Measurement Activity

Yesterday we started on our silent measurement activity. For this activity, we had to make groups then prototype paper plane designs individually, either getting the designs that we use from our memory or online (YouTube, Paper plane websites, etc), then test how far they can fly by throwing them from different areas such as the senior playground, the LS2 balcony, or the field, then get the good ideas from each prototype and eventually make a super plane as a group that will fly further than the other groups super planes. We have already made and tested our prototypes, and today we are moving on to the combining part of our designs, and also making our groups super plane. The hardest part for this activity is that all of our instructions were given silently, with us looking at a presentation.

Tree frog Adventures

Today I played a maths game called Tree Frog Adventures. It had all sorts of math, from basic addition to decimal and fraction conversion. It is a very good game for practising your maths.

Rounding Money

This is my DLO on rounding money. We learnt to round to the nearest 10c and the nearest $1.

HCF

Highest Common Factor

Sheet 9

Find the highest common factor of these numbers:

1. 30, 12 - 6
2. 3, 2 -1
3. 10, 60 - 10
4. 2, 3 - 1
5. 15, 20 - 5
6. 6, 24 - 6
7. 5, 30 - 5
8. 20, 3 - 1
9. 8,2 - 2
10. 3, 60 - 3

This is my DLO on Highest Common Factors. To figure these out, we had to compare the two numbers and find out which numbers they could be divided by and see which numbers were the same.

Problem Solving DLO

This is my DLO of the problem: Mr Murrin is 160cm tall and his brother Tom is 7/8 as tall as him. How tall is Tom? This was one of the three problems Ms K gave us to solve

Kahn academy Multiplying and dividing negative numbers

Today I mastered Multiplying and dividing negative numbers. This was challenging as I didn't know whether the answer would be a positive or a negative number, I wondered the answer would be either 7 or -7 and in the end went for -7 and was correct!

Kahn academy Subtract fractions with common denominators mastery

Today I mastered subtracting fractions with common denominators and adding fractions with common denominators and on Kahn academy. This was easy because since all of the denominators were the same it was just like adding and subtracting. Next time I will do a harder subject.

Khan Academy Basic Maths

I have started to go onto Khan academy again and today I completed Early math. So far I have 164,716 points and 12 challenge badges. I will try to go onto Khan academy 15 minutes every day and post what I have achieved.

Maths problem solving

Today Shannon and I worked on this maths problem: A computer processes information in nanoseconds. A nanosecond is one billionth of a second. Write this number as a decimal.
Answer: 0.000000001

PBS Flag Votes data comparison

This is my google drawing showing the two graphs I made regarding the votes that PBS made on whether we should or shouldn't change the flag. The final vote tally shows that PBS went with the nation and has decided to keep the current flag. I am happy with what PBS and NZ voted for as I wanted to keep the current flag as well. The only down for me is that 27 million dollars was wasted when it could have been used for something more important such as schools and educations. Also, it would have cost even more to change everything with the current flag and it would have disrespected the people who died under it.

Maths

This is a rounding decimals game that we played as part of Ms Kirkpatrick's tasks. As well as knowing what the decimals rounded up to, we had to be accurate in our shooting.

Maths Show me

This is the show me that Shannon and I made on a maths problem using the LS2 Ipad.

LS2's Favourite Book Graph

This is Harry's and my graph on LS2's favourite book graph. The question we asked was: What is your favourite type of book? The favourite is comics with 13 and the least favourite is biography with 1. In this we only asked 39 of 52 people in LS2 what their favourite book type was, so maybe if we had had enough time we would see different results than these ones.

Understanding Multiplication DLO

This is my DLO with different ways of writing 8 x 12. I did it by using: T-chart, Groups of, Repeated addition, Array, Factor x Factor = Product and Skip counting.

Maths Problem

This is my maths problem for today. I solved it using my knowledge of fractions.
Here is a problem for you to solve:
There are 12 kids in detention. they are 1/24 of the school. 1/4 of the kids at school have no lunch. How many kids have no lunch? And there are 84 just-in-case lunch boxes for the kids with no lunch. How many lunch boxes will be left over after the kids get one each?

Maths Problem solving

For maths in problem solving we did a problem. Here is the problem and my solution.

Problem: You have gone to the store and bought a fox, a chicken and some corn. Now you are by the river. If you leave the corn with the chicken, the chicken will eat the corn. If you leave the chicken with the fox, the chicken's in big trouble. You have a boat but it can only take you and one other thing because if it has any more weight on board it will sink. How many trips in your boat can you make to get all three to the other side without the chicken eating the corn or the fox eating the chicken?

Solution: You take the chicken across first. This is trip 1. You come back with nothing. This is trip 2. You take the fox. This is trip 3. If you leave the chicken then it will get eaten so you take it back. This is trip 4. You take the corn across because otherwise the chicken will eat the corn. This is trip 5. You come back with nothing. This is trip 6. You take the chicken. This is trip 7. You have now taken everything!

I have done only one of the two ways of solving it. Comment on this if you figure out the other way.

Maths problem

This is Patrick's and my strategy on what was the difference between 376 and 223.

Maths 6 times tables test

This is my score on a test of times tables. We had to answer 10 questions in 1 minute. I am impressed at how fast I answered the questions and got a perfect score. I think that all I need to do now is to try and answer the questions even faster for the IKAN test at the end of the year.

Maths problem

This is the maths problem my teacher set for us. It is based on soldiers because ANZAC is the focus this term.

Making 100

This is my DLO on Making 100. We had to add all the numbers and use all 4 symbols to make 100.