Thursday 14 August 2014

Maths Week - Day 4 Problems

Here are your challenges for today:

Junior Problem:

Joseph makes a train from a green rod, a yellow rod and a black rod.   Nate makes his train from a green rod, a black rod and a blue rod?  Who has the longest train?  (You will need to use Cuisenaire rods to help you with this problem)

Senior Problem:

Mr Dawson is organising the Year 7&8 ki-o-rahi tournament. Mr Dawson has 156 cones, and each game requires twelve cones.  How many ki-o-rahi games can Mr Dawson run at the same time?

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Students: Write your answer in the comment section with your name and class.
Teachers: If you have any photos of student thinking please email to Miss Breen 

Come back tomorrow for new challenges!

Here is a photo of some student thinking/strategies from room 9 today:



Thinking from room 7 today:




Tina's thinking from room 8:



4 comments:

  1. R17 had a go at the senior problem!!!
    Meliana and Jahvarn worked out that 12 x 10 = 120 and 3 x 12 = 36 so together that makes 13 games of Ki o rahi!!!
    we think R17 are cool because we are year 4 and we can do year 7/8 maths !!

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    1. I agree Rm 17 you are cool! well done on using your multiplication and place value knowledge to solve the problem! Keep up the great work

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  2. you guys are good at maths gee great I mean it its just like you know great

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