My Math Strategy

1. The world record for throwing a cellphone in 2012 was 102.68 metres. James attempted to beat the record but only managed to throw 97.89m. How much was he short by?

102.68 - 4.79 = 97.89

102.68 - 2.68 = 100.00

100.00 - 2 = 98

98 - .11 = 97.89

2.68 + 2 + .11 = 4.79

Sione uploaded a presentation to his blog but it was too big. In the HTML code he saw that the size was 920  pixels wide by  648 pixels high. He thinks if he reduces it to ¾ of the size it is, it should fit. What dimensions does he need to change in the HTML code?

230 pixels wide

920 divided by 4 =

(92 divided by 4 = 4 x 20 = 80  4 x 3 = 12 4 x 20 + 4 x 3 = 92)

4 x 200 = 800

4 x 30 = 120

4 x 200 + 4 x 30 = 920

230 x 4 = 920

162 pixels high

648 divided by 4 =

(64 divided by 4 = 4 x 10 = 40, 4 x 6 = 24, 4 x 10 + 4 x 6 = 64)

4 x 100 = 400

4 x 60 = 240

4 x 100 + 4 x 60 = 640

4 x 2 = 8

640 + 8 = 648

162 x 4 = 648

Tiaki is fixing part of his fence. The pickets he needs are .68m long each. How many metres of timber does he need to cut up 45 pickets?

If the timber comes in 5m lengths only what is the minimum amount of lengths he needs to have enough for 45 pickets?

The timber is $3.55/m. How much will he have spent?

Answer: 30.6

Strategy: 0.68 X ? = 45

0.68 X 10 = 6.8

40 = 27.2

0.68 X 5 = 3.4

27.2 + 3.4 = 30.6

Julia is an artist. She has been painting a huge mural for the town centre. For the main colour she used a 20 litre pail of white mixed with a 10 litre pail of blue. Unfortunately she ran out of paint before she finished the mural. She thinks that she will only need 6 more litres in total to finish. How much blue and white paint does she need to mix up to get the 6 litres of paint she needs that is exactly the same colour she has been using?

Strategy:

20 + 10 = 30
30 divided by 5 = 6
10 divided by 5 = 2
20 divided by 5 = 4
4 + 2 = 6

6 Litres in total

4 Litres of white

2 litres of blue

My Maths Strategy

1. The world record for throwing a cellphone in 2012 was 102.68 metres. James attempted to beat the record but only managed to throw 97.89m. How much was he short by?

Answer: 4.79

Strategy: 102.68 - 4.79 = 97.89

102.68 - 2.68 = 100.00

100.00 - 2 = 98

98 - .11 = 97.89

2.68 + 2 + .11 = 4.79

Future Aspirations

     On Thursday last week some  people came to our school. They came to tell us about our future aspirations. We started off in the hall all of the intermediate together and Andrew Patterson talked to us first and introduced us to the Visitors. Our visitors name’s are Mosa Mafileo, Emma Brown Tristan Pang, Aysha Hohaia and Caine Warren.  They all had interesting stories to tell us about themselves. They all came to tell us about their lives and they came to inspire us.

   Mosa Mafileo was the person who inspired me the most because he was funny to listen to and he had he hooked into what he had to say. Mosa is a very funny person and that’s what made his presentation awesome. When Mosa told us about his job I was shocked because at the age of 18 he is a politician who works for Len Brown as a youth adviser. As Mosa was talk he used a quote, “When you’re chasing your dream not only do you chase it, but you catch it.” Mosa Inspired me to chase after my dream. I would love to meet Mosa again in the future.

   The kind of business that my friend Kendrix wants when he becomes an adult is a cool business. He would like to own his own business that is cool and that makes a lot of money. He wants his business to be a fun business too. He also wants to have Sony or Apple products in his stores. Kendrix likes to play games aswell so he would sell video games, computer games and more fun and cool things like that..

My Strategy

In the hop, skip and jump (Triple Jump) the record for  men is 18.29m whereas the record for women is 15.5m. How much longer is the men’s record than the women’s.

Answer: 2.79

Strategy: 15.5 + .59 = 16.09

16.09 + 2 = 18.09

18.09 + .2 = 18.29

2 + .59 + .2 = 2.79

There are  8 boxes. Each box has 25 apples in it. How many apples are there altogether?

Answer: 200

Strategy:

8 x 25:

8 x 10 = 80

8 x 10 = 80

80 x 2 = 160

5 x 8 = 40

80 x 2 = 160 … 160 + 40 = 200

My Strategy

Trevor has to drive 422 km’s. He looks at his odometer and sees he has gone 289 kms. How much further has he got to go?

Answer: 133.

Strategy: Add 1 onto 289 = 290 … 290 + 10 = 300 … 300 + 100 = 400 … 400 + 22 = 422.

1 + 10 + 100 + 22 = 133

Narrative Practise

“.. The Planes ..”

   I felt a little bump as I was eating my lunch. “Please put your seat belts on for a few minutes” the captain announced. “Far, lunch was yummy!” I told my mother. As I turned to the side I noticed everybody looking out their windows, I wondered what was happening? “Ahhhhh, The wing is down, the wing is down!” someone screamed. “We’re going down, we’re going down” our captain announced. Everyone was screaming. BOOM!

   Radiation from the crash stuffed up my mind. I still tried to call for my mother. “Mum are you there?” I whispered. “Mummy, mummy.” I was crying. As I looked up there were sparks of fire.

I looked around and saw many exotic plants. I didn’t know where I was. Crawling around bodies everywhere I tried to find out what had happened “Raenan, Raenan call if you can hear me.” My dad was calling. “Dad I’m here. Where are you?” I replied. I crawled towards my dads voice.

My Game

   ^.~ Tetris started in 1984, June 6th.  Tetris is a world class game.  I started to play Tetris when I was about 7 years of age.  Now and then I play Tetris and it’s always interesting. I like to play Tetris because you use blocks to build something and then once you make a line of blocks, the line disappears.  Sometimes I rage when playing Tetris because I can never destroy the blocks and it makes me angry! -,-