Drop, Cover, Hold

New Zealand shakeout will be taking place on the 15th of October 2015 at 9:15 am. New Zealand will be the first country to participate this year. New Zealand shakeout is a national earthquake drill taking place all over the country. It’s a chance for people to practise for the real thing. You always have to be prepared for an earthquake because New Zealand is one of the worst places for earthquakes to hit and could leave serious damage. The whole of New Zealand will be doing it. So don’t forget to DROP,COVER,HOLD.

Estimation

Estimating

Walt: Estimate

On Tuesday Megan and I made a chain out of coloured paper. First we had to discuss how we were going to cut it to make it long. We decided to cut it width wise so we had a lot of paper strips. We all got two sheets of paper Red and Green.

Next, we measured it out and cut the strips 1 cm each piece. We made a pattern 2 red then 2 green all the way. I was cutting while Megan was gluing it together.

Then, I started helping Megan finish the chain. I started at one end and Megan did the other end.

I wanted to make it red, green but everyone else was doing it so we did our own way.

Later we got a total of 170 cm I thought it could go longer. We could of cut the strips smaller to make it longer but we left it at 1 cm.

I enjoyed making the chain. My favourite bit was connecting all the strips. At the end I wore it like a necklace most of the mornings. I hope we get to make another one again.

Length of chains

Length of chains

Walt: 
1. Arrange length in order.

2. Find mean, median, mode, range.

3. explain the differences in length.

Pairs	Length of Chain in centimetres
Viliami and Howard	383
Munokoa and Samuel	320
Petuana and Yazmin	304
Stephanie and Cherish	286
Ketura  and Serena	220
Andrea and Lana	200
Alyssa and Shanelle	192
Ifa and Tane	192
Lorenzo and Liam	170
Lauren and Megan	170
Wesley and Koliata	169
Ben and Dion	86

The mean is 229.3

The median is 200.

The mode is 192.

The range is 297.

I think the longest chain would be Viliami and Howard’s because their chain came up to a total of 383 cm and 3.83 m. I think it is because it was the way they cut their strips. Majority of the class cut it width wise and they went lengthwise. Ben and Dion’s one was the smallest because their chain was 86cm long. They cut width wise and they cut it very thick. That’s the differences.  

 

Jonah Lomu

Bamzooki - Maths

Walt: Mean, Median, Mode and Range

This is my score that I got. I got 300 for the first stage and 600 on the last stage. I kind of enjoyed this game because it helped me to understand strand a lot easier now. I thought I would fail the game cause I kept on getting it wrong. The thing I wanted to improve on was the Range. I was a little bit confused about it because I had no sound on it. The on I found the easiest is Mean and the median because I had to calculate all the data then divided it by how many numbers there were. The Median is the middle number so that was easy to find. I want to play more games like this but a little more challenging.

Reading - e asttle results

Walt: Reflect on my e asttle

This is my e asttle results that I got in my reading. I’m very happy with my results that I got. My score that I got was a 4p. I am above the national standard. I wasn’t expecting to get such a high score. The reason how I got my result is that I read the question and carefully chose the one I though was right.  

Maths - E asttle results

This is my e asttle maths results. I got a 3p and i thought it was quite good result. I didn't know much of it but I tried my best. I looked at the questions but didn't understand much of it. I hope next time I can improve to get a higher score.

Geometric Tranformations

This is the game that I played using all these selections. I got up to level 9 and there’s 18 levels so I was half way. I thought this game was fun and helps me with my strand. I was shocked that I got up to level 9. I hope there is other games that we can practice like this.

Foil art

Last week Friday we did art with tin foil. We had to draw with our blunt pencils to make the design. We had to then do it with a bold marker and then write there names. My one mistake is that I gave Kevin one eye not two. I hope we can do this again.

Double Bar Graph Rm 11

Walt: use online tools to draw a double bar graph.

Watched Didn’t Watch

B:10 B:3

G:5 G:7

My class and I made this double bar graph each. The students in room 11 had a show of hands to see who watched it and who didn’t. We use the show of hands to show how many boys and girls watched the RWC final and how many didn’t watch the RWC final. In the data I collected there were more boys than girls who watched the game and more girls didn’t watch the game than the boys. I think boys watch rugby more than girls is that girls don’t have much interest in it. They might have no TV or Sky to watch it on. The closest person to the score was Robin his prediction was 32 - 17.