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MATHS TERM 4!

OPTICAL ILLUSIONS

This is a task that combines art, mathematics and design. Students are asked to see and design optical illusions, think about the mathematics inside them and pose mathematical questions for their friends.

Task Instructions

Optical art consists of geometric shapes and patterns, and is often coloured in black and white. Look at the three examples, do you see anything about the patterns that cause them to create an optical illusion?
Using the 100-square grid, create your own interesting pattern. Share your designs with a classmate and find out if they see an illusion when looking at your pattern.
Did you get any more ideas about the ways to create an optical illusion? Describe your mathematical thinking about ways to do that.
Can you see any patterns, fractions, or decimals in your artwork? Where are they?
Think of a mathematical question that you could ask about your artwork.
If someone else wanted to recreate your artwork, what directions would you give them?

Can you recreate this?

How was this done?

Maths Week 2021

Click on the link to the left to take you to the Maths Millionaire Challenge for each day!

Choose either years 3 - 5 or years 6 - 8 depending on what level you feel comfortable with.

Training for Cross Country!

The more you put in, the more you get out!

Rich Task T3 W6 2021

An apple a day, keeps the Dr away!

It's surprising how many trees go into an orchard block!

Lockdown Pattern challenge!

a. How can you see the pattern growing?

b. How many blocks are used for pattern 4?

c. How many blocks are used in pattern 10?

d. Can you create a rule (or a formula) to decide how many blocks are needed for ANY number in pattern?

Look at them lines!

We thought it was crazy in NZ! Check out our neighbours across the ditch...

Super Soccer Stars

Have a look at what went down at the Coastal Cluster Soccer Tournament!

Design the Ultimate Bedroom!

What would YOU include in your Ultimate bedroom?

Let the game's Begin!

Fond out some fun facts about the Olympics!

TERM 2

Flying High!

Where did Mason fly to and what plane was he in?

Let's go fly a kite

How many years ago were the first kites used?

Chocolate time!

What's our favourite flavour chocolatet?

Dance Comp

What's your favourite dance move?..

Super Silver Ferns

How tall is our tallest Netballer?

Motocross Madness

How fast is the worlds fastest production bike?

Get your Teeth into this!

How many teeth do sharks lose in their lifetime?

Bayskate Break-In

How much ice-cream does a dinosaur eat?

Cracker game of Cricket

What is the Capacity of the MCG? Find out here...

Surfing at Te Awanga

How tall is a 6 foot wave? Find out...

SUBTRACTION STRATEGIES!

Have a go at these two strategies. If you are struggling with the Reversibility, then maybe don't try Subtraction using Equal Addition until you have that one nailed!

Subtraction using Reversibility.webm

Subtraction Using Reversibility!

This is a really fun strategy to use because it is visual.
This will work for subtraction up into the 1000s, millions, and even with decimals.

Subtraction with Equal Addition Strategy(EASY SUB).webm

Subtraction using Equal Addition

Another fun one to do.
REMEMBER : always TIDY the number you are TAKING AWAY, not the number you are Taking From.

Hī Ika!

Help Chaz to identify these fish...

It's Kai Time!

School Camp Rich Task

We are what we eat!

We want to find out how different our Senior School classes taste buds are. Using the DATA from YOUR CLASS below, graph the information to find out what was the most popular Pita Pit ordered yesterday.
What sort of GRAPH would best show the data?
What does a GRAPH need to have to correctly show the Data?