Maths Badges – Games and Puzzles.

Hello fellow readers! For Maths we have been doing math’s badges. I chose games and Puzzles because it seemed like the easiest since this is my first time doing Math’s Badges. Something I have found hard about making this game is that I had to start from scratch so I had no idea how to do this but I managed. I enjoyed making the little drawings on the how to play the game.

Section A
Option 4.) Design a card game, which could be used by children to enhance their mathematical understandings. Trial your game with a group of students and seek and record their feedback. This could be done electronically.

I have done this on paper and I haven’t completed it fully but it is work on progress.

My game name is: Math’s operation card game.

In this pack, it includes the following:

  • A Dice with maths operations on its sides.
  • 200 cards in a pack from -100 to 100.
  • Instructions
    Ages up to 3+
    Up to 3+ people can play.

Rules/Instructions:
Shuffle the cards well. Roll the dice and draw two cards from the shuffled deck. Using that operation the dice landed on and the two numbers of cards, make a question and show it to the others. The first person who answers the question gets a point. Place the two cards into the discard pile. Repeat the process again but you don’t need to shuffle the cards again. If you run out of cards then you can shuffle the discard pile and put it into the deck.

ZMR Science: Paper Plane Challenge

AIM – Our aim is to find out which paper place design is the best.

HYPOTHESIS – I think that ‘The Sky King’ paper plane design is the best because of its aero dynamic shape and it is also really easy to make.

EQUIPMENT – You only need paper but if you would like, you can use colouring materials to design your paper plane.

METHOD –
1.) With your paper portrait, fold your paper in half with the long sides touching each other evenly.
2.) Unfold, then fold the 2 top corners to the middle so you have a house looking paper.
3.) After that you fold the top two folded corners to about 4/5 to the bottom leaving about 1.5 inches of space at the bottom of the paper.
4.) Fold the two top corners to the middle crease.
5.) After that, unfold the fold you just did and use that crease you made as a guide line and fold the corners to that crease.
6.) Once you have done that, keep that fold, and do that same thing as step 4.
7.) Then, you flip the paper to the back so the the folds are facing to the ground.
8.) Fold the pointy top part of the paper up.
9.) Unfold and fold the paper in half so the paper is parallel.
10.) Fold the tip of the paper plane to the side and unfold it so you make a crease.
11.) Fold the tip inwards of the paper so that the tip isn’t pointy but flat.
12.) Fold the top part of the flat tip to the bottom.
13.) Make the wings by doing a mountain fold.
14.) Unfold the fold
15.) Face the tip of the plane to the left side upright, at the bottom left corner of the paper fold it upwards just a bit over the  crease you made so that it will make a triangular shape.
16.) Fold the crease you made inwards just like what you did with step 11.)
17.) Fold back the wings, at the edge of the wings fold them up so they make a v shape.

Your done!

Maths – My Math Journal

Hello fellow readers! This is my first Maths blog for this year! For Maths, we have been learning about place value . We have been learning by a Maths Workbook and Textbook called Maths-No Problem! We had just finished chapter 1 so now we are doing a reflection. There were 3 last questions we are going to answer for the last chapter of this book.
Here it is:

Is it always appropriate to round numbers? Do you think it makes sense to round these numbers?

  • 142 children attending a tournament, rounded to the nearest 100. I don’t think it is appropriate to round this number in this situation because we are talking about people and we need to know the exact amount of people were brought so we can bring back the exact amount of people.
  • A population of 2,387,562 people, rounded to the nearest 1,000,000. I think it is appropriate to round it because every day people are dying and being born so the population is always changing so it is appropriate to just know the approximate of the population.
  • A salary of $34,321, rounded to the nearest 10,000.  I don’t think it is appropriate to round a salary because I’m sure that people don’t want their salaray rounded to a smaller number that it was before and I’m sure people don’t want to be paying a more amount than what the salary is.

