Empathy

We are off and running with another great year underway. Our school-wide theme for the year is Tiaki Taonga which encompasses all aspects of caring. We are working to develop our understanding of EMPATHY and have made a video to help explain what we think it might look like.

PENN GURLZ from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

McDonald's Maths

This is the original menu from McDonald's.  What percent would best describe the average increase in price for your favourite treat if you were to purchase it today?  **Explain your thinking!

Percentage Shot In Basketball!

The New Zealand Herald recently ran this story and video:

"In the wacky world of trick shots, this magnificent effort reigns supreme.

Trick shot collective How Ridiculous travelled to Rotterdam this week to throw a basketball off a 96m viewing deck at the top of the Euromast and into a hoop below on the ground.

And on their 62nd attempt they made it."

What percentage would best describe their success?  Remember to share your thinking, not just an answer.

What is volume?

Team up with a buddy and watch this video and see if you are able to learn something new about volume.  Be sure to post a comment that shares your learning, or questions that you still might have.

Can you calculate the area of this irregular shape?

Team up with a partner and share the strategy that you used to solve this problem.

Pick A Partner And A Problem!

Partner up with a friend and see how many of these decimal problems you can make sense of. Remember that your thinking is much more important than an answer.

1. A water pitcher weighs 0.64 kg when empty and 1.728 kg when filled with water. How much does the water weigh?

2. A cyclist has travelled 145.8 km in the first stage of a race, 136.65 km in the second stage and 162.62 km in the third. How many km must the cyclist still complete if the entire race is 1000 km in length?

3. In a well filled with water, 184.5 litres are remove followed by 128.75 litres and finally 84.5 litres. After these withdrawals, there are 160 litres in the well. How much water did the well originally have? 

4. There are 240 boxes with 25 bags of coffee each. If each bag wighs 0.62 kg, what is the total weight of all the coffee? 

5. Knowing that 2.077m3 air weighs 2.7 kg, calculate how much 1m3 of air weighs.

6. Eva is on a diet which states that she cannot consume more than 600 calories in one meal. Yesterday she had lunch: 125 g of bread, 140 g of asparagus, 45 g of cheese and an apple of 130 g. If 1 g of bread has 3.3 calories, 1 g of asparagus, 0.32 calories, 1 g of cheese, 1.2 calories and 1 g of an apple has 0.52 calories. Did Eva follow her diet?

Decimal Game

Check out this decimal game. We played it a couple of different ways. In the first game we played so that the first person to add their scores to 1 were the winner. In the second, we played so that the last person to get to 1 was the winner. If you use three dice, you will be able to use thousandths too. Have some fun learning about decimals.