Position and direction

On Monday we began our unit on position and direction and started exploring the idea of Cartesian co-ordinates. We had a lot of fun trying to work out how to explain where we thought the counter was before adding any form of grid to our paper. We then learnt about René Descarte, the story of the fly and  how he invented the Cartesian plane. 

Today we were using the Cartesian plane method to mark treasure on a map of our school and then give directions. We had a lot of fun and enjoyed the chocolate at the end of the treasure hunt!

Luke's conversions

For maths we have been learning to convert measurements from millilitres to litres

Quaid's Maths

My maths medals

Today at home I did this at home as my maths medals. It is a practiced for tomorrow's work. And it was easy and hard and I really like doing it sometimes when I'm in the mood to do it. But I hope you enjoyed it. :)  By Quaid

Miro G's Maths

Maths Tuesday

Today for maths I had to figure out the square root of certain numbers. It was very easy because I have done this kind of work a lot before and I want harder maths. 

Eden's Maths Medals

E.M Maths Medals.

Hi, I hope you are having a great day! So in my maths group superstars, we are trying to learn how to do square numbers. I found this really complicating on 14 x 14 and 12 x 12. But I found the rest easy because I already knew some of the answers. ( My mum helped me with some.) This took me about 15 minutes. Thank you for reading this and checking out my blog! From Eden.

Miro G's Maths Video

Today I am the teacher and I will be teaching you how to do mental maths.
The hardest part of making this video was trying to figure out how to explain it all.
Enjoy!

Countdown

For maths today we had to learn the game countdown. Here is a video of Lotte and Miss Farr playing countdown and explaining their thinking. Countdown is a maths game where you have to pick 6 random cards (two large and four small) and then you have to use those cards and your basic facts knowledge to make a random three digit number. You can only use each number once and can only have whole numbers.

The numbers Lotte and Miss Farr selected and the number they are trying to make.

How much will dinner cost?- Angus

For maths last week we had to find a recipe that we wanted to cook for our family and then work out how much it will cost. Here is Angus's recipe and how he made his.

Dion's Mental Maths

Hi, this is my work to try and help others I hope I do with this strategy. thanks, Wevideo.

Welcome to Whenua 2020

Kia ora and welcome to our blog. We are a group of 29 Year 6/7 students from Paroa School on the West Coast. This term we are focusing on the Treaty of Waitangi and Tikanga around the Marae. At the end of the term we will be going to visit our local marae in Arahura.

We hope you enjoy exploring and learning and seeing what we get up to.