Grade four pupils learnt maths is more than just getting out a calculator and tapping away on Monday.
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Damascus College hosted Emmaus, St Alipius and St Francis Xavier primary schools for a maths games day for literary and numeracy week, in which they made maps, 3D shapes and competed in multiplication bingo.
Emmaus grade four Timothy Mani, asked if it made numbers more interesting, was unequivocal.
“Yes, definitely,” he said.
Damascus leader of school development Corrina Dichiera said their aim was to get kids working together and using a range of maths.
“They’re working together on these problems and moving the work from the classroom,” she said.
It also provides educational opportunities not usually available for Ballarat primary schools.
“A lot of the Melbourne schools get to go to maths games days...so we decided to put on a maths games day in Ballarat,” Ms Dichiera said.
“It’s also for community-building. It gets all of the grade four kids (from the parish) together.”
