Year 6 - 9 Maths
Year 6-7 started this term planning, calculating and researching their dream holiday. Students were given a number of challenging tasks: pricing flights, accommodation, budgeting for food and planning and budgeting for their activities. They also had to timetable their trip and plan their budget and were also introduced to the currency exchange concept.
This term students completed a number of different tasks. They studied ratio and calculated ratio related to everyday problems. The year 7 students also worked on the order of operation, with good results. Another area of learning was the relationship between capacity and volume. They had the opportunity to use the experiment to visualise the connection between the capacity of an object and the volume of the object. This helped them to gain a better understanding of that relationship. They also had to use correct units to calculate the capacity vs volume- L, ml vs cm3.
The most challenging and engaging task for students was to design their own dream home and apply their new gained knowledge of 3D shapes to construct the 3D representation of that design. This task demanded from students the development of connections between 2D and 3D shapes by creating the nets and buildings 3D shape from a 2D drawing. Students also learned how to calculate volume and apply the prescribed formulas using correct units of measurement.
The task below is to challenge the students even more and to teach them how to solve the problem using the knowledge that they already have. Please encourage your students to try to solve the given problems and bring their solution to school.
Try to solve it, have a go …
Hi – you have the knowledge to solve it - just apply what you already know.
Hint: with the middle of the rectangle area is: 4 x X = 20cm2 Think what is opposite of the multiplication to din X
20cm2 look what you already know? Then apply the area formula in reverse to find out missing side.
Now you can continue ………..
Year 8 - 9 Maths Challenge
The Year 8s and Year 9s worked with great enthusiasm on the park planning task. Students enjoyed the challenge and they mostly succeeded with good results. They had been given a budget, and they needed a plan that was drawn to scale and calculate the cost. Students had to take into consideration the use of the park in their design and provide facilities for these users, by thinking about a given budget. The park planning task was designed to allow students to use their problem-solving skills and apply their knowledge as well to learn new knowledge of budgeting and working to the given scale.
In year 9 the biggest challenge was to learn about Pythagoras theorem. It is a complex geometrical concept for students to learn. I am very pleased that our year 9 student worked very hard to master this important area of knowledge. Year 9 and Year 8 students also this term were given different challenging tasks to learn how to apply this knowledge to solve the given problem. Students learned more about angles, geometry problems and sorting quadrilaterals. They often struggled with how to solve the given problems and how to think “outside the box” using what they knew. However, I am very pleased that most problems were solved with great success. Well done.
Hi Year 8 and Year 9 Please try to solve this problem below
It demands from you a little more thinking – you can do it.
Hint: carefully analyse what you know about area calculation and analyse the drawing - look at what you already know from the drawing and what needs to be found.
Looking forward to see your answers. Good luck