I finished Xtramaths!

Yay!  I finished Xtramaths!

It showed this after I finished division.

Notetaking & Notemaking - Gallipoli and Turkey's war

Go to this link and read the battle of gallipoli information

Fill in keywords ONLY under the headings below:

Gallipoli

Turkey

war

Feb 1915 & Jan 1916

Egypt

Suez Canal

NZlanders

NZEF

Turks

Arabs

Australians

O.E.

Killed

Insert a photo here

Event:  The war between Gallipoli and Turkey

What it commemorates: People who died in the war

Start and end dates: February 1915  and January 1916

Where the event took place: Egypt, Suez canal and Gallipoli.

Who was involved: NZEF, Turkeys and Arabarics, Australians and New Zealanders.

Causes of the event: Ottoman Empire entered the war

Effects of the event: A lot of New Zealanders got killed.

Plagiarism

L.I. - to know what plagiarism is

to understand why it is wrong

to use strategies to help prevent plagiarism

Look up plagiarism in the dictionary and paste a definition below.

The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.

Watch these 3 videos on plagiarism.

Play this game to show your understanding of plagiarism

List 5 things you have learnt about plagiarism:

• Plagiarism is copying other people’s work
• You can avoid plagiarism by citing.
• Common knowledge and own experience does not count as plagiarism.
• Plagiarising might make you fail an assessment.
• Citing means mentioning the resource of the text, quote, or anything similar.

Character Analysis - Marion

Leaf

The leaf  flutters and glides

the same as a bird

down towards the ground.

It perches

looking upwards to the sky

on its back

and then is carried away by the wind.

Math

My learning intention was transformation - slide, flip and rotate/turn.
My activity was on studdyladder.
It was easy because it was simple to remember.

My art Voicethread

I am a Wave

I am a Wave

I am a wave waiting

to be washed

ashore.

I’m somedays HUGE,

and somedays small.

I am sometimes powerful

and sometimes gentle.

I travel with the

sea and the sea

with me.

I have water inside so

if you touch me

you’ll feel like winter.

I journey along the sea with

nothing inside me.

I’m jolly with the sea with

blueness surrounding me.

I like being a wave because I can

visit every shore around

the world.

By Mengchun

Culture maths

Xtramaths Score

This my Xtramaths score this week.  The highest score for my subtraction in race the teacher is 31, in the picture.

Today's Number

Today’s Number:

136

Write it in words

One hundred and thirty six ✓

Write it as an expanded number

100 + 30 + 6 ✓

Add 3

139 ✓

+ 25

161 ✓

Subtract 5

131 ✓

- 17

119 ✓

Next 3 even numbers

138, 140, 142 V

Double it

272 V

Last 4 odd numbers

135, 133, 131, 129 ✓

Half of it

68 ✓

10% of it is

13.6 ✓

25% of it is

34 ✓

⅓ of it is

45 ✓

Multiply by 6

816 ✓

x by 4

544 ✓

Divide by 4

34 ✓

÷ by 6

22.6 ✓

Place Value Games

Our focus this unit has been on place value.  This is the game I played to work on my place value. It's called Rockets.  I needed to know my decimals.

Time for Breakfst 2

Investigating example

Our question:

How long does the average person spend in the shower in their lifetime?

What we need to find out or estimate:

What is the length of an average lifetime?

What is the length of an average shower?

Our plan:

We know the average lifetime is 79 years because we found that information on the Statistics New Zealand

website.

To work out the length of an average shower we are all going to time ourselves and other members of our family in the shower and then use these times to calculate an average time.

Person	Time in shower
Jack	8 minutes
Jack’s mum	3 minutes
Andrew	15 minutes
Andrew’s dad	5 minutes
Andrew’s brother	6 minutes
Sarah	12 minutes
Sarah’s sister	8 minutes

8 + 3 + 15 + 6 + 5 + 12 + 8 = 57

57 ÷ 7 = 8.1, 8 minutes

We asked our families and most people have a shower every day, but some people have more than one a day

and some people have less than one a day so we are assuming the average person has one shower a day.

In 79 years there are 79 x 356 days = 28 124 days.

28 124 days x 8 minutes = 224 993 minutes

224 993 minutes ÷ 60 minutes in an hour = 3 749 hours

3 749 hours ÷ 24 hours in a day = 156 days

156 days ÷ 30 days in an average month = 5.2 months

Our conclusion:

The average person spends just over 5 months of their life in the shower.

Think about:

How did they work out their average time spent doing the activity?

Work out the average number, time how many years people usually live for by how many days in a year.  Take the answer, time it by the average number and take the answer and divide it by 60.  Take that answer, divide that by 24, and then the answer to that divide by 30 is how many months they spend in the shower/ bath.

What maths knowledge and strategies did they use?

Times, divide, plus, the average number.

What is the formula for working out an average?

By adding their time together and divide by the number of people.

Using an Index

Most non-fiction books have an index.  Like a table of contents, it lists the books contents and relevant page numbers, but in much more detail.  It presents the topics in alphabetical order to help your search.  Below is an example from a health book.

INDEX aerobics                    2-14 breathing                 9-10 carbohydrates      36 co-ordination         20-25 cycling                       32 diet                              30-40 diseases                   45-65 doctor                       40-44 drinking                    63 drugs, harmful      70-75 drugs, medical       60-65 exercise                    11-20 fat                               35 fatigue                      76-79 good health            80-90 happy                       91-92 hospital                    40-44, 48-65 hygiene                    93-94

illness                           45-65 incapacitated           45-65 injuries                         60-65 inoculation                 96-98 lungs                             9-10, 60-64 medicine                      45-65, 96-98 mental illness            99-120 moods                          99-104 pharmacist                 60-65 physical activities     121-150 rest                                 151-155 self-discipline              115-120               smoking                       121-124 sport                             15-20 strength                      12-14 vigour                           140-150 vitamins                       64-65 weight                           30-35

Before you start highlight 4 words you don’t know and look them up in the dictionary.

Aerobics - a form of physical exercise that combines rhythmic aerobic exercise with stretching and strength training routines.

Carbohydrate - a large biological molecule, or macromolecule, consisting of carbon (C), hydrogen (H), and oxygen (O) atoms.

Fatigue - a subjective feeling of tiredness which is distinct from weakness.

Incapacitated - deprived of strength or power; debilitated.

Why are there two index entries for drugs?

Because there are two kinds of drugs.  They can’t put them together.

Which two entries will help you find out about tiredness and how to cope?

Rest and pharmacist.

Which pages would you turn to in order to find out about injuries?

60 - 65

Which two entries would you use to find out more about healthy eating?

Diet and vitamins.

Which pages would you turn to in order to find out about the bad effects of smoking? Lungs and smoking.

On which pages would you find out about hospital life?

40-44 & 48 - 65.

Why do you think there are two ranges of page numbers for lungs?

Because halfway through lungs they started about the breathing chapter and then it go back to lungs.

On which pages would you find out more about the healthy effects of sport?

15-20.