Crazy Confusing Math

 Last week my math group and I made a DLO about our learning. In the question it said we had a restaurant and there were three tables, the biggest table had three times as much as the small one and the medium one had two times as much as the smallest one. Everyone struggled on that part so to make it easier the teacher said to concentrate on the middle part of the question the middle part said on tuesday night three quarters of the seats were taken and then twelve people arrived unfortunately there were only enough seats for half of them. It made it easier because it was easier to understand and we all knew the answer and how to solve it. We all knew that half of twelve is six and if three quarters were full then there were one quarter free, then half of twelve is six and so six is one quarter. So if there are 6 in each quarter and there are 4 quarters so six times four equals twenty-four. Next we were guessing random numbers to equal up to 24 we guessed a lot of numbers then we guessed 4. Next we went four times two which equal 8 then 4 times 3 which equals twelve then we added them altogether and it all equaled up to 24. I think it was really challenging because it was hard to understand. Have you ever done something like this?

Catapult Engineering For King Richard The 3rd

 On Tuesday afternoon the year sixes got into groups of 3 and 4 then attempted to build a catapult. I was in a group of 4 with Hudson, Jaelyn-Marie and Manaaki. We got the materials that we were going to use, the materials were 30 bamboo sticks, 30 rubber bands, 1 roll of electric tape, string, scissors, two A4 paper, 1 A3 paper, measuring tape and 1 ping pong ball. We had to launch 1 ping pong ball at least 3 metres using the materials that we were given. Then we brainstormed for a bit, after we finished brainstorming we built a sturdy structure made out of bamboo sticks and rubber bands. The thing I found hard was building the launching part of the build. But then we started to talk with each other, then we came up with multiple ideas but we finished just as the time was up so that was a bit dumb but we had fun. I think we did really good at the base and how sturdy it was. I think we need to improve on communicating with each other.

Confusing Instructions

 On the first day back at school we had a reading test so the teacher could see if we were able to read instructions properly. Firstly we got a pencil and then our teacher handed out the sheets of paper that we were going to write on. The first thing on the sheet of paper there were 23 instruction we had to follow, the first instruction was to “read everything carefully before you do anything.” Personally I thought the first instruction meant read the instructions carefully and then do it after you read those instructions. Then I moved onto the second instruction, the second instruction said to “ Put your name in the upper right hand corner of the sheet” so I did that and so on. I carried on until the time was up. When the time was up we got told to sit on the mat when we sat down the teacher talked us through the first few instructions, when she did some of us just noticed what the first instruction was meant to read all of them carefully before you do anything. Then when you got to the last instruction it said to only do question one and two and then draw something at the back of the paper.

At the end I felt so embarrassed when we got told what the last instruction said. I learnt to read things carefully. In the future I think I will try get better at reading things care. Have you ever done a reading test like that?