Can you count how many triangles make this bunny?
Clue- there are more than 10 triangles.
How many can you find? 
Thursday 24 March 2016
Wednesday 23 March 2016
Star Wars minions group
We are answering and proving who ate the biggest piece of chocolate.
"If all four students bought the same size chocolate bar. Kathy ate 2/7 of her bar, Xavier eats 2/9 of his bar, Mark eats 2/11 of his bar and Blake eats 2/13 of his bar.
Who ate the most?"
The group all thought, Blake ate the most because 13 is the biggest number.
We made our own chocolate bars to find how much of the chocolate each student ate.
Reflections and learning:
We now agree that Kathy ate the most as 2/7 is bigger than 2/13.
"The bigger the number at the bottom means the piece gets smaller" - Isabella
"The bottom number tells us how many pieces are in the whole." Blake
A fraction has two parts.
a denominator - the bottom number (how many pieces of chocolate in a whole bar)
a numerator - the top number (the pieces of chocolate eaten).
Great learning Team!!
Monday 14 March 2016
Thursday 10 March 2016
Wednesday 9 March 2016
Thank you Abby for sharing what a strategy is.
"It is a way to figure out an answer, like splitting numbers to make them easier to work out."
Another game to practice our strategies
Please modify the game to help you work out and talk about strategies and patterns you see.
We have modified the game by using 5 cards with no time limit.
Please use your strategies
- making numbers to 5 or 10
Eg. 7+ 3 =10 or 5 + 6 = 10+ 1 = 11
- finding groups of numbers
Eg. 2+ 3 = 5 and 1+ 4 = 5 and 5
So 3 groups of 5 or 3x5 = 15
Have fun and please let me know strategies that you used.
Tuesday 8 March 2016
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