Tag: Maths

Investigating Pi w/ Mary Grace, Maia, Stephanie, Moe

Task Description: Yesterday, in Maths, Team Tui was learning about Pi. We did a small activity by measuring the Cylinder shapes with Pi.
How did we do it?

i. I measured the diameter using a Ruler.
ii. I measured the Circumference using a string.
iii. I divided the Circumference by the diameter.
iv. This result is called Pi.
v. The value is just over 3.

Maths Session w/ Teacher and Moe

Task Description: For our Teacher Maths Session today we had to Add and Subtract Fractions with related Denominators. Moe and I learnt about adding fractions and a ton of Shortcuts which we are very proud of. Such as, finding out which fraction is bigger. We found a shortcut taught by Ms Fonua.

Probability

TASK DESCRIPTION: Team Tui was learning about Probability for Maths. There were 3 activities relating to Probability: Greedy Pig, Bottle Flip and Cards. In Greedy Pig all you had to do was to roll the dice and if you get a number you would write it down in the squares but if you get number 1 you’d have to restart. Once you reach the end you must calculate everything. In Bottle Flip we would flip a bottle and have 10 turns each. After you must see if you have flipped it right or dropped it. If you did it right you put a line in the Success and if you didn’t, you’d have to put a line in failure. After that we would have to calculate the probability. In Cards, there was a screen that gave us a list of a specific card and there would be random covered cards on the table. We would have to uncover and see if it was a failure or a success.

Fun with Protractors

Task Description: How do we figure out this equation?

  1. Put one ray of the angle on the 0° mark.
  2. Put the centre of the protractor where the two rays meet.
  3. Read the angle starting from 0° mark.

Then you can solve all the questions from (Year 6, U.6)
For Maths today, Most of Team Tui did IXL and learning about Protractors.

The correct answer here is 45° because you can start from either sides, (0° and 180°) So I counted, 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, and then 45° So I realised the answer was 45°. Sounds very simple so have a try!

TEAM TUI Maths Work, Measuring

Task Description: Team Tui did some measuring maths today with any measuring items used to measure a shape by our choices. How did we work it out by centimetre? Here’s our strategy also shown on the paper.

9.13+9.13+14.3+14.3+13.5= 59.37 cm, how? Algorithm.

   9.13                   14.3                   18.26
+ 9.13              + 14.3                 + 28.6
——–              ——–              ———

18.26 cm        28.6 cm              46.32 cm
+ 13.5 cm

————-

59.37 cm

Millimetres: 593.7 mm

Centimetres: 59.37 cm