Here it is! You have all been asking to do an application, so let's get into it! This week to begin we will be developing a success criteria to ensure we complete our application to a high standard. Here are some questions to think about when we are co-constructing our success criteria: - What must we include? - How can we show this? - How can we involve the members of our group? - What examples will we use? - How will we engage our audience. After we have completed this and thought about our goals, it is time to plan, and you have all seen one of these before (see below). Complete the planning sheet with detail to make sure you stay on track. Here is a list of the strategies you have learnt so far in Algebra: TAPARIMA/ TAPAONO: WALT identify repeating patterns and find rules to solve them WALT find patterns and describe them using words, rules and tables WALT find out what the missing number is by finding out what the letter or symbol equals PATIKI AND MARAMA: WALT identify repeating patterns and find rules to solve them WALT find patterns and describe them using words, rules and tables WALT find out what the missing number is by finding out what the letter or symbol equals WALT balance equations Great planning! After you have completed this and had it signed off by Miss Jones, it's time to create. Have a think about what you will use; Explain Everything, Popplet, Puppet Pals, Comic Life, iMovie, Google Docs, Google Presentation- the ideas are endless.
Once you have finished, please complete the reflective questions below. REFLECTIVE QUESTIONS: 1- How do you think you improved from your previous application? 2- Why do you think it was successful? 3- How did you get your students involved? 4- What would you do differently next time?
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Hey team! This term we are learning about Transformations, that is, rotations, reflections, tessellations and enlargement of shapes. Here are the links that may be useful for our sessions:
Session 1: Popplet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QXpkoWUFCo Maths is Fun: http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/transformations.html Tesselations Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-3tOa9CPb0 Session 3:Strip Design: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWsIVTM9N5k Session 4: Enlargements: http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/resizing.html Session 6: Rotations: Rotations: http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/rotation.html Session 7: Reflections: http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/reflection.html https://tellagami.com/# Welcome back everyone. I hope you all had a brilliant holiday. We are going to trial having online modelling books. Let me know what you think at the end of the week. Your team leader will still have the job of explaining activities and tasks to your group. All your activities will be online, either on the blog, or sent to your Hapara account in your maths folder. Your reflections will now be online too! No more trying to find that modelling book to return to me. Let's get started! And, we are going to give Flipped Classrooms a good go to- very exciting! Session 1: Mini Maths Inquiry: What is Algebra? Please go to your Hapara Maths folders. You will be using a new Google App called "Mind Meister", check it out by clicking on the link above. I have flipped out an activity for you to work on collaboratively with a buddy. Please, once you have finished, ensure you "share" it with your buddy so they have a copy. Session 2: Our BIG question for the week: HOW DO WE FIND RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PATTERNS AND NUMBERS, AND A RULE? Activity 1: Flipping the Classroom- who else can you learn from? Check out the following link to get started by clicking on the image to the left. Then, please have a go at the following practice activities (there are two of them- answers are below so you have to act with integrity and not be tempted to take a sneaky glance until you are completed) in groups of 2-3, record your findings in your maths books. Ensure you have ruled up your books, with a heading and date please. After completing this, please go to your Mathetics, no live Mathletics, algebra tasks please. Thanks. Session 3: Alright team, before coming to see me today, I would like you to watch the following two clips, in order please. Click on the image to open them. Then, once you have watched both clips, answer the questions on the weebly below in groups of 2-3, on a whiteboard surface, take a photo and show Miss Jones as evidence of your learning. Next, go to your reflective questions of the week and post your responses on the blog below. Great job this week everyone, keep it up! Follow up questions from clip:
1- Create a table like you saw in the first clip to record the pattern. 2- What is the pattern? Describe it. 3- How many children would there be at the party if there were 11 tables? 4- How many children would there be at the party if there were 20 tables? 5- How many children would there be at the party if there were 100 tables? 6- Can you create a rule? REFLECTIVE QUESTIONS - to be answered on the blog below. Thanks 1- How did you find the online modelling book? Explain your thinking 2- How do you feel about this strategy? Are you ready to "apply" your knowledge? 3- How did you work collaboratively within your team? Please explain ("good" is not a "good" enough answer) WELCOME TO TERM 4: ALGEBRAIC THINKING! Taparima/ Tapaono- the weebly is now your modelling book!25/9/2014 Welcome back everyone. I hope you all had a brilliant holiday. We are going to trial having online modelling books. Let me know what you think at the end of the week. Your team leader will still have the job of explaining activities and tasks to your group. All your activities will be online, either on the blog, or sent to your Hapara account in your maths folder. Your reflections will now be online too! No more trying to find that modelling book to return to me. Let's get started! Session 1: Mini Maths Inquiry: What is Algebra? Please go to your Hapara Maths folders. You will be using a new Google App called Mind Meister. Check it our by clicking the link above. Click on the "Mind Meister image". I have flipped out an activity for you to work on collaboratively with a buddy. Please, once you have finished, ensure you "share" it with your buddy so they have a copy. Session 2: Our BIG question for the week: HOW DO WE FIND RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PATTERNS AND NUMBERS, AND A RULE? After you have investigated the concept with me, please have a go at the following practice activity in groups of 2-3, record your findings on a whiteboard table, then take a photo and show Miss Jones as evidence of your work and thinking. After completing this, please go to your Mathetics, no live Mathletics, algebra tasks please. Thanks. Session 3: PRACTICE STAGE- working collaboratively with a partner or group of 3, have a go at the following practice activity, record your findings in your maths books to be marked when you see Miss Jones. After completing this, please complete your weekly reflections below. Ensure that you elaborate on your answers. Thanks, great job this week everyone! REFLECTIVE QUESTIONS: (add comment to the blog below please) 1- How did you enjoy the online modelling book, as opposed to the normal book? Why? 2- How confident are you feeling with this strategy? Are you ready to apply your knowledge? This week, we are getting involved on Twitter, with other schools from around the country solving the same problem and collaborating together online. Click on the image below to take you to the blog page. We will be designing a treasure chest with one piece of paper and masking tape. The challenge is for your treasure chest to be the strongest and hold the most treasure out of everyone. You need to think about the following questions and answer them on the blog belong, or tweet them to to twitter:
- What was tricky about the challenge? - Explain how you worked in a team? - What would you do different next time? - Where is the maths? Congratulations team! One fabulous term of mathematics completed. I have been very impressed with your Mini Maths Inquires and Applications- what amazing teachers you are. This week we are looking at How to find percentages of whole numbers. Here is an activity below, ensure you READ it carefully as it gives you a little hint along the way. Working in groups of 2-3 please. Once completed, please move to your tasks on Mathletics please. Wow, I can't believe it is the end of the term! What amazing learning you have all accomplished, congratulations! This week, you will be tackling imaging and numbers properties for our big question, How can we use our prior knowledge to estimate if one fraction is less than, or smaller than a half? Also, it is time to sink your teeth into some problem solving activities. Here is your first one. Please work in groups of 2-3 to solve these problems. Once you have completed this, please move onto your tasks on mathletics. Enjoy! Today we created our own learning, working out how to divide a whole by a fraction! We feel really confident solving these problems! Our Maths Applications! Teaching other children what we have learnt- Yes, we are the teachers!8/9/2014 Check out our PMI. This means that we reflected on our maths applications today and thought about P = positive, M = minus, I = interesting. Also, check out the photos below of us teaching other children what we have learnt. Hi Everyone. Here are some fun games to support your probability learning! I hope you enjoy them!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/data/probability/play/ http://mrnussbaum.com/probfair-play/ http://www.kidsmathgamesonline.com/numbers/probability.html |