Category: Hanga | Create

Significant Figures

 

This week, Group 1 got to make a DLO to explain how to work with significant figures in numbers on the DLO. Significant figures are the important digits in a number that show its precision. The resource helps you understand how to keep track of these digits when solving math problems.

The idea is that sometimes you need to show all the significant figures in a number, whether it has one, two, three, four, or five. Doing this makes it easier to work with the number correctly. For example, if you have the number 886,652, and you want to round it to different significant figures:

– To have only 1 significant figure, you look at the first digit and round the number to the nearest hundred thousand, so it becomes 900,000.
– To have 2 significant figures, you keep the first two digits, which are 88, and then round, making it 890,000.
– To have 3 significant figures, keep 888, and the number becomes 887,000.

One interesting fact I learnt was that if I shows these steps clearly, it is making it easier for students to understand how to identify and work with significant figures. Whilst also understanding how to do this is useful because it helps make measurements and calculations more accurate and consistent, especially in math.

Highest Common Multiple

 

This week in math, Group 1 is learning about something called the highest common factor. Basically, the highest common factor is the biggest number that can divide into two or more numbers exactly, without leaving anything left over.

To understand this better, think about what factors are. Factors are numbers that you can multiply together to make a bigger number. For example, if you multiply 6 by 8, you get 48. So, 6 and 8 are factors of 48.

When we talk about the highest common factor of two numbers, we are looking for the biggest number that can fit evenly into both of those numbers. For example, if you look at 12 and 18: the factors of 12 are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12; and the factors of 18 are 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 18. The biggest number that appears in both lists is 6. So, the highest common factor of 12 and 18 is 6. This means 6 is the largest number that divides evenly into both 12 and 18.

One interesting fact I learnt was if I taught students and learnt st getting good at finding the highest common factor it helps them to understand how numbers relate to each other and can be useful in many math problems, like simplifying fractions or dividing things into equal parts.

Prime and Composite

 

Today for this task we learned about two types of numbers prime numbers and composite numbers. Prime numbers are special because they only have two factors: 1 and the number itself. For example, 3 is a prime number because only 1 and 3 can be multiplied together to make 3. Another example is 5. These numbers can’t be divided evenly by any other numbers except 1 and themselves.

On the other hand, composite numbers are numbers that can be divided evenly by more than just 1 and themselves. This means they have more factors. For example, 6 is a composite number because it can be divided evenly by 1, 2, 3, and 6. Because of this, most even numbers like 4, 6, 8, and 10 are composite numbers. The only even number that is prime is 2, because it only has two factors: 1 and 2. All the other even numbers have more factors, making them composite. Basically, prime numbers are like numbers with only two factors, and composite numbers are like numbers with a bigger group of friends they can be divided by.

Bok Choy

 

LI: To understand we make judgements based on stereotyping, assumptions and prejudices

We read the text Bok Choy for Reading. This text showed us the prejudices that existed towards the Chinese immigrants in early NZ. It also showed us that it is important to show empathy for those who are seen to be different from us. Our challenge after reading this was to write a letter to Ah Sum to thank him properly, as you didn’t have the right words when you were shivering in his hut.

Something I found interesting about the events in this text was all of this took place in a setting where houses/huts were built by hand, besdie and dirt hillside.

Tech

 

For our Tech session last week my group were   carrying out the activity of sewing,.  For sewing we are to make our own designs for own tote bag, we needed to create our own designs to be applied to the tote bag by sewing it on after cutting out our designs out the colours felt we chose, we finished we some of us carrying on to sewing while others were finalising there desgin.
Somthing I found diverting was being able to make my own designs which could be anything I wanted.

Social Influence

LI: To evaluate peer pressure, digital interactions and social influences

We unpacked how in a world of followers and influencers, how we can stay the ‘Navigator’ of our own lives.  We enjoyed this task because we found out so much about social influence and how it can affect people, it was also facinating to explain the differences between positive and negative influence talking about examples of each one.

Fly by Night, TOPES Narrative,

LI: To write a narrative from the point of view of a baby owl on its fist flight

 

The sun was gradually vanishing from my line of sight, hiding behind the towering trees as the moon began to take its place in the sky. As I looked down I saw how high I was and was a bit nervous. My talons gripped the thick bark tighter than usual as I was looking down and anticipating the thoughts of my first flight, which was taking place tonight.  
I watched my family as I questioned my mother “is it time yet?” “she murmured a quiet “yes,it is time”.  I drew my wings as I was ready to fly. I flapped my wings. But I realized I couldn’t move my body as if time took a pause, the fear inside of me was too much for me to even move. 

My mother watched me and realized it was not my time yet.  She spoke softly “Maybe another time”. I drew back my wings in disappointment as I watched from afar, as my family flew off one after another.
Everyday after that moment I tried and tried, and grew my confidence being able to jump but still failed to flap my wings within the ideal time. I gripped my talons one last time as I was about to give up, I had the constant thought of this was gonna be it and this was my time to fly. 
My family saw my struggle and supported me, especially my mother, she spoke with confidence “believe in yourself and fly like the wind”.  I drew in my wings as I was thinking this was the time, the time for me to fly. I let go of the bark and started flapping my wings and I realized at last, my talons were finally off the bark, I looked beneath me and finally saw me hovering above. I moved forward, gaining more speed.  I looked at my right seeing my family but to the left I saw my mothers face filled with happiness, I was proud and thankful of myself and my family for helping me build up the courage to fly and soar through the sky.

Mrs Anderson read us the book ‘First Flight’ by June Crebbin. We talked about the narrators point of view and used a Gemini Gem to prompt us to think more deeply about what the story might look like when told in the first person.

I enjoyed using the Gem because it helped me add more detail and be very specific with using sensory words.

Building our class culture

 

LI: To Collaborate to create a piece of Art

For Art we have been learning to collaborate and to work with one other, the people we were going to draw were people that are leaders and was determined to accomplish what they were fighting for.  For this task we have worked in a group of 6, our group was selected to Draw Kate Shepherd Kate Sheppard is recognised as the leader of the fight to win the right for New Zealand women to vote..

Johnny Pohe

 

For reading we were learning about Johnny Pohe and his great escape. Johnny Pohe was a pilot that taught people and fought in wars, one day he got caught and was sent to prison camp in Germany. Him and other people that were caught in the prison made up a play to make three tunnels Tom, Dick and Harry. Dick and Tom were exploded and abandoned and Harry was the last standing one, they waited for a moonless night to escape.

Once that came they went for the opening and went into the tunnels, due to a delay only 200 people were supposed to make it out but only seventy six escaped, and three escaped safely. For this task we made the pros and cons of being an escapee or staying inside the prison. Check out the DLO my group made.

 

 

Lowest Common Multiple

In maths we previously learnt about lowest common multiples, we learnt that in order to get a lowest common you need to have 2 numbers and work out all of the number they can multiply into, and when you find a first match between multiples, then that is the lowest common. Take a Look at our DLO we made to teach others how to identify the lowest common multiple.