Transformation Style

We have investigating Geometry over the next couple of weeks- I found this clip that will hopefully be catchy enough to make the vocabulary terms and their meanings, that we will be using in class, easier to recall!

Financial Literacy

Thanks Sophie and Libby for allowing me to share your research! Perhaps the pet/ dog purchasing step was one too far?

We have been building on our financial literacy- coming to grips with new terms, the different forms of interest and budgeting.
It was very interesting for students in Room 12 to search for a career, learn about salary rates and then apply this information to the cost of living- I am afraid that many decided a discussion with Mum and Dad about long-term living arrangements at home was in order!

Location, Location, Location

We have begun a short unit on location in maths this week.

Found this catchy youtube clip to share with the class to support our learning about how to use and read scales on maps...We were awesome at map reading after this- comparing the length of the South Island with the distance New Zealand is to Antarctica. (Antartica looked really close on the map!)

Statistics- jingles that help us remember

Below are a couple of catchy ways to remember the meanings of some of the new terms we are learning at the moment in mathematics. In class on Friday, we couldn't reach consensuses as to which youtube clip was the most effective...hence the inclusion of both! We are reaching the end of our statistical investigations and are busy analysing our resulting data. Keep an eye out for individual investigations making it onto blogs this coming week.

Room 12 versus the 'Vitruvian Man'.

As part of our unit on measurement we applied our knowledge of metres, centimetres and millimetres to investigate one of Leonardo De Vinci's theories regarding the ideal proportions of the human figure. We discovered that the majority of us are just off the ratio of 1. Following discussion we attributed this to a number of possibilities; we are still growing so may not be 'balanced' yet, our measurements may not have been accurate enough- we talked about our methods here and discovered significant variation in technique! Or maybe....Leonardo's theory doesn't hold up in relation to modern man?