I can…

Read and write number to 10 million. – ✅
Tell the place value of a digit in a number. – ✅
Compare and order numbers up to 10 million. – ✅
Round numbers to the nearest 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, 100,000, 1,000,000. – ✅

I have found this work pretty easy so far because I learnt all this when I was a yr 7 and in my last year of primary. I haven’t found any challenging work so far but maybe when we get farther into the workbook we will get more challenging work and maths I haven’t done before. I quite like this new way of learning maths because it is pretty simple and easy.

The Scientific Method – Science

Hello fellow readers! Today in science we were learning the scientific method. We learnt about the aim, hypothesis, method / experiment, results, conclusion, and discussion.

The aim is to find out what we want to learn about so we could have a questions.
The hypothesis is meaning to form a hypothesis about what we think is going to happen. We could research about this as well.
Then you have the method or experiment. We do a experiment to find out if our hypothesis is correct or incorrect.
After the results, you can turn it into a graph to make it easier to read.
Then you have the conclusion. This means you know about what you wanted to know.
Then you discuss about it why these things happen, you can also research about why this happens etc.

Maths – Classifying Triangles by their sides and angles. | Week 3

Hello Fellow Readers!

This week for math we have been focusing on triangles and angles!

We learnt the 4 types of triangles, which are:

  • Scalene triangle : Has no equal sides.
  • Isosceles triangle: Has 2 pairs of equal sides
  • Right triangle: Always has a right angle contained in the triangle.
  • Equilateral triangle: Has all equal sides.

We had to do work about Classifying triangles by their sides and angles. I worked with a buddy who was Prabhleen who is very smart with math. She helped me with my work and we worked together. Something I enjoyed doing and was easy was Classifying triangles by their sides, because it is really easy to see if it is a Scalene, Isosceles, Right and especially Equilateral. Something that was hard and challenging for me was classifying triangles by their angles. This is because triangles have three angles in total contained which means they can be acute and obtuse at the same time which confused and stumped me a lot! But of course, I finished my work. Here is my work:

The 7 types of taste: Science

Hello fellow readers!

This term for science we are learning about the different senses. This week we are learning about taste. We had to list different types of taste which were:

 

  • Sweet
  • Salty
  • Sour
  • Spicy
  • Savoury
  • Fatty
  • Bitter

In our class, the most popular taste was sweet at 10 points. The lowest was bitter which had 0 points.

Numeracy | Titan Math Activities.

Hello fellow readers! This week for math we learned about multiplying decimals by whole numbers. It was quite easy because all you had to do was normal multiplication but add a decimal point where you’re supposed to add it.  One question for me was quite challenging for me because I didn’t know where to add the decimal point. This was question was 0.041 x 15 = ? The answer was 0.615. I really enjoyed doing this work because it was really easy. Maybe next time I would like to have more fractions work cause I still have a lot of gaps in my knowledge about fractions. If you got to learn anything about math, what would it be?

Anway here is some of my work!

What we learnt in Dance

Hello fellow readers! This is the last week for term 3 and for term 3 we had dance! So, to end our dance sessions in term 3 we are making blogs about what we learnt.

We have learned:

  • Dance in musicals – Dance expresses joy better than anything. They might not know what i’m doing but they know I’m doing something -Bob Fosse’
  • Poetry in motion – Using verbs, learning moves
  • Dance around the world – Click me
  • Dancing about landscapes – Making your own dance about the landscape image you chose.

The one I had enjoyed the most was learning about dance in musicals because their expressions in the dance were really powerful and it was really interesting. The one that challenged me the most was Dancing about landscapes because we had to make our own dance and it had to represent the image of the landscape and I don’t know how to dance, but dance was really fun this term and I enjoyed dance with Mrs Clarke.

Dance Degree | Study Degrees in Dance | Edge Hill University

 

 

Sir Peter Tapsell – Blogpost

Hello fellow readers, for social studies this week we have been learning about succesful māori individuals. We had 6 individuals to choose from and me and my partner chose Sir Peter Wilfred Tapsell. We had to research about him on his life, his achievements and challenges he faced. I learned that he was the first māori to be speaker of the house and he was notable for that. Something I found challenging in this activity was finding out about his early life because there were many sites that didn’t include about what happened during his early life. Something that I enjoyed doing was adding pictures because for me that is the easiest job. 🙂

Here is the DLO: