Friday 23 August

Congratulations to Jessica and Brooke who now have over 2000 e-ako points.  They have both been extremely hard working ALiM students.  It is always good when students draw from knowledge gained through an e-ako task and use it in our sessions.  Today Room 18 were confident talking about how many dot images Mrs Culling was holding up and they were up to explain how they knew, e.g 1000 x 10 is 10,000.  The e-ako activity had given them a great insight into multiplying and dividing by 10.

Room 17 ALiM 
This is our second to last week of ALiM lessons!

Monique on e-ako.

Giogia is making a bubble puzzle to help learn some unknown basic facts.

Amy and Monique made a game of 'snatch' for Room 12.  They made number sentences using hundreds, tens and ones for the Year 4 children.  We'll look forward to getting some feedback from them soon.

Ella is recording a 'Think Link' to help her see connections between the fact that she is learning: 6x7=42, to other number sentences, such as 60 x 7 and 6 x 8.

Monique said that she preferred Lisa's method to solve the subtraction problem: 672-284.  The only strategy that nobody said they understood was Sam's method.  Secretly, Mrs Culling loves Sam's method!

George has made flash cards, a bubble puzzle and is now working on a 'Think Link' to learn his x 9.

  Remember to start with the biggest number to divide (share).  I couldn't use whole numbers to share 8 muffins between 72 people!

A calculator is a handy tool when you know how to 'drive' it properly.

Amy's ski run took 68.44 seconds.  If she was 3/10 (three tenths) faster, what would her time be?  Ella is using the place value flip chart to help solve this.

Everyone made up their own question using 'Amy's Ski Race' information and the rest of the group solved it.

Jason and Giorgia are having a game of 'Nice or Nasty'.  We tried a couple of variations to the original game!

 Mrs Culling read us a story called the 'Maths Curse' by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith.  It is about a poor boy whose teacher (Mrs Fibonacci) says to him "YOU KNOW, you can think of almost everything as a maths problem."

He then saw everything in his daily life as a math problem.

Mrs Culling got us to figure out the Fibonacci (Fib - on - ar- chi)sequence and see if we could continue it.

 

 

SOCIAL STUDIES is a geography problem:

TheMississippi River is about 4,000 kilometres long.  
An M&M is about 1 centimetre long.
There are 100 cm in a metre and 1,000 m in a km.

1. Estimate how many M&Ms it would take to measure the length of the Mississippi River.

2. Estimate how many M&Ms you would eat if you had to measure the Mississippi River with M&Ms.

Mrs Culling says that she'll put the curse on us next week and we'll solve some more of these questions.  Then we'll make up some of our own.

Thanks Mr Harris for visiting today. We are very privileged that the Board of Trustees values the programme so much and has enabled Mrs Culling to work with these two fantastic Year 8 groups.  Mrs Culling's favourite day of the week is Friday - ALiM... all morning!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mrs Culling had to write the blog for Room 17 today as everyone was under the 'Maths Curse' and had to listen to the end of the story.  It has taken Mrs C about 30 minutes to do this - she estimates that's 15-20 minutes longer than it would take two ALiM students working together!