Space Probability Statements

I was tidying up my virtual desktop this evening and found this fun bit of probability we did a week or so ago. The thing about space is that it is so vast it is hard to say whether something is certain or not. You will notice some statements are in a few different columns - we just couldn't decide on one!

Surveys

We have fun designing and carrying out some surveys this week.
We have asked questions like: What is your favourite colour? What is your favourite shop? What is your favourite holiday?
We give four options for the people we ask to choose from, this makes it easier to do the next bit!
When we have asked 15 people and kept a tally of their responses, we look at the results and make three statements about them.
The statements usually have words like most, least, popular, more, prefer in them.

Why don't you try carrying out a survey with your family and friends this weekend?

The Best White Bread Ever!

Today at school we made bread with Mrs Allen. Some of the ingredients were: water, salt and bread. When we put the bread mixture in and pressed start, the machine started to make a funny noise. After a while it stopped. Mrs Allen said that soon after morning tea, the bread will be ready. I'm looking forward to eating it.

by Kayla

Room 16 are making bread. There are two teams. The key ingredient is yeast, that makes the bread rise. I wish I could open the lid and eat it now! 

Mmmmm... what's that smell? It's the bread - it smells good. I wonder how much time until it is finished.

by Max

Today we made bread because it has to do with measuring and we're learning about measuring in Maths. 

Some of the ingredients we used were water, salt and butter. We used a bread machine. I got to put the ingredients in the machine and push the start button. The other group put too much salt in. I hope the bread is delicious.

by Samantha

Today I walked in the door and Mrs Allen told us that we were making bread. We got into two teams. We put water in a big pot with high grade flour, salt, white sugar and some other stuff.

It got quite messy, so, as always - the dumbest part of cooking (and why I don't cook), we had to clean up - boring!!!

I hope it's going to be ready soon. I'm hungry!

by Isabella

Today Room 16 made bread.  When I first came in I didn't know that we were making bread. I looked at the two machines, they were bread makers. We had to measure the ingredients carefully.
Wow the smell was really strong. Our class smelled like a bakery!
by Morgan

Mental note: remove formatting prompts before taking screen shot!

Thanks Mrs Allen!

Capacity Capers!

We know that capacity is the measure of how much something can hold. We did an experiment to find out the capacities of some containers we had lying around.
We want you to make a prediction about what order these containers go in starting from the smallest capacity to the largest capacity. That means from the container that holds the least to the container that holds the most.
Please send us a comment with your prediction. We will post the answer on Friday. You could set up a similar experiment at home - WARNING it gets a bit wet!
Good luck and good guessing.

Hmm, that's a bit tricky to see...

Ahh - that's better!

Saturday 16th October:  The answer is B, A, E, C and D and F are equal. 

Measurement

Fahrenheit got the better of me!

This week we are learning about measurement.

Today we talked about measuring weight, distance, time, temperature, capacity, speed and density. Perhaps at home this week you can explain and show about measuring you do each day at home.

We had a quick look at the fun website Map My Run. You could go there to find out how far away from school and each other you live.

Geometry

Today we looked at patterns and decided whether they were examples of translation, reflection, rotation or none of these. Next we created our own examples of these operations.

What's Correct Term for the Mirror Line?

Isn't this a fascinating photo? I hope this jogs your memory to find out what the proper term for the mirror line is.

Good Guessing - That's What Estimation's All About

Hooray for our estimating, now we have a jar of 730 jellybeans to enjoy.

This how we made our Good Guess

1. We looked at the bottom of the glass jar and counted the number of jellybeans on the bottom layer.
2. We measured (using a bendy ruler) the height of the jar.
3. We measured the amount of space the bottom layer took up.
4. We worked out how many layers there were in the jar by dividing the height by the height of one layer.
5. We multiplied the number of jellybeans in the bottom layer by the number of layers we estimated there were.

We were only 14 out!

Triangle Song

Here is a YouTube movie of James Blunt singing about a triangle on Sesame Street.
Click here.

Maths Week

This week is Maths Week.
We are learning about Geometry. I've discovered this website that answers all those tricky questions about parallelograms, quadrilaterals and the like.