Reasoning with Roman Numerals in Year 5

 Reasoning with Roman Numerals in Year 5 

This week Year 5 had wrestled with roman numerals as part of their place value topic in Maths. 

We had recapped from Year 4 and progressed with learning our roman numerals to 1,000. 

We had discovered a mnemonic way to remember the roman numerals, this was… 

I 

Value 

Xylophones 

Like 

Cows 

Do
Milk. 

We even timed ourselves to see how long it took us to order roman numerals. 

“So each one is a mini calculation” - Danny, Redwood 

“If you put the smaller number to the left, it means you have to take it away” - Jaymee, Willow

"I really understand why they use so many letters now." Charlie, Maple