Guess My Number

Today I solved a problem called guess my number. In guess my number you had to take all the info you have and try to guess the number. It was hard doing the first one because I had to pick from 3 numbers but it was easy doing the rest. It was pretty easy for me but I wonder how hard others can make it.

Making a Treasure Map

Today I made a Treasure Map with instructions. First I had to draw the islands and mark the places on the maps and then I could colour it in. Then we wrote instructions of where to go to find the treasure also each square was 100 meters. Then we had to get someone to read the instructions and find the treasure and when they do you write the directions on signs and then you can get them stuck onto the wall by Mrs Mcg.

The 7 Stars Of Matariki Maths

Today in math Mrs Mc,G told us to draw stars on a white board in the shape of the  stars from Matariki and see how many shapes with corners you can put into it because Matariki was coming up. It was hard making all the shapes because the stars we're in such odd positions but easy making the stars. The most simple shape I made was the Triangle but the hardest I found was the polygon witch was the whole 7 sides. Can you find more then me? You probably can but that's all the shapes I could find that weren't polygons.

Basketball On Tower

Today in inquiry everyone is blogging about what they have been doing for the last 3 weeks. We had 4 options we could pick to try make a bridge, a tower, a parachute or a vehicle. I picked tower because it seemed the easiest until I tried building it of course. I was not able to work on it much because I hurt my toe and I was not at school for about 4 days so I didn't have much time. We got to use only paper and masking tape. It was hard because I din't have much time and I didn't have as much materials as I thought but it was easy planning and designing a draft. I didn't see if it would work have to tried it before. Have you ever tried anything like this at your school

Straw Rafts

In Inquiry we are learning about the design process. The design process is where you plan, design and test a product or theory. Sometimes when you test it it doesn't work and you have to start again to see how you would make it better. Mrs McG gave us a challenge. We had to plan, design and build a straw raft to float with 40g of weight on it. We could only use 20 straws and a meter of masking tape. Our raft failed 2 times because it turns out for a straw raft to float you need to make the raft less then the water. We did some research about how rafts float and found that the straws have to be perfectly in line and not all wonky. we found it hard because we needed more straws.