Math array's are everywhere

Riansha's Array City

We have been learning about array's in math. They are everywhere we look. We created an array city to show our knowledge of math arrays.

Ryley's Array City

Exploring Shape

We have been learning about Tessellating shapes in different ways.
Hunter used a tangram puzzle to make a chicken.
Hollie made a swan using the same Tangram puzzle.
Lochlan persisted while trying to tessellate triangles to solve a puzzle.

Check out what our akonga have been doing on their blogs! - They love getting comments!

Tesselation

We have been learning about Shape. Today, we focused on tessellation.

We tessellated shapes in a puzzle.

We tesselated shapes and them used the panel to find rotational symmetry.

History of the tangram puzzle. Tangram puzzles originated in Imperial China during the Tang Dynasty, they are thought to have travelled to Europe in the 19th century on trading ships. Tangram puzzles were popular during World War 1 and have become the most popular dissection puzzle in the world.

It was quite tricky to make the fish if you didn't put the shape in exactly the right place... then the others wouldn't connect properly.

We tessellated shapes on each side, using a ruler to show the line of symmetry.

Having Fun with learning

Our Math warm up today was a Kahoot. It was a refresher on the Fractions that we have been learning about.

It's great to see new people on our podium!

We like making learning fun, by making a game out of it, to see how much of our learning is sinking in. It also reminds us of where we are making the mistakes so we can improve.

Making Math Starters Fun!

Today to start off Math, we had a game of Kahoot.

We learned about Fractions. To break up the tricky questions, there were some questions about songs  too. 

Our Podium winners today.

Aliyah: "I thought it was really fun because it made learning fun at the same time."

Oscar: "It was cool because I liked some of the songs."

Hollie: "I liked it because there was new songs."

Haylee: "I thought it was a miracle because not everyone knew the fractions."

Would we like to play it again? YES!