Olympics Challenge 3

 LI: To find the most efficient strategy

Since the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are going on at the moment LS2 are doing maths tasks related to the Olympics. For this olympic challenge we had to find out how many right angles were on a olympic badminton racket. Our clue was that there were 250 squares on the racket. The strategy that we used was multiplication. When we finished our DLO we made a screencastify explaining our strategy. 

Olympics Challenge 2

 LI: To find the most efficient strategy

Since the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are going on at the moment LS2 are doing maths tasks related to the Olympics. This task was about the difference between the bronze, silver and gold medal winner scores. My strategy was to add 00.001 on to the silver medal winner score as the gold winner won by 00.001 point!

Olympics Challenge 1

LI: To find the most efficient strategy

                        

Since the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are going on at the moment LS2 are doing maths tasks related to the Olympics. This task was about Michael Phelps, he is a competitive Olympian that attends swimming. Every stroke he takes moves him 2 meters, he competed in 8 seperate events during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. All of the races add up to 1.5km, since every stroke takes him 2 meters, you'll have to divide the total by 2 which results in 750.

Exponents

LI: To learn what exponents are 

                         

This term for maths we are learning how to do algebra. Exponents like to algebra as it is part of the BEDMAS acronym. Exponents are operations in maths, an exponent is a small number above a normal number that shows how you multiply the number. It is the second letter in the BEDMAS acronym.

Pay it Forward - C.A.R.E

  LI: To pay it forward

For this careaward task I chose to pay it forward by teaching my friend Oscar how to do algebra. This works as my teacher Mrs Anderson taught me how to do algebra and I taught Oscar. Oscar also has a blogpost where he pays what i taught him to someone else.

Tutor - C.A.R.E

 LI: To tutor someone who needs extra help with something

For this careaward task i chose to teach my friend Oscar how to do algebra. I explained to him how everything goes in the BEDMAS order. BEDMAS is Brackets, Exponents, Division, Multiplication, Addition and subraction. I chose to do this as teaching Oscar how to do algebra will improve his mathematic skills.

LS2 Age Graph

 LI: To plan & carry out statistical investigations

                                         

For our activity we had to create a graph on a topic. Leon and I went around our class to find 15 different people. We asked them how old they were. The results were that there were 2 people out of 15 were 10, 7 people out of 15 were 11 and 6 people out of 15 were 12.

After gathering out data were created. We used a pie chart to find our results. We noticed that almost half of some of the LS2 students are 11, 12 was the second at 40%! We had 2 student that were 10 which was the least amount. Me and Leon predicted that most of the students were 11 which was correct!

Weighty Challenge

 LI: To learn about weights

                                            

This week for maths we have been learning about weight measurements. Me and my group M.A.D.S have created a slideshow to present how we figured out questions about measurement. My favourite thing about this activity was that we could see how big the lasagna in the question was.

Problem Solving | Tangrams

LI: To make connections to problem solving.

This week for reading we had a problem with the internet connection so we decided to make tangrams with LS1. The lesson was all about problem solving and collaborating. The only objects we had were A4 papers and scissors. We started with an A4 paper and started folding and cutting. The paper ended up in different shapes. All of us problem solved and created different animals such as dogs, cats, turtles etc. The steps were really simple if we listened carefully. This was fun and challenging because we needed to change the orientation of the shapes and position    ` them to fit. Tangrams were actually invented in china around 200-300 years ago, they are ancient puzzles that people used to trade with.