Thursday 29 June 2017

Special interest - intake 2

Creating our squares within our 11 x 13 rectangle:

We are trying to make the fewest amount:
Here are our results so far.

Robert: 143
Olivia:28
Khan: 20
Dayna: -
Rosie: 6
Lukas: 11
Andreas: -
Max - 16
Arad- 16

Group Wha: Making problems

Erin

"There are 24 people and 6 hotels, how many people are living in the hotels?

Pippa

"There are three houses and they have five people in each house.  How many people are there altogether?"


Group Wha - Making our own problems:

Franca:


"There are 6 people and three houses.  How many people in each house?"



Ollie
"In the school there were 6 ipads and five classes.  How many ipads altogether?"



Poppy
" If there are 8 people altogether and four homes.  How many people in each home?"

Group Rima: student of the week

Congratulations Nessa for being our student of the week:
Thank you for working hard, not giving up, and persevering until you understood the Concept. Then sharing your thinking with others. We are proud of you!

We are working on finding half on our snakes.

Group toru: playing salute

Group Tahi: Publishing our problem solving task:

We are learning to show multiplication and division in different ways. We are also using an array or picture to make images in our minds.

Tuesday 27 June 2017

Special Interest - intake 2

Today we discussed our strategies for the countdown numbers, I liked the way the team worked with Olivia's idea and Andreas could see how he could help when she was so close.
Great team work!!





Here's your new challenge:

Please Post your answers on the blog:


Today's Challenge:


Make a 11 x 13 rectangle on grid paper.
Investigate what is the fewest number of squares you can draw inside of your 11x13 rectangle?

Bring your work to Rm 23 when you can answer this!

Game of the week - group Rua

Can you see the greater and less than sign?? 
A great game to practice our place value of the numbers.


Friday 23 June 2017

Special Interest Intake 2: Thursday 22 June

Congratulations to Olivia and Andreas for being the first to comment on our blog!


Thank you to Jonathon, Max and Lucas for sharing their optical illusions.

We discussed how a piece of work becomes an optical illusion and agreed it needed these key elements:

1. Careful useful of size and shape.

2. Alternating use of colour (Black/white).

3. The use of grid paper to ensure sizes and shapes are even.


We also discussed our take home problems (picture of this on Tuesdays post).  This was challenging, and it is OK to leave it.  I only expect the first column to completed the others are there if you need a challenge.
We will discuss strategies during class sessions. Especially finding fractions of a set.

We finished off our lesson with another countdown problem.
Please pop your answers in the comment session:



 

Tuesday 20 June 2017

Special interest Intake 2

Making 130 using any operation with these numbers only allowed to be used once:

Have a look at the variety of ways the students came up with: Some worked others not, the discussions and thinking was the aim of this activity.

Group wha: how to work out area and our multiplication facts together.

Teaching the rest of the group our thinking..
fantastic ideas today team!!

Group toru: understanding our timestables

Having a word problem and array to see how
4 x 4 looks like?

Answering word problems with countdown cards. Group Tahi

Low floor - high ceiling question:

Meaning every child can attack this question at their level.
Our goal is to gain understanding of division and using the symbols to match.

Group Rua:

Using Geoboards to make arrays:

Group Rua:

Monday 19 June 2017

Week 8: Game of the week instructions:

Game of the week: I spy

Make an array either 8 x 5 or 4 x 10 with the cards (remove picture cards)

Then one player says 'I spy with my little eye two cards which add to make ____ "
The other player sees how many pairs they can find. 

The cards must be touching horizontally or vertically. Then the next player has a turn,



Thursday 15 June 2017

Special Interest Group: Intake two

Folding our paper into sixths....

This was a challenge for our group - Congratulations to Lucas for completing this challenge.


Have a go at completing our optical Art




Can you read back this number??

444,444,444,444,444 ??

Discuss with your family.



Wednesday 14 June 2017

Reviewing our Optical art work with Mathematical eyes:





Please discuss the following questions:

Which works are optical illusions?



What makes them an illusion??



How do you create an illusion with only paper and pencil?



Can you identify any different quadrilaterals?



Can you see and describe any patterns, fractions, or decimals in your artwork??





Monday 12 June 2017

Game of the Week: Salute

You need three people for this game.

One person calls salute.
Each pair puts a card that is face down on their forehead without looking.
The person who said salute adds both cards up and calls out the total.
Each person has to say what card is on their head...

Happy playing.

Thursday 8 June 2017

Thank you for all your blog comments!!

Group Rua

Making 10
Practising making 10 together.
We have used more than two cards today.
Ie. 6 + 2 + 2 = 10
1 + 6 + 3 = 10

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