Interpreting Timetables

Over the past 2 weeks during Maths time, we have been learning how to read and interpret timetables. We think that this is a great life skill to have as we need to be able to work out timetables when we use public transport around the world.
As part of our maths mahi, we had to complete an interpreting timetables workbook. Once these are completed, we have to embed them onto our blogs. Here is Reagan's mahi. She has interpreted these timetables exceptionally well! Ka Pai Reagan!

Jemma's Maths Work

Jemma has been working really hard with her Teacher Aide during Maths time. Jemma has been learning to subtract numbers and has been practicing both in her Maths book and online. Today Jemma completed some subtraction word problems. She was able to tell Miss Hines what she had done and could even recall the subtraction problems and read them back! We are so proud of you Jemma! Keep up the hard work!

Maths Puzzle

Today Miss Hines gave us a challenging maths puzzle where we were given a grid and some numbers and we had to fit the numbers into the grid. Some of us found this particularly challenging - especially the girls, but the boys worked together and with team work they managed to finish it (they couldn't beat Miss Hines though!) The boys were so engaged, it was great to see! We enjoyed this so much that we might make this a weekly challenge!  

Giving a Helping Hand

This morning Miss Hines witnessed something awesome! Levi was speaking to Nikalai about his maths and said that he was having trouble with his multiplication. Nikalai became 'the expert' and willingly in his own time, began showing Levi the way he works out his multiplication! Thank you for being a kind and caring class member Nikalai. You have certainly stepped up and I am sure Levi appreciates the help you have given him! 

Basic Facts

Every morning we start our day with 100 basic facts questions. These are always different and they are a mix of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We have 5 minutes to complete as many as we can. Below is a photo of our leader board. These people are our top 5 who have completed 100 questions correctly and as you can see, Kristian is the fastest by getting 100 correct in 1 minute and 51 seconds!

Plotting Coordinates

We have been learning how to plot coordinates. For this activity we had to draw and label our axis and then plot the coordinates to create the picture. Some of us found it hard in the beginning because we forgot that we have to go along the axis first, before we went up or down. Check out some of our blogs for our pwn finished products!

Maths

This week for maths some of the fantastic Totara 2 and 3 learners have been learning how to find the perimeter of a shape. We are hoping that we can get outside next week and find the perimeter of the field, the court area and even some of the plots in the garden!

Baking

Today Totara 2 and 3 made some chocolate chip biscuits for Maths. We had to work out how much the ingredients cost and how much each batch of biscuits cost to make. We also used a Mindfulness technique before we ate our biscuits. We thought that they would be a great surprise for the staff so we shared them with them too. Mackenzie's mum sent us a lovely email to say thank you and to show her appreciation.

Royden's Maths

Royden has been working really hard on his maths this week with Belinda. He has been working on patterns and rules. This is Royden's pattern that he made up and made Miss Hines try and figure out. Great job Royden! You are a star!

Angles

This week for maths WALT identify angles and measure them using a protractor.

We already knew that a circle is 360 degrees and a straight line is 180 degrees.
We have learnt that a right angle is 90 degrees and is always 90 degrees no matter what.
An acute angle is less than 90 degrees. We discovered that if we think of something little it is 'cute' so this helps us remember that an acute angle is a small angle.
An obtuse angle is more than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees. To remember this we thought that this is quite a big angle and if you are big you can be obese (which begins with the same letters).
A reflex angle is an angle that is bigger than 180 degrees but smaller than 360 degrees.

We have had a lot of fun learning to use the protractors (although some of us have realised that we have to be pretty accurate in order to get the answer right!

Keep an eye on our individual blogs for our DLO's on angles.

Enlargements

This week we have been doing enlargements for Maths. Enlargements come under the Geometry and Measurement strand and they require the children to measure and draw their grid on their small character and then estimated the new size of their larger grid. They then used division to check that their estimations were correct for their larger grid. I was really impressed with the first attempts T1 made and we are going to continue to use the new skills we have learnt this week to create 
some more!

Geometry DLO's

For the past 2 weeks Room 17 has had a geometry focus for maths. We have been learning the properties of different shapes and have had some fun creating 3D shapes using nets. Check out our DLO's below.

 

Wyatt	Caitlin	Royden	Reilly
Kyle	Mackenzie C	Jordan	Alexander
Cameron	Jimmy	Mackenzie H	Callan
Ruby	Kaleb	Shaun	Ben
Nikalai	Holly	Griffin	Alex
Emma W	Mya	Emma O	Autumn
Xavier	James	Shialla	Royden Pt2

Freaky Fractions Maths

The Freaky Fractions are learning to plot positive and negative numbers. By doing this they are creating some awesome pictures. Can't wait to see them when they are all finished! 

Maths

Spheres Maths Group working hard on their 2-digit by 2-digit multiplication! 💯

Problem Solving

Rooms 17 and 18 had a great afternoon problem solving. There was some fantastic team work displayed and some very competitive teams :-)