Lockdown Week 3

Ms Allan Math Google Meet Times

Days:

Tuesday, Thursday and Friday

Times:

9am to 9:25am - Mathex and Coding Club - for inspiration

11:30 to 12:25pm - Year 5,6,7&8 Mathematics Together - for everyone

1pm to 1:25pm - Maths or Coding Support - for questions

Who:

All students are welcome to attend one or more of these sessions. You can choose the time that suits you best. The 11:30 session is the longest one, so if you only attend one it would be the best one to attend.

Why:

When we work together we learn from each other and motivate each other to do our best.

What:

Students will work together by taking turns to "present" their screens, or working on a shared document. They will create blog posts whilst "presenting" in order to ensure all students understand what their blog posts can include. There will be fun links posted in the chat function and plenty of time for questions. Students will be actively learning and sharing.

How:

Click on this link for all meetings.

Monday the 30th of August

Today I suggest you focus on doing mathematics without the internet, without a pen or paper, and without math books. Here are some ideas:

Cooking - this uses measurement
Games with dice - this uses probability
Card games - can you make up math games with what you already have in the home?
Puzzles - if you have any puzzles in the house perhaps today is the day to do them?

Tuesday the 31st of August

Continue with yesterdays activities, however, today you are going to BLOG about it. Explain the connections you found. For example: I made a cake and used fractions when....we will do this together in our Google Meet Sessions.

Wednesday the 1st of September

Choose something to work on from all the links provided. Hepetema or Room 6
If you can't choose go to Lockdown Support and do the first task that you have not already completed.
Spend time on the task. Year 5 => 10mins; Year 6 => 20mins; Year 7 => 30mins; Year 8 => 45mins.
Spend time BLOGGING about your learning. Year 5 => 5mins; Year 6 => 10mins; Year 7 => 15mins; Year 8 => 15mins.

Thursday the 2nd of September

Choose something to work on from all the links provided. Hepetema
If you can't choose go to Lockdown Support and do the first task that you have not already completed.
Spend time on the task. Year 5 => 10mins; Year 6 => 20mins; Year 7 => 30mins; Year 8 => 45mins.
Spend time BLOGGING about your learning. Year 5 => 5mins; Year 6 => 10mins; Year 7 => 15mins; Year 8 => 15mins.

During our online meeting there was a problem asking us to calculate the mean of the first five square numbers. In order to do this we needed to know what a square number is. So we went to Mathigon Polypad to get a visual representation of square numbers. We started with 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, the first five whole numbers. Then we squared each number: 1*1=1; 2*2=4; 3*3=9; 4*4=16; 5*5=25 so the "first five square numbers" are 1, 4, 9, 16 & 25. We added up 1+4+9+16+25=(1+9)+(4+16)+25=10+20+25=55. Then to find the MEAN we divided 55 by 5 to get 11. The answer is 11. (Note that "*" is used for multiplication, this works in Google Sheets and in Google Search Calculator).