MATHS WEEK CHALLENGES
This week is Maths week.  For every correct question we earned 20 math dollars.  Mrs Culling said if we got $250.00, we'd earn a chocolate fish.
There were questions about:

• cupcakes
• train timetables
• reading the time
• magic squares
• shapes
• New Zealand food, money and climate
• powers of numbers
• what went wrong (some badly spelt road signs and markings)
• And we now know that a French mathematician called Blaise Pascal invented the calculator.  Thanks Mr Pascal - it was a tool that was used quite a bit in our session today!

For homework Room 17 are looking at Mrs Culling's cell phone plan.  Mrs C didn't think that she was getting a good deal and has now changed to a different plan.  Has she done the right thing?
Some things that we discussed were: how many texts a day did it average out as and how many cents per text was it costing.  

For Math Week, Mrs Longman has challenged the school with this:

12+3-4+5+67+8+9=100

Can you come up with one other representation of 100 with 9 digits in the right order and mathematical operations in between. (I've heard of at least 3 possible solutions so far!)

Giorgia and Jason are trying various calculations on Mr Pascal's calculator in order to see if Mrs Culling was right to change her cell phone plan.

I think the person who painted this road marking needs to go back to school!

Brooke's haul of chocolate fish!  2 fish for being first to answer the 'Essential Resources' questions, 1 for being her group's e-ako champion and 1 for getting $250 math week dollars.  Poor Mrs Culling will be broke if Brooke keeps this up!