Best selling author Scott Flansburg has been teaching maths and entertaining people with his astonishing math skills for more than 20 years. Today was our day to be entertained and inspired by ”The Human Calculator’.
Scott was visiting to help promote the Commonwealth Bank Australian Maths Challenge – 31 August to 1 September 2010.
The challenge will [...]
Archives for Maths
Special Guest: Scott Flansburg (Mathletics)
category: Maths
It won’t happen again like this until the year 2040!! Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn
People often express surprise that you can see planets without a telescope. The planets Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn are easily visible to the unaided eye in the evening twilight and early evening of the western sky (Sunday 8th August to 14th Saturday). The image below is useful for the whole week to show where the four [...]
category: Maths
Treasure Hunt: Location (Mathematics)
This week in class we are learning a few things to do with Location. To help us get started we will be doing Google Street View Treasure Hunt.
The google image below is a an interactive map starting from Macquarie St in Sydney, near the Opera House. Click on the white square in the top right hand [...]
category: Maths
tags: Location, Mathematics
Pro-Bots and programming in Logo
In Week 7 and 8 this term we will be having a go at using Pro-Bots. Pro-Bots are the big brother to the bee bots that K-2 used earlier in the year. A Pro-Bot is basically a car that you can program using the Logo programming language.
To help you get started you can play the [...]
Honour Assembly
Today we celebrated the success of students from K-6 in the area of Mathematics: Space. In 4R we have many students who could have easily won an award, unfortunately I was only able to pick two. Congratulation to everyone who has tried hard this year!!
During the Honour Assembly the Concert Band, approximately 50% from 4R, [...]
category: Maths, Performing Arts
World Maths Day – 3rd March
World Maths Day is on NOW! Can we unite to break the world record?
CONGRATULATION EVERYONE ON YOUR WONDERFUL EFFORT
YOU ANSWERED ALMOST 30 000 QUESTIONS CORRECTLY
This year features an exciting new format with multi-levels for all age groups. Can we beat last year’s world record of almost 2 million students from 204 countries correctly answering [...]
Who Stole the Anzac Cookie from the Cookie Jar?
This is a very difficult puzzle: There are five people – Holly, Cameron, Julieanne, Alex and Jackie. Each one stole a special cookie of their favourite brand which was kept in a jar. Each person ate it in a particular place and drank their flavoured milk with it.
Jackie is next to the person who eats [...]
tags: Maths, Problem Solving
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