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Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Senior Celebration!
What a stunningly hot day we had for our senior school Top Team challenge! You can see by the vibrant colours and the blue sky, what kind of day it was. Children dressed up, deciding on themes together in their groups. There was water fun, tower building, naughts and crosses, marble runs and throwing hoops and gumboots. At the end, we all had lemonade popsicles to quench our thirst, phew! Check out the fun below...
Saturday, November 5, 2016
Our Popcorn Containers!
Check out the variety of containers! Some of us were very close so we will decide on the winner tomorrow...
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| A cylinder, just shy of a few pieces... |
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| The popcorn falls a wee bit short of the top.. |
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| About half the popcorn fits in to this container |
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| Really interesting shaped container. Just a little large... |
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| This container is a bit skinny! They realised they would need to increase the base size |
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| A cone shape! Not quite big enough... |
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| Very close to the top - Finalists! |
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| Another container in the top 4! Extra frill on design... |
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| Pleased to be in the top 4! |
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| Lid on the design and finalists! They were going to change their dimensions but changed their mind at the last minute! |
Volume Investigation 2 (too)
We were given a task in pairs to design a container that held exactly 293 pieces of popcorn for a new movie theatre opening in town. The only constraints were that the popcorn had to be as close to the top of the container as possible without spilling over. There were different shaped containers and a variety! All we had was 10 pieces of popcorn to help us estimate what 293 might look like. There was lots of discussion and problem solving and different ways that pairs came up with the sizes for their containers.
We are having a competition tomorrow to find out the winner as 4 pairs were very close!
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Volume Investigation
We have been investigating volume in maths which brings in so many other maths skills! We discovered several formulas that worked, for working out the volumes of different sized boxes during the investigation. Some of us are creating different sized boxes to work out the maximum possible volume, others are creating boxes to hold a certain number of 'branbix' and others working out volumes involving decimals...
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
NZ Mathlete Of The Day
A certificate arrived in the mail today. Basit was the New Zealand Mathlete Of The Day on September 23rd, raising 8, 344 points. He also received a wristband. Great effort Basit!
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