Math

 LI: To find, explain and fix the error.

Our challenge today was to find, explain and fix the error in the examples given. I have chosen to share this example because the activity helped me think about the strategies I have learnt about. I worked with Te Raumati for this activity.

SUPER FINGERS Competition

 LI: To recall our timetable 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.

Afatia was the winner of the finals.

Olympic Math Challenge 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.

Olympic Math Challenge 1

 LI: To find the most efficient strategy when trying to solve a question.

This week for maths, our learning was based on the Olympics. Our first challenge was about Michael Phelps. The question was, on average, every swim stroke Michael Phelps takes gets him 2 meters down the pool. Michael competed in 8 separate events during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, It meant that we had to find out how many meters Michael swam for his  gold medals. In total Michael swam 1500m in all eight events. When it says that every stroke Michael takes he ends up to meters down the pool. If he swims two meters in one storke that means 1500 neededs to be divided by 2. The answer is 750, which means Michael Phelps did 750 storkes to get to the 1,500m range.

Finacial Capabilities

LI: To understand the budget is a plan for managing money 

This week for maths we have been focusing on our times tables. Using this learning we have done a financial capability challenge which will improve our multiplying skills, and solving it quicker. In this DLO we have picked one question to show our strategies when we are solving maths questions. I enjoyed this task because I got to get the answer more quicker when doing times tables. 

Maths - Exponents

 LI: To explore exponents

Our maths focus was to understand how to solve equations that contain or use exponents. Exponents are small numbers that take place next to numbers on the top right. For example 2³  is a number containing an exponent because there is a smaller number taking place on the top right of a larger number.An exponent number determines how many times the number is multiplied by itself, for example 2³ is equal to 2x2x2 because it is multiplying itself by three (which is the exponent number). 2x2x2 is 8, and we can solve this by knowing 2x2 is 4, and 4x2 is 8.

For our keeping clever task, we solved the exponents 5⁶, 2⁹, 6⁴, 93, 10⁴ and 7⁵. I solved these by multiplying 5x5x5x5x5x5=15,625, 2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2=512, 6x6x6x6=1,296, 9x9x9=729, 10x10x10x10=10,000 and 7x7x7x7x7-16,807. The strategies I used were repeated addition and long multiplication.The next part of our set maths task was to organize the exponents answers in chronological order from smallest to largest. The order is 512 (2⁹), 729 (93), 1296 (6⁴), 10000 (10⁴), 15925 (5⁶) and 16807 (7⁵). I created a DLO to display the strategy and learning that I used for this lesson.

I found this task very fun because I was able to practice multiplication.

Math Challenge

LI: To explain our strategy

 

This week in maths Hay lee, Lukah, RJ, Juel and I created a DLO about our challenge we did in Maths.Our maths challenges were based on our learning about weight.We had three challenges all together.We solved three separate word problems and chose one to make a DLO about. We explained our strategy on how we got the answer. Our problem was to figure out the combination of animals to match the weight of an elephant. Something I found interesting was learning more about weight and showing our strategy.

Math : Lowest Common Factor

 LI: To create a google draw and explain the LCM with a meaning and example.

The above google draw is a collaborative work of Afatia and me which showcases our learning on Lowest Common Multiple (LCM) under the topic of math. We first started by solving basic question and follow up worksheets to understand the topic step by step. Then we started to make this google draw. To explain the task in detail we have added the meaning, strategy, example and an image of the workout. I found this topic very interesting because it makes these type of questions a lot more easier. I really liked working with Afatia and would love to do more tasks like this. 

Math : Highest Common Factor

 LI: To create a google draw and explain the HCF with a meaning and example.

 

The above google draw is a collaborative work of Sakshi and me which showcases our learning on Highest Common Factor (HCF) under the topic of math. We first started by solving basic question and follow up worksheets to understand the topic step by step. Then we started to make this google draw. To explain the task in detail we have added the meaning, strategy, example and an image of the workout. I found this topic very interesting because we never knew about such a strategy and to solve these questions. I really liked working with Afatia and would love to do more tasks like this. 

Algebraic With Mr Fisi’iahii

LI: To learn and create algebraic equations.  

Today my group and I  learnt Algebraic equations with Mr Fisi’iahi. We started off by finding out the values of the animals. The animals we did were Piwaiwaka,Gecko,Kiwi,Tuatara and Pukeko. We summed up an answer then we  simplified the answers to make it easier to understand and explain what's happening. We created a DLO with our algebraic equations for Mr Fisiah . I really enjoyed working with my partner and my group to answer the questions we’re trying to solve.These tasks and questions help us understand and explain what Algebra is. Can you solve this equation.I enjoyed learning about algebra and creating equations.

Making Connection To Problem Solving

LI: To explore problem solving.

Today we were created our own little tangram puzzle.We created our tangram puzzles with a A4 paper and a pair of scissors, we had to listen carefully to the instructions so we didn't get it wrong. Tangrams are an ancient chineses puzzle that was used for people who were on boats and for people who could afford them.Tangrams were popular in America and England. When we were doing this activity we lost our internet connection.While we were doing this we were following instructions, collaborating, trying options, listening, asking questions, finding a solution and communicating.We used problem solving skills to make animals from our shapes.

Maths Challenge

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

This week our group practiced finding the answer to written maths questions. To do this we needed to first find the numbers we were working with. We decided the most efficient strategy was to use our times table knowledge. Being able to find how many groups of a number made this strategy efficient.

Using Exponents

LI: To learn how to use exponents.

This week we were learning about exponents. Exponents are useful because the example in our DLO shows that it is easier to write 3x3x3. Exponents tells us how many times we need to multiply a number. This DLO shows how we used our knowledge of exponents to collababraalty share our thinking. 

Tavola Maths Challenge

LI: To find the most efficient strategy for solve the answer.

This task was about how many meters it would take to make 26 Ta'ovalas. This task we had to find the most efficient strategy to sovle this problem.

Math DLO

LI; To use the rule for our problem solving.

For this task I collaborated with Taheesha for this math DLO. Part of this task we had to work out on paper.We had to find out how many fish did hemi and his whanau catch. The main information was that hemi caught three first every hour but her threw back one as a gift to tangaroa. Our problem was to find out how many fish they caught in 10 hours 20 hours and 100 hours. Here is the strategy and the answer with the main information.

Protec

Today fro this week i did my maths and i did my basuc facts and groups of ten,groups of five and more.Link to the game i played.

Multiplying

Today for this week i did my 11, and 7 but it was hard but  i did it myself.

Fractions

LI: to add and subtract fractions of sets. It was hard doing all this things all by myself but i got it done when it was school time.