My teacher loves teaching maths. She is really enthusiastic and she comes up with creative ways for us to learn and enjoy it. I know this because she spends a lot of time planning and getting things ready. The maths games we are learning have a variety of ways they can be solved and they keep us thinking.

We do warm ups and this could be having a number and you need to add on or take off different values of other numbers. Sometimes there is a rule using multiplication or division or using powers. We’ve even used Roman numerals. The warm ups are helpful because I am revisiting things I am not sure about. The warm ups refresh our brains with maths and they review what we have learnt and they can even get us ready for what we are going to do.

If people aren't confident other students help them out in class. They are paying attention then and this means they are learning. A lot of my classmates prefer to work in buddies and groups and this supports them.

I enjoy the games that we do. After our hard learning we play a game that we have been taught and this relaxes and calms our brains. We use lots of dice and often you need to set a target and work towards this using any of the 4 operations.

One of my favourites is a board game and you need to get to the number 100 but you need to work with prime numbers along the way. There is a lot of hard thinking along the way and it challenges me.

Our teacher says she likes learning alongside us. Quite often she doesn’t know the answer and she can learn from watching us. She enjoys seeing us making connections and building on what we know because then we feel successful.