The Great Marble Challenge

In Te Ngahere we have been doing a activity called STEAM (an abbreviation for science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics). Our task is to create a ramp (made with classroom objects) for a marble to roll down. It might seem easy but the challenge is for the marble to stop at exactly 110 cm (1.1m) and we aren’t able to put anything in front of the 110 mark to stop the marble. We were able to select our groups for this project. My partner was Anyah. This activity is super fun!  I think we did well working together and communicating but what we need to work on is not changing variables (a variable is when a modification is made, which changes your result/outcome) all the time.

Math DLO

For the past week, Te Ngahere have been creating DLO’s to show what we have learnt in maths (doubling and halving and trebling and thirding). Mine and my partners WALT (Missy was my buddy) was to solve more complex multiplication problems using trebling (multiplying) and thirding (dividing) to simplify difficult equations making it easier to solve. I think I did well working with Missy and collaborating to get our DLO complete. I think we could work on using the arrays better because we had a little trouble.