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Thursday 19 June 2014

Addition/ Subtraction consolidation

Squares/Triangles
Add/Sub W6

Andrea collects 73 Skittles. Andrea's father gives Andrea 56 more. How many Skittles does Andrea have? `120

Joshua has 62 cards. Christina has 64 cards. If Christina gives all of her cards to Joshua, how many cards will Joshua have? 126

If there are  266 pencils in a box and Bridget puts 44 more pencils inside, how many pencils are in the box? 11704

Harold has 153 marbles. He gets 16 more from Steve. How many marbles does Harold have in all?  172

If there are 79 blocks in a box and Christine puts 15 more blocks inside, how many blocks are in the box? 94

Subtraction

Denise removes 5 bananas from a jar. There were originally 46 bananas in the jar. How many bananas are left in the jar? 41

Arthur removes 29 pencils from a jar. There were originally 187 pencils in the jar. How many pencils are left in the jar? 52

Joyce starts with 275 apples. She gives 59 to Larry. How many apples does Joyce end with?
216
Rachel removes 47 bottle caps from a jar. There were originally 283 bottle caps in the jar. How many bottle caps are left in the jar? 236

Michael weighs 87 kilograms. Douglas weighs 52 kilograms. How much heavier is Michael than Douglas?  37

Pentagons Continue

Anne had 65 cents. She found 25 cents on the sidewalk. She bought a bag of chips for 55 cents. How much money did Anne have then?35

Jeff had 58 stickers.He used 16 of them this morning. He gave 10 to his friend Ed.How many stickers did Jeff have then?  32
The movie theater has 95 seats.51 children and 24 adults went to the early show. How many seats were empty?  20

Trevor did his math homework for 16 minutes. He did his spelling homework for 12 minutes.He practiced the piano for 15 minutes. How much more time did Trevor spend doing homework? 43 minutes

Angela spent the day at the beach.She saw 12 children swimming in the ocean.  15 children were playing in the sand. 20 children were splashing in the pool.
How many children did Angela see at the beach? 47

There were 24 sailboats and 25 motor boats in the harbor. 13 boats sailed out to sea.
How many boats remained in the harbor? 62

Monica's father cooked 20 hamburgers. Kurt's dad cooked 38 hamburgers. 45 hamburgers were eaten. How many hamburgers were left?12

The Happy Habitat had 21 koala bears.
They had 15 panda bears.
11 bears were moved to another zoo.
How many bears were left? 25

Sparky had 28 balls.
He buried 10 in the garden and 6 behind the garage.
How many balls did Sparky have left? 12

Brett made a bowl of Lucky Letters cereal.
He counted 57 consonants and 22 vowels.
After eating some cereal, he counted only 35 letters.
How many letters did Brett eat? 22

Alphabet addition

Wednesday 4 June 2014

Fr/dec/% Year 7

WALT use the 'Part Unknown' strategy to compare amounts.

Tuesday 3 June 2014

Faaiua And Calvin Science Experiments

Name: Faaiua And Calvin


Title of experiment: Straw oboe experiment

Question:
(What do we want to find out?)
We want to find out if the oboe straw will make a funny noise. We also need to find out if the pitch goes higher or lower when we cut the holes in the straw. We also need to find out what is making the noise?? Plus we want find out what makes the straw lower when we add the straw on each straw.


Hypothesis:  (what do you think will happen?)
I think that the straw is going to make the funny noise and when we cut the tiny holes the pitch is going to go higher.
Procedure:
How will we find out?
(Step by step)
First step : flatten the back or front end.
Second step : cut the front or the back of the straw but make sure the end is pointy.
Third step : Blow the into the straw as hard as you can and it will make a funny noise if it doesn't that means you're not blowing hard enough or you cut it wrong.
Extra for experts : make little tiny holes in your straw and play it like a Saxophone or an flute.

Results:
What actually happened?
Once we got our straws, we flattened the end of the straw. After we got the scissors, we pierced through the flattened end and then when we unflattened the end of the straw. It looked very good. I held it up and then inserted it on my mouth. We blew as hard as I can into the pierced part. It did not work...... We blew again and guess what..... IT WORKED!!. Couple of minutes after everyone did it which then went annoying. But it still works.
Conclusions:
What did we learn?
I learnt a lot of stuff today. The first thing I learnt to make was an oboe straw. Second thing I learnt was that the vibration of air tubes is the mechanism for sound production in virtually all wind instruments. Plus when adjusted properly, the flattened of the straw will vibrate as air flows over them.

Questions:
1. What is producing the sound?
The air. Thats going inside the straw and the vibration of air tubes is the mechanism for sound production in virtually all wind instruments.

2. What pitch did we get when all holes were closed, compared to when the holes were open?  When the holes were closed the pitch was low. But when the holes were open it was annoying and high.

3. What does opening or closing a hole in the straw really mean in terms of vibrating an air column? When the holes are open and you blow it, the bottom of the straw is vibrating which travels out high sound waves. And when the holes are closed it still vibrates but it sends out low sound waves

Triangle Addition

Fr/dec/% Year 6

WALT identify whether a question requires me to use the Year 6 'Part Unknown' strategy or the Year 6 'Whole Unknown' strategy.