Alexa

Alexa showing her knowledge of proper and improper fractions

Symmetry art

Alexa is able to rotate shapes in various ways using directional language, clockwise, anti-clockwise, north, and degrees.

Alexa was able to make 2D and 3D models.  She was able to identify how many vertices, faces and edges that her models had.

Here is Alexa and Lucy working out the volume of a polyhedron.

Calculating area and perimeter



Length activity "I was able to work out that 5 snakes @ 11cm would be 55cm long."

MEASUREMENT

Each class member participated in an experiment that used a variety of mathematical concepts.  This was an experiment out of Figure it Out Level 3/4 called 'Candle Trials'.  Children got to...

-Use a timer to identify how many seconds it takes for a candle to go out once a jar is place over top of it.

-Fill jars with water and estimate and measure the capacity

-Work out the average time it took for candles to burn out

-Compare the time taken to the capacity of the container

-Make predictions about the time it would take to burn a candle in another container (i.e. 2000 mls)

Everybody enjoyed this hands on experiment.