Miss Breen's Brilliant Bunch of Mathematicians

Hello, I have been spending 2016 looking after my baby daughter, so my blog is currently inactive. I hope to continue to update in the near...

Here is your Friday challenge: A bag contains only red, yellow and blue lollies. The probability of picking a red lolly is 0.25 and the...

My new groups have been doing a lot of work on fractions in particular part to whole fractions as this is usually where there struggle.  ...

Last term I had to say farewell to most of the students that I worked with in term 1 and 2. Now I have 4 new groups of year 4 to 8 students...

Here are your challenges for today: Junior Problem: Mr Cressey has lots of rubbish bins to clean. On Monday he cleans four bins. On Tu...

Here are your challenges for today: Junior Problem: When Miss Breen teaches in Room 14 she promises to give stickers to the student...

Here are your challenges for Wednesday: Junior Problem: Sarah began earning pocket money by doing chores at home everyday. She was g...

Here are your challenges for Tuesday: Junior Problem Miss Breen has baked chocolate chip cookies for her family.  Her son sneakily...

Maths Problems for 2015 Maths Week JUNIOR PROBLEM - Monday A group of bees are out collecting nectar to make honey. 6 of ...

The other day I introduced some of my students to the ipad app 'ShowMe' which is an interactive whiteboard. As we have been focusin...