Our popular Year 5 Maths outreach is back - and we’d love to welcome your school!
We’ve Got Problems! is a lively, inclusive day of problem-solving designed to stretch and inspire Year 5 pupils. Pupils work in teams of four through accessible puzzles and challenges that encourage creative thinking, teamwork and resilience - helping them apply new learning in fun, practical ways.
How it works
Teams: four Year 5 pupils per team.
Accompanying adult: Each team must be accompanied by a member of school staff (this does not have to be a teacher). Your staff member will remain on site for safeguarding but will not be responsible for day-to-day supervision — all activities are led by Hymers College staff. Wi-Fi will be available so accompanying staff may bring other work.
Bring both subjects
Running alongside the maths day is our Year 5 English outreach, We’ve Got Issues!. Schools are welcome to enter teams for one event or both, depending on interest.
Event details
Dates: Wednesday 17 June, Thursday 18 June, Friday 19 June
Time: 9:40am - 2:40pm
Venue: Hymers College
Cost: Free - lunch provided for all pupils and accompanying staff
Why join?
Ignite pupils’ curiosity and confidence in maths
Build teamwork, communication and problem-solving skills
Book now
Places are limited - to reserve your team(s) or find out more, please click the ‘book now’ button below.
We look forward to welcoming your Year 5s for a brilliant day of challenges, collaboration and discovery!
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9:40am: Arrival
9:50am: Introduction to the day
10am: Activity 1 – Kono
11am: Activity 2 – Lasers and Cannons
12pm: Buffet lunch (provided)
12:30pm: Activity 3 – Shady Shapes
1:30pm: Activity 4 – Modular Machines
2:30pm: Summary and presentation
2:40pm: Depart
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A strategy game for two players. Your pupils will get the opportunity to play the game and develop the best strategies to win the game. A tournament will then be played where all schools will play each other in a round-robin format.
This activity allows the pupils to develop their skills in understanding rules and instructions, spatial awareness and pattern spotting.
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The pupils will learn about the equation of a straight line (lasers) and the motion of a projectile (cannons). These topics are covered on GCSE and A Level specifications, but are delivered in an accessible way to suit Year 5s. This leads into an interactive activity where the pupils control the lasers and cannons to hit the targets to score points.
The activity demonstrates to the pupils how changing two parameters can affect the outcomes of events in different ways. It utilises a trial and improvement approach to solving problems in a challenging and interactive way.
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This activity uses knowledge that the pupils will already have. The main focus of this activity is teamwork. The pupils will work together to solve an extended task involving fractions, decimals, percentages, ratio and area.
The pupils will consolidate their understanding of proportion and the equivalence of fractions, decimals and percentages. The main learning will be about cooperation and communication: the ability to follow instructions is a must.
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‘What does this number machine do?’ is the question raised in this activity.
The pupils will learn about modulo arithmetic, a topic not covered until university degree level courses. However, modulo arithmetic is related to the quotient and remainder when a whole number is divided by another whole number and is accessible to pupils who can divide 25 by 8 and get 3 remainder 1.
Once the topic has been introduced, the pupils will complete an interactive task where they are faced with several number machines and they must test them out to find out what operations they perform.
Pupils will consolidate their mental arithmetic skills whilst developing their interest in mathematics and gain their first insight into number theory!
