Algebra

This week's maths focus has been Algebra, in particular finding rules for sequential patterns.  It has been quite challenging, but there have been a lot of great discussions happening around the class.

Here are a few shots of the what our board has been looking like at the end of our maths session:

Today (20 August)

Yesterday (19 August)

Here are some clips of our discussions and work:

Finding the area of a shape

Room 8 has been learning how to find the area of a shape.  Here is a video to help you remember how we have been working out area.

**Please remember that we don't write more than 1 equals sign on a line!

Xtramath

We have started using the site xtramath.org to practice our basic facts. On this site you must answer basic facts questions quickly and correctly. It is quite hard to do!

Congratulations to Kaleb and Robin for completing the addition facts section.  They have
answered all of the addition facts questions in under 3 seconds.  Wow, what a great effort!

Maths - Place Value with decimals

Today for maths we were practising converting decimals to whole numbers, such as 3.502 million is the same as 3,502,000. This was quite challenging!

We had to order the populations for cities around the world. We wrote the population onto a post-it, then we ordered the populations from smallest to largest. As a class we checked the order. We had to change some because they were in the wrong order. Oops! 

What did you learn from this activity?

2015!

Wow, it's another new year at Paerata School!

This year we have an awesome group of Year 5 and 6s in Room 8. We are going to use our class blog to showcase our fantastic learning.

To start the year, I would like all students in Room 8 to complete this Google Form about what they think about maths.

I am so looking forward to having a brilliant year in Room 8! Miss Bolton

Problem Solving - week 3

Follow the link to a Slideshow of our solutions.  Make a comment saying if you agree or disagree with the solution.  Make sure you explain why you agree or disagree.

Link to problem solving

NZ Maths Challenge

Last week Room 8 took part in the nation wide New Zealand Maths Challenge, run by Mathletics.

 After a frustrating start (the website crashed!), we were able to get onto the site and challenge the rest of the country.


Here are a few photos of Room 8 taking part in the challenge.