{"id":6247,"date":"2016-11-29T09:52:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T09:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/?p=6247"},"modified":"2016-11-29T09:58:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T09:58:44","slug":"how-many-hedgehogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/?p=6247","title":{"rendered":"How many hedgehogs???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently asked each child in school to make half a hundred hedgehogs using salt dough and to bring them in for maths week.<\/p>\n<p>Possible questions to consider\u00a0whilst making the hedgehogs were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How many hedgehogs is &#8216;half a hundred&#8217;?<\/li>\n<li>How could you arrange your hedgehogs to make them easy to count?<\/li>\n<li>If you keep splitting your ball of dough in half, you will have enough to make 2 huge hedgehogs or 4 very large hedgehogs or 8 big hedgehogs or &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>How many hedgehogs will the children in your class make?<\/li>\n<li>How many hedgehogs will all the children in the school make?<\/li>\n<li>What would 100 hedgehogs look like?<\/li>\n<li>What would 1000 hedgehogs look like?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We can now answer &#8220;What would over 10,000 hedgehogs look like?&#8221; as the response we had was amazing (we have been told that the local Aldi ran out of plain flour over the weekend!)<\/p>\n<p>Here is a powerpoint about how the children set about counting them:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/qHKIxRVN53cweB\" width=\"595\" height=\"485\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">; <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently asked each child in school to make half a hundred hedgehogs using salt dough and to bring them in for maths week. Possible questions to consider\u00a0whilst making the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Hedgehog-Cropped-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6247"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6255,"href":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions\/6255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}