Showing posts with label numeracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label numeracy. Show all posts

Monday, October 15, 2012

WALT use position and orientation

 During our maths study about poistion and orientaiton, we went outside to practise giving directions using the language of position and direction.  some of the vocabulary we used was; half and quarter turns, clockwise and anti clockwise, north, south east and west.

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Thursday, July 19, 2012

The St James' Gala


WALT apply our maths knowledge in real life contexts.


We had a great discussion about our class collection for the Gala.  One student thought we would win the class competition for donating the most goods as we have the biggest class.(28)  However the donations are based on a percentage because we have to be fair to students in small classes.
We then explored the idea of percentages and how many bags of sugar we would need this week to get 50%? (14)
Next we decided to find out our daily percentage of sugar donations for this week.  Today (Thursday) we had 15 bags and that came to 53.57%.  Anthony rounded this up to 54%.
A wondering though.......since Tim brought a 5kg bag, does that equal 3 bags?


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