Baking Time -Rice Bubble Cone Christmas Trees

Today we made 3d shape cones out of 2d semi circles and filled them with white chocolate and rice bubbles. 

 Here is the recipe: 

 Rice Bubble Cone Christmas Trees 

2 Ingredients is all that’s needed for these cute little Christmas Trees 

Ingredients: 

200g White Chocolate 

200g Rice Bubbles

Other Equipment: Baking Paper cut into semi-circles, White Icing in a tube for decorating, Various Sprinkles for decorating, Icing Sugar for dusting. 

Steps: 

1. Roll the baking paper semi circles into cones by using the middle of the flat side to create the point. Fasten with sticky tape. 

2. Melt the white chocolate for 60 seconds in the microwave. 

3. Add the rice bubbles and mix until they are evenly coated. 

4. Spoon the mixture into the cones, pressing down with the back of a spoon as you go to make sure it is as compacted as possible. Stand the filled cones point side down in a glass to hold them, and refrigerate for 1 hour. 4. Once refrigerated, peel off the baking paper to reveal your beautiful Christmas Tree! 

Decorate however you like. I used a squeezy tube of white icing to stick on some stars, but you can really use any kind of decoration you want, or leave them plain. It’s totally your creative project! 

 Watch a modified Video of the process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqXdQLG0OS4

Maths Acceleration at Sunnyhills

Last week I was able to share all your hard work and achievements to other teachers and Principals around NZ. 

Here I am getting my certificate with other teachers doing the same great Maths programmes in their schools. 

Next year I get to wear a gown and hat to receive my certificate from the University. I will post a photo of that next year. 

Amazing questions - making the links.

Mathematical language is a great part of understanding mathematics. It can be the key to connecting ideas and when to apply mathematical concepts. 

Here we look at how our number system helps us convert types of measurement.  

We can see the words gives us a clue as to how it relates.  

Vera asked " why do all the words have metres in it"

" what does centi mean?"

- this discussion led to the meaning of century - being 100." Then we made the links.. So what does milli mean... 

This is the best part of teaching, when students direct and ask the questions and discussions occur so meaning is authentic to them.  

Converting our measurements

Here we wrote how we can change measurements 

Geometry Today...

Current research states that geometry and in particular spatial skills is a key to mathematical success.

These skills also support the future STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers.

How do we include Spatial Awareness in our mathematic classes?? 

Visualising shapes and talking about how these shapes are made.  (Composing/decomposing shapes)

Here are some clues of our mystery shape:
We gave one clue at a time - most children found this relatively straight forward until clue 5, We worked as a group to solve it and then watched a youtube clip to get a greater understanding;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcuzXwtamJc

Answer:

A parallelogram

Can you see the multi link cubes used to create the parallelogram ( do you notice the angles are the same when they are opposite each other?). 

From there we looked at other shapes - rectangles and triangles and saw how this parallelogram was composed.  This activity gave us wonderful mathematical discussions. 

Tekau Ma iwa- student Voice:

Writing our own problems and then answering other problems, really made us become problem finders!!

We had lots of discussion about the best way we can explain our thinking and how we could come up with an efficient strategy that makes sense to us. 

These problems are challenging.  Congratulations for not giving up. Your perseverance skills are to be commended! 

Grace:

" I learnt 14 + 14+ 14 + 14 + 14 + 14+ 14 = is the same as 7 groups of 14 and it makes 98.

I know 7 X 10 = 70

I know 7 X 4 = 28

I know 78 + 28 = 98

I can show this on an array too"

Vera:

I learnt how to use the place value blocks. 

I used 1  X 100 block and three ten blocks. This makes 130.

I figured out how many 5's go into 100 which is 20. Then I did the same with the 30, I know 3 tens are in thirty and there is six 5's in 30.  

20 + 6 = 26

I know there are 26 5's in 130. 

So 26 X 5 = 130 or 130 divided by 5 is 26.

Tanya:

I learnt that if you halve 10 it would be two sides of 5. 

So if you had 90 balloons and needed to give each of the five children the same amount then you... Wait..., There are 9 tens in 90, so you double 9 to make 18. 

And that is the same as doubling 5 to make 10. So there are 18 5's in the number 90. 

Isabelle:

I learnt that 56 divided by 8 is 7

Because I used the 56 place value blocks to make equal groups. I used four tens and split them equally. So I had 8 groups of 5 = 8x 5 = 40 . 

Then I added the ones, that meant there were 7 in each group." 

Special interest group

Can you add any other combinations? 

Can you see a pattern? Please add your ideas under comments. 

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. 

Rua Tekau Ma tahi - group 21

Revising and making connections with our fraction work.

Well done girls!!

Tekau Ma whitu

Here are our groups of six balloons for each child. 

We are using the hundreds board and abacus to count in 6s.. 

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 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 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

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: 

Rua Tekau

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

We have halved this recipe: 

Our shopping list: