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Showing posts with label maths. Show all posts
Showing posts with label maths. Show all posts

Monday, 2 December 2019

Tessellations


This week for maths we have been learning about tessellations. Tessellations is when a flat surface, like a piece of paper, is covered with repeating geometric shapes. For this task we were tessellating shapes but we were allowed to only use one shape to tessellate. This challenge was hard because there must be no gaps in between the shapes. Gaps were only allowed on the outside. I choose second to last shape which was the L looking one. I found this also fun because we got to make the shape we choose any colour at all. 


Tuesday, 19 November 2019

Transformation



This week for maths we have been learning about Transformation. Transformation means when you change something. This DLO shows all the different transformation you can do with shapes such as Reflection ( a mirror image ), Rotation ( turning something around ), Enlargement ( making something small bigger ) and Translation ( moving a object a certain distance ). Using the shapes tools I have created a basket. The challenging part was thinking of what shapes I could use to create the basket.

Thursday, 7 November 2019

Financial Literacy



This week for maths we have been learning about financial literacy. Our task for today was to play a game that revolves around a market day. We had 2 dices, one had numbers up to 6 and the other one had letters JB ( Juggling balls ) HS ( Hack sacks ) and BB ( Bungy Balls ). The purpose of this game was to helps us make a profit. Profit is the money you have earned.  My outcome was -$13 including the money I lost and paying for the stall.

Friday, 1 November 2019

Owning a dog


This week for maths we having been finding out life time cost for our pet dog. In my group were Mele, Avalon and Angela. The breed dog we choose was Border Collie. The life time cost for our dog was $65,839.60. We brought a leash, Bowl, Bed and a Lead for our dog called Coco Murphy Winston. We also had to buy the registration papers which were $70.00 per year,grooming and food. I found out that Queen Victoria loved Border Collies.

Friday, 25 October 2019

Budgeting Challenge - Maths

This week for maths we were given a challenge to complete together as a group. We were given a budget of $200 to do a weekly grocery shop for our maths group. We used an abundance of money to provide our group with enough healthy food for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks for one week. The challenging part was trying to decide what dinner was going to be, because most of us thought of different ideas, but at the end we chose which one was the best and cheapest.

Tuesday, 24 September 2019

Rugby World Cup Problem Solving


Since the Rugby World Cup is being held this year in Japan, LS2 have been completing a number of activities based on the Rugby World Cup. Today we worked out the measurements of a Rugby Pitch. Mele, Angela and I worked collaboratively together to work out the maths questions. The strategy that we used the most was the Place Value columns, because it helped us  through everything, especially when using the long multiplication strategy.Above shows a DLO of our favourite world problem/strategy. Feel free to comment down below your answers. 


Question: 
A rugby pitch has an area of 5400m2. What could the dimension of the filed be?

Monday, 23 September 2019

2019 Rugby World Cup Stadium Capacity



This week our activities are based around the Rugby World Cup. So for this DLO I worked collaboratively with Mele and Sakina and we worked out maths problems about the stadiums in Japan. We used different strategies such as division, times tables and fractions. We have created a DLO that shows one of the maths problem we solved. We choose to do question 3 which was " Tokyo Stadium is only 3/4  filled. How many people attended the match ". We used division and times tables to solve this problem. Check the DLO to see how we solved this equation.

Thursday, 4 July 2019

Times Tables Game




This week LS2 have been working hard towards creating a maths game. It was like Learn, Create and Share. The learn part means the maths we have learnt so far for example long multiplication or place value. The create part is when we get to create our maths game and get creative with it. Finally share where we get to show other people and get there feedback about our game. My maths game is about solving your times tables and once you've finished playing the times tables you have a opinion to do long multiplication strategys or not, I've decided to use Maori as my language. Using a gif maker site I have created a little monster so if you get the answer wrong you can press on the help box that will take you to a video about about to solve your times table but if you get the answer right you will be able to get to the next question. I used dark colours and created visible writing font and colour. After creating my game I asked a friend to test out my game and give me some feedback. The feedback I got was to make my outline of each text box transparent so it could blend in with my blue and purple background.

Wednesday, 19 June 2019

Inference in Maths


This week in maths we are learning to inference. Inference means to read the text and skim and scam for the hints that tell you what is happening. I worked collaboratively with Ellanora to create a DLO that tells other peolpe Inference in maths. We have put in a example of how to infere when you are asked a maths question. Our question talks about rows in a chocolate bar.

Thursday, 13 June 2019

Strengthening connections to maths language


LS2 has been strengthening their connections to the maths language to help understand what written maths questions are asking us. At the beginning of our maths session, we shared the different words we use to say 'hello' and thought about how this could be confusing for people who are learning to speak English. During our maths session, Mrs Anderson asked us what we thought the meaning of a plane is. Everyone had thought it was the transportation type, but in the maths context it was a flat surface. We need to know the what words mean in the maths context to help us understand the questions that we are asked. To complete this activity my group and I dragged each word to their maths box. We used the explore tool to help us define the meaning of a word. 

Monday, 20 May 2019

Tamaki College Visit




Today the Year 8 students has got a chance today to have a experience at college. After our sessions at tech all of the year 8 students stayed back. We all went to different orientation. Our first class was Maths. I really enjoyed this task because I learnt something new. We were learning about Coordinates how how to use them. We all each got a grid of paper and some coordinates then started following what the coordinates were. At the end of our drawing our results were a alien. Our next rotation was science. We done different expericence using Dried Ice. One of my favourite challenges was how we had dried ice and water in a tube and the tube went flying up in the air. A big thank you to the teachers and to Tamaki College for giving us this oppotunity for the Year 8 students to have a a experience of what type of learning the year 9 students for at college.

Tuesday, 7 May 2019

Place Value Partitioning



This DLO shows how I used the strategy of place value partitioning to solve addition questions. During our maths lesson I practised using this strategy with number and word questions. When I was answering the word questions I had to look for the maths so that I knew what numbers to work with. My screencastify shows the strategy I used. The more I used this strategy the easier it got. 

Thursday, 21 March 2019

Blog Post Analysis


This week LS2 have been creating their blog post goals for 2019. I have created a graph showing how many blog posts I have posted since I started blogging. I started at 2015. I think I did really well when started using my chromebook. I have done a good amount of posts because we would post things like Xtra maths and more. I was really focused.  My goal for this year is to try and post 300 this year. To achieve this goal I think I should post 5 posts a week. The year I had the most blog posts was 2017. The reason why is because participated in the Summer Learning Journey. 

Wednesday, 6 March 2019

Maths Problem


Today I have solved another maths problem. This problem was about money. To solve it since the book said that everyday Tom would spend $2  and everyday Tia would get $2.50 I just keep subtracting 2 from Tom and adding to Tia $2.50 untill Tia would have more than Tom. Overall it took five days for Tia to get more money that Tom.

Thursday, 14 February 2019

E-ako - Additive Thinking


Today I have finished additive thinking on E-ako. E-ako is a mahs site that helps you fgure out some maths questions. It really helsp a lot. There is different types of problems to sort out like timestables, additition and more.

Wednesday, 13 February 2019

E-Ako - Problem Solving & Additive Thinking


Today I have been on e-ako doing some problem solving. This problem solving includes frogs. I get to move the frogs around so that the green frogs are on the right and the red frogs are one the left. Throughout the way there is more frogs and I have to guess how many moves would there be for example if it only took 3 green frogs and 4 red frogs to get moved 15 times how many would there be if there were one more added to the green frogs. To get some help we click on tutorial and we learn how to solve it. 

Friday, 21 December 2018

Summer Learning Journey - My Maths Problem



Today for this activity I solved a maths problem that is about the Colosso Squid. This squd is known to be the most heaviest squid possible. Here in NZ we have a full size Colsosso Squid at the Te Pappa Muesuem in Wellington and the want to move it agian. This squid is about 500 kg. I need to see how much kids and adults it would need to move it. Adults can carry 25 kg of the squid and kids can lift 15 kg of the squid. I think the answer to this is that 13 adults and 12 kids are needed to life this squid because I used the easiest way and just added 25 + 15 over and over again like this:

25 + 15 + 25 + 15 + 25 + 15 + 25 + 15 + 25 + 15 + 25 + 15 + 25 + 15 + 25 + 15 + 25 + 15 + 25 + 15 + 25 + 15 + 25 + 15 + 25 = 505

Rachel said that their is a various amount of answers and my answer was 505. I got that answer because of the 5 at the end of 25.

Tuesday, 13 November 2018

Book Measuring


TOday I have created a DLO with Miki working out some maths. We have measured out the Withd, Length and Height of each book. We used our library books to finish this activity. The books we used were called 400 minutes dange, Lemony Snicket and Zeke Meeks.

Wednesday, 24 October 2018

Basic Fact Boxes


This week I have created my Basic Facts sheet. This time I have completed my Subtractions up to 100. It was a bit tricky subtracting big numbers but I got through it. This basic facts sheet helps me have a refresh of my addition and subtractions. In the sheet altogether there is 10 boxes.

Friday, 19 October 2018

Basic Facts


This week for maths I have done one of Mr Wongs basic maths challenge. I went up to 100 this time. It was a bit hard because the school holidays have just finished. When I was going through the questions I got a bit stuck but I kept challenging myself to keep going. This Basic facts challenge is a really good way to help you get better at your addition and subtraction.