Maths

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​ ​ Hey, this is where my maths work goes. My Reflection:29th of April Multiplication and Division

These few weeks we have been learning about multiplication and division. Multiplication: Over the past term we have learnt coloumn multiplication. When I started it wasn't that scary because I already learnt how to multiply by 1 digit but when I realised that soon we would be multipling by 2 digits I sort of started to worry a bit. But as time went on and Mr Gardiner and Mr Waldron encouraged and supported me I got the hang of it and now I can do it easily. I was relieved and excited and I felt silly for thinking I couldn't do it!! Division: I have just learnt how to do short division in the last few days. I never really got it last year but now I know the proccess and how to do it. Mr Waldron just taught me how to divide by 2 digits instead of only 1. It wasn't too much harder but when you have bigger numbers to divide by like 26 it can get hard because you don't know your 26 times tables. I love maths and learning new things and so far it has all been a lot of fun. Hopefully everything goes well in NAPLAN and I hope the questions aren't too hard!! My Reflection:7th of May Fractions Over the past week we have been learning about fractions. Fractions: When starting fraction work we have played a few games and leanrt new words that we put into our word splash. The first thing we did with fractions was make our own fraction wall. It was fun all the colouring and cutting out. The next day we played the first fraction wall game that what we rolled in the 10 sided dice was what we coloured in on our paper fraction wall. The next day Mrs Hillbrick was in our class correcting Mr Gardiner and helping out in the new game we played. It was fun. What we rolled on our 10 sided dice was that we had to colour in the equivelent fraction on our paper fraction wall. It was the first to colur in 5 rows. In our word splash we learnt that the top number in a fraction is called the numerator, the bottom number is the demoninator and the line in the middle is the vinculumn. My Reflection: 18th of June Perimeter I was away for most of the perimeter work because I was on holidays. When I arrived back at school I got to do the last perimeter sessions. That piece was going in our portfolio. We were to draw a house block with the measurement of 95cm but I got 96cm. Then we were to draw the perimeter of the house inside. We had to have at least 6 rooms and the lounge room had to be bigger than the kitchen. I completed mine in time and got all the measurements right. Now it is in my portfolio for my parents to see. My definition of perimeter is the measurement of the outside or edges of something or and object. 3D shapes In the last couple of weeks of Term 2 we have been learning in Maths, 3D shapes. <span style="color: #3d42db; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">We have learnt about the names of lots of the 3D shapes (and also some unusual 3D shapes such as the ihesahedron, the dodecahedron etc.) We have also learnt about pyramids and prisms, the diferences, the simaluarities and what determines the name. The way that you determine the name of a pyramid is the shape of the base and the way that you determine the name of a prism are the 2 faces on the ends of all of the rectangles and squares. We have learnt about nets and drawing them in our book and classyfying how many vertices*, edges and faces are in 3D shapes. <span style="color: #5656eb; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">*vertices: the corners on the shape (where to edges meet.) <span style="color: #5656eb; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Reflection: 26th of July <span style="color: #5656eb; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Angles <span style="color: #5656eb; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Last week we have been learning about angles. We have been learning how to use a protractor to measure angles, to draw angles for partners and to estimate what degree an angle is. A angle less than 90 degrees is an acute angle, a angle more than 90 degrees but less than 180 degreees is an obtuse angle, a angle exactly 180 degrees is a straight angle, a angle more than 180 degrees and less than 360 degrees is a reflex angle and an angle exactly 360 degrees is a revolution. Some of the first activites were a bit comfusing but when Miss Smith (our student teacher) showed me it was easy. <span style="color: #5656eb; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Reflection: 6th of August <span style="color: #5656eb; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Time <span style="color: #5656eb; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">These past few weeks we have been learning about time. We have been doing lots of different activites like reading train timetables, reading analouge and digital clocks, doing open-ended questions, creating T.V guides and creating questions about train time tables for a partner. We had to complete a train time table with missing times and I found that a bit hard It was in 24 hour time and some were a bit confusing. But in the end I got it finished and now it is getting easier and I can read a train time table. <span style="color: #5656eb; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Reflection: 27th of August <span style="color: #5656eb; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Graphing <span style="color: #5656eb; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Over the past weeks we have been learning how to choose an appropriate graph to show different sets of raw data and how to figure out the mean, median, mode and range. First we learnt how to place our raw data into a bar graph, then a line graph. We have learnt that our graphs have to be an easy to read/ look at and presentable so that anyone can come up and look at our graph and know what it is. I am still trying to figure out some of the steps on how to make up a pie graph. The mean is the average of your data, the median is the where you order your numbers from smallest to largest and the find the middle number, the mode is the most common/popular number on the graph and the range is where you order your numbers from smallest to largest and subtract the smallest number from the largest nuumber. I think graphing is a great, easy, neat, fun way to present any raw data. <span style="color: #5656eb; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Reflection: 15th of September <span style="color: #5656eb; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Mapping <span style="color: #5656eb; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">During the last couple of weeks in Term 3 we worked on mapping.We talked about all of the elements to making a map. There was scale, grid coordinates, x and y axis and key/legend. When we had done a few activites on that we had to try and draw a map of the school by using scale on a A3 piece of paper. We had to step out everything and then refer our steps to meters.