Wednesday 31 August 2016

Special interest group: Rua Tekau

Today we looked at Maths all around us and came up with a list of what we saw, we will add to this list.

We discussed how we measure different objects for volume and mass. Cubic metres was a new term for our group. 

We discussed what we like people to say and do when working in our maths groups. 
Key ideas:
Talking together, being listened to, recognising our strategies, giving hints or tips but not the actual answer. Giving build ups. 
These will be our group rules during maths time. 

We also recognised everyone learns differently and sees patterns differently. 
(The dot card visual task). 
If shown this for three seconds, how do know how many dots there are? 



We were also given a problem to work in our groups. 

Tekau Ma Ono

Understanding the links between multiplication and division. 




Thursday 25 August 2016

Rua Tekau Ma rua

Drawing phone batteries to show percent is a winner today!! 



Wilmer is showing us what 50% looks like in variety of ways. 
Brayden used the computer battery to help him show and understand percent. 
Tim could simplify the fraction from 4/6 to 2/3rds.  He also showed it in a variety of ways. 



Rua Tekau Ma rua

Drawing phone batteries to show percent is a winner today!! 



Wilmer is showing us what 50% looks like in variety of ways. 
Brayden used the computer battery to help him show and understand percent. 
Tim could simplify the fraction from 4/6 to 2/3rds.  He also showed it in a variety of ways. 



Tuesday 23 August 2016

Monday 22 August 2016

MATHS WEEK 2 EQUATIONS:

Congratulations Room 21 for putting up the most equations for this question!!!


7 is the answer.  

What is the question/equation?


Answers:

Making mountains could be one way to illustrate it visually.  You could talk about the king of the mountain (triangle) and how it needs two numbers to reach the top, what could they be?

              7
3 4

Lots of combinations - reinforcing flexibility with Numbers.

This shows "reversibility"
Use the term ‘reversibility’ - two numbers equal the same irrespective of the order ie
3 + 4 = 7 and so does 4 +3 =7.  

This basic Maths Principle can halve the basic facts students need to learn.

0 + 7 =
1 + 6 =
2 + 5 =
3 + 4 =
4 + 3 =
5 + 2 =
6 + 1 =
7 + 0 =

We can move onto more challenging equations like...
Half of 14 is?
14  divided by 2 is?
How many times does 2 go into 14?
21 shared into 3 equal groups is --
One third of 21 is?

Answer:
10 is the fraction of a number what could the number and fraction be?

(experiment with different fractions).


10 is half of 20
So ½ of 20 is 10.

¼ of 40 is 10

Keep going..... please post in the comment box any other equations you may have.
THANK YOU

Tekau Ma Ono

Seeing patterns, working out how numbers are made up so we can work with them in many ways. 

Thanks Shavaun for being our teacher! 

Tekau Ma iwa

Working together with the materials to see how doubles can help us with our basic facts. 

Tekau Ma waru

Making our arrays using Pokemon cards then dots.  This helps us with our multiplication and division knowledge. 


Tekau Ma whitu

Here we have some balloons... 

We need to give 5 children, six balloons each. How many balloons do we need altogether? 


Tekau Ma Ono

Using arrays to group numbers and write our family of facts.

Here we are finding out if we had 28 blueberries and sharing them with four people, how many would each person get? 
How many times does 4 go into 28 or
4 X --- = 28 
Or 28 shared with 4 people gives us --- each.


Look below for our answer to our problem. 

Special Interest Group -20a

Our finished packaging for our biscuits. Well done group!! 

You have learnt a lot of Maths along the way.  Congratulations!! 

Special Interest Group - 20a

Creating packages to transport our biscuits home. 


Making our own arrays with our biscuits



Special Interest Group - 20a

Wednesday 17 August 2016

Working with Room 24

Using our feet to answer our Maths Problem today.

Look what question we could answer in groups. 


Some children could count in ones to 10 others could skip count in 2s to 10. 
2,4,6,8,10. 

Some children knew 5 + 5 = 10

Together we agreed it takes five people to make 10 feet. 

KaPai room 24




Rua Tekau

According to us the cheapest cookie to bake is the Chocolate Chip Recipe: 

We have halved this recipe: 

Our shopping list: 





Rua Tekau

According to us the cheapest cookie to bake is the Chocolate Chip Recipe: 

We have halved this recipe: 

Our shopping list: