Olympic Challenge #3

 LI: to use the most efficient strategy to find the answers.

Today, we were looking at how we could solve another Olympic word problem. First, we gather the needed information. There are 250 squares in a badminton racket. With this piece of information we move to the next step and find out how many right angles in one square. Looking at a square, we see that there are 4 right angles per square. This means that the number problem is 250 x 4. When we multiply 250 four times, it gives us an answer of 1000. Therefore the answer to the question "How many right angles are on an entire badminton racket?"  is 1000.

Olympic Math Challenges #2

 LI: To fidn the most efficient strategy 

 This week for maths, our learning was based on the Olympics. Our first challenge was about Michael Phelps. This task was about Nastia Liukin. The question sayed The Olympic sport of gymnastics is judged with a point system. Nastia Liukin, an uneven bar champion scored a disappointing 16.725 in Bejing putting her in second place. Her opponent beat her by 0.001 of a point. The Bronze medal winner's score was a 14.975.What was the Gold medal winners score? By how much did Nastia score over the Bronze medalist? We had to find out how much of a point nastia opponent score was, and we also had to find out how much did Nastia score over the bronze medalist. I found this task intersting becase we learn new way of trying to solve different math equations.

Super Finger competition

 LI: To recall our time tables quickly

Today for maths we have recalled our multiplication knowledge by playing a game called Super Fingers. This is a game to see how well and how fast you can answer questions, by using dice.

The instructions of this game is that we need to write a phrase on a white board or piece of paper. Then you will need to roll 2 dice which we will multiply by, and the first person to call out the answer will take one of the letters out. The first person to have all of the letters rubbed out will win the game

The process we did it in was similar to a netball game, draw, quarter finals, semi finals, and lastly finals. To run this competition smoothly we created a bracket which showed who will versus who. Our bracket was now even so later in the game we did a wild card who were Vayan and Micah.

In pairs we challenged each other to see who was faster at answering the questions. The winner would go against the winner from another person. Whoever wins goes up against another winner, and it will keep going until there are two people left, which would be the finals.

The two people facing each other in the finals were Afatia and Chris. I enjoyed this game very much becasue I got to learn my time tables faster.

 

Olympic Math Challenges #1

 LI: to find the most effiecient strategy.

This week for maths, our learning was based on the Olympics. Our first challenge was about Michael Phelps. This task was about Nastia Liukin. The question sayed The Olympic sport of gymnastics is judged with a point system. Nastia Liukin, an uneven bar champion scored a disappointing 16.725 in Bejing putting her in second place. Her opponent beat her by 0.001 of a point. The Bronze medal winner's score was a 14.975.What was the Gold medal winners score? By how much did Nastia score over the Bronze medalist? We had to find out how much of a point nastia opponent score was, and we also had to find out how much did Nastia score over the bronze medalist. I found this task intersting becase we learn new way of trying to solve different math equations.

Space Jam

 LI: To find the most efficient strategy to answer the question.

We were tasked to solve a maths group problem and create a DLO.     Problem:    You are in charge of organising opening night of the movie. Use the information below to help you organise the theatre.

Each of the 3 theatres can seat 150 people. Kids are $12.50 and adults are $15. Kids must come with an adult. 

Find one way to fill the theatres and say how much would be earned. 

    Solution:   

 75 x 12.50 = 937.50

75 x 15 =  1125

1125 + 937.50 = 2062.50

2062.50 x 3 = 6187.50

2062.50

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2062.50 x 3  = 6187.50

2062.50

2062.50

4125.50 + 2062.50 = 6187.50

Maths Challenge / Distance Learning

 LI:to understand the place values of tenth, one, hundred ect.

This week for our maths task we was challenged at writing down the largest six digit to the lowest six digit number. In this challenge the task at hand was figuring out the six digit number based on the clues given through the DLO. In between them were questions such as: Write down the largest six digit number with a two in the tenths place. I found this challenge interesting as I got to think harder about the number I was going to write down. 

LS2's Favourite Colours

 LI: to plan and carry out a statistical investigation.

We went around our class, LS2 we went around finding data about LS2’s favourite colour. Our prediction was that we thought purple was going to be the most popular colour following by blue. Then We found out that more people liked blue following by purple. I picked the colour purple and my partner did too. We notice that more people like blue than other colours, we went around the classroom and found out that there were 5 people that liked the colour blue. Our Next we found out that purple had 3 people the liked the colour, green also had the same amount as purple. We noticed that 1 person liked black and pink. Something I found interesting is how much people liked the same colours.

Probibility tree

 LI: to create a probability tree to explain your thinking.

