As part of our maths learning this week and Inquiry, we learnt about food energy(kJ) and then we investigated the nutritional value of foods from McDonalds: After going to the website and analysing the Energy amounts in the different foods and amount of Sodium(salt) and sugar we used part-whole strategies to work out differences in the amounts and to add together total amounts of the meal we would usually choose.
It definitely made us more aware of what we are eating especially when we did some research about how much sugar, salt and Food Energy we should have per day and what can happen over time if we have too much
McDonalds Menu Get your child to show you what we looked at.
Week 2
These are some of the examples of lunchboxes that would have the least effect on our environment due to low levels of waste/packaging:
Maths this week saw us looking inside our lunch boxes and thinking about what happens to the waste.
After finding out how long it takes for different items to breakdown we used part-whole strategies to find out the difference between some common lunchbox foods take to break down and placing them on a timeline. We thought about the time the foods in our own lunch boxes would take as well as the packaging (gladwrap, wax paper, plastic /paper bags)
Part-whole Strategies
Year 3/4 students should be working within Stage 5 of the Number Framework. Within this stage they are learning to use part-whole strategies. Instead of counting, students at this stage can see numbers not only as complete units but also as sub-dividable units. That is, they see a collection of 8 objects as both an “eight” but can also think of it as “1 and 7”, “2 and 6”, “3 and 5”, “4 and 4”. This is called part-whole thinking. ( see 'Strategies for solving maths problems' below for further examples)
There are so many different ways to solve problems!!!!
Look at some of the different ways we worked out how many dots there were.
Mrs Prescott put the dots on while we closed our eyes, we then got to have a quick look and tried to figure out how many there were. Click on the subitizing button to see:
- Having a growth mindset for mathematics is important.
-We can all learn math to any level we choose.
-Self belief is really important.
- Math learning is best when we have opportunities to make connections between pictures and numbers.
-It is good to draw and to try to understand mathematics visually.
- Speed is not best, we should take our time and
reflect to make sense of the math we are learning.
-Patterns are everywhere and they are very important in math.
TERM 1 2018
What a great week of Maths! Team work! Learning!
We kicked off the year with:
Week of Inspirational Maths Go to the website, explore the videos and the concepts we have been taking a look at.
Most importantly what we learnt was:
- Having a growth mindset for mathematics is important.
-We can all learn math to any level we choose.
-Self belief is really important.
- Math learning is best when we have opportunities to make connections between pictures and numbers.
-It is good to draw and to try to understand mathematics visually.
- Speed is not best, we should take our time and
reflect to make sense of the math we are learning.
-Patterns are everywhere and they are very important in math.
- Mistakes Grow Your Brain!
- We can learn from others and we have different ways of looking at things.
Pascals Triangle
This triangle is often named Pascal’s Triangle, afetr Blaise Pascal, who was a French mathematician from the 1600’s, but we
know the triangle was discovered and used much earlier in India, Iran, China, Germany, Greece and Italy.
I gave all the students our copy of Pascal’s triangle with some missing numbers and asked students to work
in pairs to find the missing numbers.
The students had to first find the sum of the numbers in the rows and then to shade the odd numbers
to think about patterns, then they were asked to explore and find their own patterns.
What Patterns can you see?
Term 3 2017
Week 1- We begin this term by looking at 2D and 3D Shapes, symmetry and translation here are some links to websites on these concepts:
Shapes What are Polygons?
Cuboid/Rectangular Prism
2D Shapes You Tube Video
3D Shape You Tube Video
Quadrilaterals You Tube
Lines and angles
Angles
Make your own tessellation
tessellating
tessellating art
Term 2 Week 3
As part of our maths learning this week and Inquiry, we learnt about food energy(kJ) and then we investigated the nutritional value of foods from McDonalds: After going to the website and analysing the Energy amounts in the different foods and amount of Sodium(salt) and sugar we used part-whole strategies to work out differences in the amounts and to add together total amounts of the meal we would usually choose.
It definitely made us more aware of what we are eating especially when we did some research about how much sugar, salt and Food Energy we should have per day and what can happen over time if we have too much
McDonalds Menu Get your child to show you what we looked at.
Week 2
These are some of the examples of lunchboxes that would have the least effect on our environment due to low levels of waste/packaging:
Maths this week saw us looking inside our lunch boxes and thinking about what happens to the waste.
After finding out how long it takes for different items to breakdown we used part-whole strategies to find out the difference between some common lunchbox foods take to break down and placing them on a timeline. We thought about the time the foods in our own lunch boxes would take as well as the packaging (gladwrap, wax paper, plastic /paper bags)
Part-whole Strategies
Year 3/4 students should be working within Stage 5 of the Number Framework. Within this stage they are learning to use part-whole strategies. Instead of counting, students at this stage can see numbers not only as complete units but also as sub-dividable units. That is, they see a collection of 8 objects as both an “eight” but can also think of it as “1 and 7”, “2 and 6”, “3 and 5”, “4 and 4”. This is called part-whole thinking. ( see 'Strategies for solving maths problems' below for further examples)
There are so many different ways to solve problems!!!!
Look at some of the different ways we worked out how many dots there were.
Mrs Prescott put the dots on while we closed our eyes, we then got to have a quick look and tried to figure out how many there were. Click on the subitizing button to see:
Strategies for solving maths problems - Click on the strategy you are learning and show your parents and caregivers
A great way of understanding how your child is learning Maths and a good place for your child to do some home learning.
At the end of their 2 years of school your child should be at the counting on Stage (4),and ready to move into Early Additive Stage (5EA) in Year 3.
At the end of year 4 they should be at the Advanced Additive Stage (5AA), and ready to move into the Multiplicative Stage(6)
Bump to ten strategy When using this strategy for subtraction you must add the same amount to both numbers (equal additions)
when you are solving an addition problem you must add to one and take the same amount away from the other number (Tidy Number)
Some fun and exciting sites for you to improve you maths skills!
Fractions
Haunted Fractions
Equivalent Fractions on a number line
Numberline showing equivalent fractions
Match sets of equivalent fractions to go to the next level
Shoot the fraction
Maths is Fun
Maths Playground
Studyladder
A great site for practicing your Maths skills and building knowledge.Mathletics
Kids numbers Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division plus many more!
maths attack You're a doctor and you have to answer maths questions to stop bacteria and viruses
toy theatre A website with a range of games for maths, reading, art etc...
Maori Numbers and pronunciation
woodlands maths
Make your own tessellation
tessellating
tessellating art
- Having a growth mindset for mathematics is important.
-We can all learn math to any level we choose.
-Self belief is really important.
- Math learning is best when we have opportunities to make connections between pictures and numbers.
-It is good to draw and to try to understand mathematics visually.
- Speed is not best, we should take our time and
reflect to make sense of the math we are learning.
-Patterns are everywhere and they are very important in math.
- Mistakes Grow Your Brain!