9
units
21
345 678
21
million
3
hundred thousand
4
ten thousands
5
thousand
6
hundred
7
tens
8
units
Type
out 2 more large numbers in this form.
Say
what the underlined number is worth e.g. In the first example the 3 is worth 3
hundreds.
For
example,
54
324, - 3 hundreds
Now
you have a go:
54
233, - 4 thousand
55 600, - 5 ten thousands
65
330, -3 tens
10 540 000, -10 million
10,
999 999 -9 units
Play
a game
At
the link below you can practise finding the value of a digit in a number.
Choose
a different colour of text and then, type in the missing numbers (deleting the
question marks and putting the next number in instead. Do you notice a pattern? Are the numbers
going up or down? How much are the numbers changing by each time?
Type
a sentence about what you notice underneath each line.
45
400, 45 500, 45 600 45 700
45 800 45 900
The numbers are going up by 100.
765
000, 760 000 755 000, 750 000? 745 000
740 000 735 000
The numbers are going down by 5000.
512
624, 522 624, 532 624,
542 624, 552 624, 562
624
The numbers are going up
by 10 000.
7
500 000, 7 000 000, 6 500 000,
6 000 000, 5 500
000, 5 000 000
The numbers are going down by 100 000
What
is one more and one less than:
700
001, 700 002 700 000 700 000, 700 001 699 999 799 999, 800 000 799 998 750 000 750 001 749 999
La
Liga football league, in Spain, had
approximately 11 400 000 attendees in their 2010-2011 season.
What
is a million more than this number? 12 400 000
What
is a million less than this number? 10 400 000
What
is the number one more than this number? 11 400 001
What
is the number one less? 11 399 999
What else could you
do?
Creative
task
Look
up world population on the app Qwiki.
Make up a simple news item on these statistics using the app, Talking
News.
Links
to games you can play on your iPad
http://www.funbrain.com/tens/index.html