Probability is the chance that something is most likely to happen. LS2 has been studying Probability for two weeks. Sulia and I have been working together on this DLO to explain how Probabilities work. In small groups, part of LS2 had a maths session with Mrs. Anderson talking about Probabilities. One of the maths problems that occured through our session can be seen in this DLO. We used Probability tree to solve these problems. Here are the results. 

Maths Clhallenges

 LI: to learn about mass and weight.

This week we were put into groups for Maths. In these groups we made up names that  represent maths or includes maths names, our name that we chose for our group was. The multiplying 7’s because we had seven people in our group and we were supposed to multiply our questions we were given. In the multiplying 7’s were Victoria our leader Giovannie, Makaili, Afa, Karlos  and Lily, we put all of our opinions together to come with different solutions to solve our challenges and we would have to ask questions if we didn't understand the question or ask for help because no one should have sat in silence because we are a team and we are all supposed participate so we all can have friendship even though we haven't worked together but we did make a big difference and we worked as a good team whether we liked  working together or not.

Something I found interesting was the amount of animals that weigh the same as an elephant, because we found six animals that weigh the same as an elephant altogether.

Lowest Common Multiple

 LI: to find the Lowest Common Multiple.

For maths this week we were learning about the LCM (Lowest, Common, Multiple). The lowest common multiple is when the 2 numbers have the same multiple, that is the lowest. For an example 8 and 6, we know that 8 x 3 and 6 x 4 equals 24 and nothing is lower than 24. To find the lowest common multiple, the easiest way to do so, is to multiply both numbers. If we were to find the lowest common multiple of 4 and 5. We multiply both numbers, which makes 20. There are no lower common multiples than 20. This is a strategy we all found out, from doing the first 3 questions.

Making Connections To Problem Solving

LI: to explore problem solving.

We made an ancient puzzle called the tangram. Tha tangram is an ancient Chinese puzzle to cure boredom. We made this puzzle because the internet connection was lost. We use problem solving to find this activity. We use problem solving everyday and every time, it is used in sports and our school subjects. For this activity we listened and followed simple instruction to create the tangram. We started off the activity with a A4 paper and a pear of scissors . We had a square shaped paper and cut it a couple of triangles and a little square. Next we tried to make it back in the square we started off with, it was kind of tricky. Then we tried to make  some animals out of the shapes we had. The most difficult animal to make was a goat. I found this activity really fun and helpful.

Negative Numbers / Maths

LI: To add and subtract positive and negative numbers

We were learning about negative numbers. Negative number is number less than 0. When you add them you have to go up towards the 0. For eg: -2 -1 0 1 2. 

Blog Post Analysis

LI: to analyse our blog post data to help us set blogging goals.

I used the statistical information on my blog to help me set goals for 2020. Before I can publish a blog post I need to finish the task. I worked the average number of posts I made for each month and used this data to set a realistic and achievable blogging goal.

Hydra Maths Challenge

LI:to To understand the exponent of a number says how many times to use the number in a multiplication

This is our maths DLO, I worked  together with Matthew. We were trying to solve a question about a hydra, a hydra is a snake but when you cut off the head two more grow on. Next a hero tried cutting off the of the snake everyday. Our answer for the third day of him cutting the snakes head was 8. We kept multiplying it by two. For the last question we got 1024 for ten days.

Maths Problem

LI: to find the best way to solve a maths question.
We are trying to find out the best way to solve a maths question. For this task we had to get into partners. We got four questions, the question were about fishing. The main information was that they caught three fishes every hour and threw 1 fish away. We multiplied the hour by the fish then subtracted one.

Maths

LI: to use the best way in maths.

For maths we had three questions, all these questions are about fishing. The first answer was 75 kg and the second was 37.5 lastly the answer was 9.5. We added the main info so people can know what we did.

Learning something new

LI: Learning a new strategy

I learnt a new skill for my maths, for maths we did decimal division. I got help from Azatulah, we used basic facts and skip counting. We used the question 7 divided by 5, with the help of Azatulah I got the answer, 1.4.

Thinking Challenge

This week for maths we started on working on our team challenge. The question for this was basically 91 x 4, we had to try and figure out the mos efficient strategy to work out the equation. Then we had to share our ideas to the group to see who had to easiest way to solve the question that we were given.

Maths Question

L.I to cooperative as a team to achieve a something.

In our thinking groups, we were asked as a team to cooperate to finish a task. The task that was given to us was a list with number facts of the ASB Marathon. We had to create 5 different questions using those facts. here is what we have come up with.

Ordering numbers

Today in Maths we worked in our thinking teams to find the answer to two maths maths questions. In this photos you will see my group, The Wizardly- Addition, working out the number value of our group name. To do this we used addition stratigies and our place value knowledge. 

In the second activity we worked as a group to put the population numbers order. To do this we used our place value knowledge.