More awesome Maths

We LOVE Maths in Team 8, so every week is like Maths Week in Team 8!

On Fridays at the moment we are learning how to measure length.

The first thing we did was make wiggly worms out of playdough... Check out this video where we use measurement language such as "longer than, shorter than" to describe our worms.

We got even more tricky the week after, measuring how 'tall' or 'wide' objects were by counting blocks. It was pretty cool comparing objects in the classroom!

The week after that, we measured using our very own feet! (Have you been in our classroom lately? -you can see the display on our wall).

THEN... because we are measurement SUPER STARS, we got to teach Room 11! We made some miss-matched skeletons by measuring parts of our body with paper. We used standard (cm's) and non-standard (blocks) units of measure. 

We truely are amazing at learning here in Team 8!

Come in soon and see what we are doing!

Maths Week - Counting Lollies!

Mrs Madden gave the school a challenge to see who could guess the correct amount of lollies in the three jars below.

Team 8 went and looked and then we had a discussion about how we could work it out.

Everyone had a different idea and everyone wanted to guess... BUT, Mrs Madden said we could only put in one guess per class.

What we did know is that we have to work out what jar A+ B + C =

Here are our guesstimates

After much discussion around how we could make one fair guess one clever person  said...could we add them together and do something with the numbers??

So after Mrs Grant helped a little, here are all the numbers added together then doing something special called division.

So our final decision was let's put in 272 lollies as the total.

Mrs Grant wasn't at assembly last Friday, so doesn't know how many lollies there were in the jars or Who got to eat the lollies. 

Was it us Team 8?

Were we close????

Koru Cross Country

Super proud of Team 8, not only did we have 2 ribbons, but we showed the best sportsmanship!

What a cool event!

Well done Dia!

Super effort Theo