Lincoln

Calculating area and perimeter

Lincoln's improper and proper fraction work

Symmetry art

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

Lincoln was able to make a 2D and 3D shape.  He is beginning to correctly calculate the vertices, edges and faces of polyhedrons.

Here is Tommy and Lincoln working out the volume of a polyhedron 'tantrix box'.

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.