Peak Trail Blazer - Great work everyone!

Peak Trail Blazer 2015 on PhotoPeach

How many seedlings are in my vege patch?

How many seedlings are in my vege patch? Year 5 girls on PhotoPeach

Fruit Kebabs - Room 5 and 7

Fruit Kebabs - It's all about sharing on PhotoPeach

Making fruit kebabs - Room 6 and 8

Making fruit kebabs - Rooms 6 and 8 on PhotoPeach
Hi everyone,
We wanted to share our learning with you.  Over the last few weeks we have been exploring fractions and equal sharing.  Before we made kebabs we had to share the fruit out between the 9 people in our group.  Sometimes we got a whole pieces of fruit, or more than one of each fruit. Other times we only got a part, or a fraction of the fruit. We are strong mathematicians who are learning to show and represent our thinking in different ways.  You will see from the photo's how we use equipment, equations, pictures and relationship charts to help justify our thinking.
We had so much fun and the fruit kebabs were delicious!

 

Fruit Kebabs and equal sharing - Year 4

Fruit Kebabs and equal sharing on PhotoPeach

Learning multiplication and division facts together

Making connections between multiplication and division on PhotoPeach

Make 10 on a 3X3 array

Make 10! on PhotoPeach

Year 3's making toast. Can you find fractions in the toast?

Year 3's making toast and noticing and wondering about fractions on PhotoPeach

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Year 4's making toast and noticing and wondering about fractions

Toast and equal shares on PhotoPeach

So what makes a task rich?

So what makes a task rich? on PhotoPeach

The next masterchefs - Year 5

Doubling the recipe on PhotoPeach

Help! I can't remember the code! Year 3-4

Help! I can't remember the code! on PhotoPeach
This was a rich acivity for reading and writing numbers up to 1000.  Lots of discussion took place related to Place value....what is the value of the 0.  Can it be at the beginning of the number...how much is it worth in the middle/end of the number?  If the code is between 500 and 800 could it be 450?  If the number onely has one zero....could it be 600?  Look for the clever number patterns we created as we tried to solve this problem!

 

The maths in making chocolate brownie - Year 3's

Making Chocolate Brownie on PhotoPeach

Year 5...thinking flexibly using quick images

Quick images is an activity that encourages students to use groupings flexibly to determine how many there are in total.
The image above and below is shown for 3 seconds...in those 3 seconds these were some of our noticings -
I saw an array of 5 along the bottom and 4 up the side - that is 5 groups of 4...
I saw 4+4+4+4+4...I knew that 4+4=8...double 8 is 16....16+4=24
I saw 2 groups of 10...2X10 = 20
I saw 2 groups of 8....8+8 or 2X8.....that equalled 16 + 4 =20
I saw 5+5+5+5....5,10,15,20...or 4 groups of 5...that is 4X5 which equals 20

What did you see and how would you represent and discuss your findings?

Quick images provide rich opportunities to useflexible groupings,
opportunities to discuss our thinking and what we visualised
opportunities to represent our thinking in different ways
opportunites to use maths language

The Year 4's investigate temperature and thermometers.

We are looking at the maths and number when looking at temperature and the thermometer.

We had to use our skip counting in 2's to read the temperature.

When we put the thermometer in hot water the mercury increased to over 90 degrees celcius.

The temperature in the freezer dropped to -4 degrees.

What do you notice?  What do you wonder?
Look at the actual temperature, 11.8.  It is a decimal.  11 whole numbers and 8 tenths.  This means the temperature is more than 11 degrees but not quite 12 degrees.  How much will the temperature drop overnight?  

Number detectives look for tidy tens - Year 3/4

We are number detectives who search for tidy tens! on PhotoPeach

Maths is about creativity and making sense.

How many numbers can you create using the 4 digits 8,7,6,2?

This student found 24 possible combinations...do you agree?

Can you see how this student has created a system or pattern to cover all combinations.  How would you work the problem out?

Let's take the maths further - chocolate crackles - Year 5

So what is the maths in baking? on PhotoPeach

Chocolate crackles - Year 3-4

What is the maths in making chocolate crackles - Year 3-4 on PhotoPeach

Reading numbers to 100,000,000

Reading numbers to 100,000,000//mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/14f67eef2ff7eb1a


Reading numbers to 100,000,000//mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/14f67eef2ff7eb1a

Click on the link to hear us reading numbers to 100,000,000
We all took risks with our learning and we did make some mistakes.  It was OK making mistakes as it made us stop and think more deeply about how to read the number correctly.