Merry Christmas my Mathematicians and whanau

Wishing all the students and their families a very Merry Christmas and well deserved break!

Congratulations for a very successful 2017!!

Love
Mrs M  xxxx

Group wha- celebrating our learning

Group Rua: celebrating our 2017 success

Group Tahi: Celebrating Success - 2017

Estimation

A great mathematics strategy is to estimate before working out a solution.

Group Toru

Felicia is sharing her strategy on how to make 56 with different numbers:
This is still based on our book- 'one is a snail'.

She is using her 'groups of ' knowledge
- 5 groups of 10
- 1 group of 4
- 1 group of 2

or (5 x 10) + (1 x 4) + (1 x 2)
= 56

Ev en and o dd numbers:

What are they?
How do know if the number is an odd or even number?

Odd and Even Numbers:

Group Wha: house fractions

Our Maths group has 4 people:
1 takahe
1 kea
1 hohoi
1 tui

What fraction are in each house?

Group Toru: house Fractions

Group Rua: Game of Totals:

We are now modifying the game?? How would you do this?

Group Rua: playing ‘game of totals’

The aim is the first person to make 10.

Each person uses the numbers 1,2,3 only.

We notice there is a pattern

The first person to reach '6' will always...

Group Tahi: our fraction model by Chantelle

Special Interest : Introducing factorials

As part of finding the numbers 1- 20 using only four 4's .  We were introduced to Factorials.

Factorials use the exclamation mark (!)
ie  4!

a " factorial of n items gives you the number of ways you can arrange the given items."

So 4! means = 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 24


For example: If there are two coins - you can arrange them in two different ways - like wise if you have 3 coins - there are 6 ways you can arrange them.
If you have four coins you can arrange then in ___ ways? 

Group Tahi and Wha: bar models

These groups have made their own bar models using google slides.
They used the shape tools to create and measure their bar models. Today the whole was 24. We know our fractions all depend on our whole.

Very proud team!!

Special interest: intake 2- Fraction snake..

This is the best puzzle to allow students to see fractions in a different way.
Each student has a snake 10 segments long (later increase the segments) or they can make their own.
They chose three colours and colour in a segment randomly.

They must make two cuts ensuring each part shows half of a colour.
 Each colour must be represented.

Well done Dayna and Olivia who collaborated together to create their snake.

Can you see how each colour is represented as half??

Have a go yourselves- don't forget to post a comment.

Group Toru: playing multiplication battle

Challenging ourselves - working out strategies to multiply numbers.

Please comment what you have learnt Team😀

Group Rua: Multiplication and Division Links

Group Tahi - Maths for Art Week

Unfortunately the winter chills have kept our students at home.  Get better real soon team!!

We played making 10 and started our Optical Art pieces.

Special Interest - Today's warm up,,, have a go

 Can you make 724 using any operation with the digits below.??
Please pop your answer and workings in the comments below.