Messy Maths

We have been busy learning about symmetry in Maths and as our topic this half term is about India, we decided to look at Rangoli patterns.

These are bright colourful symmetrical patterns used to decorate doorsteps during the festival of Divali.

First we looked at some examples of Indian Rangoli and then we designed our own. This wasn't as easy as we thought it would be!

You might be wondering what the messy part was, well .....

Mrs ketley made us enlarge our patterns by drawing them on the playground in chalk. We then used a mixture of flour, water and food colouring and painted them.

We had to race to get them finished by playtime and then had to keep guard to make sure nobody walked on them .

We hope these patterns will last a little while so we can show our parents this week.

Have a look and tell us what you think.