Today’s Maths Task: To read the temperature on a thermometer.
Good morning, Year 5
As you and your parents now have access to Maths No Problem, I will be setting daily worksheets for you to complete at home. They may be worksheets that you may have already attempted in class but that’s okay! It’s important that you revise and practise your skills. More information about how to log in to Maths No Problem can be found here.
Today you will be practising and revising your skill of reading temperatures on a thermometer.
A thermometer is an instrument used to measure temperature (how hot or cold a thing is), usually in the Celsius or Fahrenheit scale. In the UK we use Celsius.
Please watch this BBC Bitesize video demonstrating how to measure using a thermometer.
Check out this interactive maths thermometer!
Here is an example of how to complete a number line bridging through zero from negative into positive temperatures. Don’t forget: negative numbers are used to measure temperature increase as they get colder and are represented with a minus symbol preceding them. Notice how the question below has been answered by reading the temperature gauges to the nearest degree and finding the difference between two water levels.
Today’s task: Maths No Problem Workbook 5B , Chapter 11, Worksheet 14: Telling the Temperature Workbook pages: 125-126
After you have completed this, try the Mind Workout on the page after this (page 127) to revise the Measurement lessons we did in class just before school closed.
You do not need to print these out – you can simply using your yellow books to show your working out and write your answers. You or your parents can then mark it as you now have access to the answers 🙂
Therefore you will not be required to write your answer in the blog comments section as before. Please do comment if you need help or have any questions about the task. Also, please read each other’s comments and help each other out if you can! It is important we stay in touch and talk to each other about maths using mathematical language just like we did in the classroom 🙂
If you finish this activity and would like to learn more maths, please head over to our Home Learning page and scroll down to ‘Maths’ to find more websites you can enjoy.
Good luck!
Mrs Avdiu & Ms Robertson
Thank you for that explanation?☺️
I hope you are all well
You’re welcome 🙂
Hello Mrs Avdiu and Ms Robertson. I have finished my Maths and I was okay with it. I checked the answers with my parents. I hope you are all doing well!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing Lavinia
Hi everyone. The MNP log ins were emailed to your parents but if you are having trouble finding this email, please contact the office: office@stvincentsprimary.org.uk
Thanks!
Hello Everyone!
I hope you are all well ?
For The Math No Problem Pages
WorkBook 5B, Chapter 11, Worksheet, pages 125-126 Telling the Temperature.
1) (a)-4 and 5
(b)-10, -6 , -3, -1
2) 8 degrees C and -5 degrees C
(3)
(a)For 5 am I got -7 and for 11am I got 5 so if you calculate those temperatures increasing it would give you 12 degrees C
(b) For 5pm I got -3 and for 11am I got -9 so if you calculate those temperatures decreasing you would get 6 degrees C.
(4)
(a) -4
(b)-20
(c)13
(d)-9
Those are all the answers that I got I hope you all have a fantastic day !! ????
On the mind workout (page 127) I got 263. I struggled a bit at the start but then my sister explained it to me and I eventually understood!
On (page 126) Q.3 A, I got both of them wrong because I couldn’t read the lines as they were too small…
On Q4 A,I got all of these correct! 🙂
On (page 126) Q.3 I couldn’t really see the lines and numbers so I made a guess but I got it wrong…
My sister marked my work.
I hope you all have a nice day!
Hi Kayla, thank you for sharing. Sorry I had to edit your post and remove the answers because other children may not have attempted it yet:) I’m so sorry that you got some wrong because the images were too small- that’s very strange! I have checked with Miss Gorick, our Maths Coordinator, and she also thinks it’s a very odd thing to happen. Hmm…
Perhaps you could try again tomorrow and let me know?
Your sister sounds like a great big sister 🙂
Okay I will let you know.