Archive for the ‘2B4’ Category

9th Jan 2009

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Today we are learning to … create statistics.

Page 48, Ex3A - ques. 1c, 2a, 5a

HOMEWORK for Tuesday 13.01.09:

Long multiplication (no calculators)

1) 87 x 39        2) 43 x 28        3) 93 x 57        4) 35 x 49

8th Jan 2009

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Today we are learning to … create statistics.

Recorded our heights, Block 2 Core score, favourite football team and MidYIS prediction.

Page 43, Looking Back – ques. 1, 3, 4, 5

7th Jan 2009

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Today we are learning to … create statistics.

Discussed how unreliable some statistics can be, looked at some statistics from the media and talked about the best way to gather data.

6th Jan 2009

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Today we are learning to … improve our response to assessments.

Working in groups, we made up ‘perfect solutions’ to the Block 2 Basic assessment. 

Today we are learning to … create statistics.

Discussed how statistics can be misleading and watched a clip from “yes, Prime Minister” (The Ministerial Broadcast).

19th Dec 2008

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Today we are learning to … use maths to win at games.

Played Mathsopoly.

 

18th Dec 2008

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Today we are learning to … use “nets” to make 3D objects.

Used nets of cones and cubes to make Christmas characters and parcels.

 

17th Dec 2008

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Today we are learning to … apply our knowledge to assessments.

Sat the Block 2 Core assessment.

16th Dec 2008

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Today we are learning to … convert measurements (e.g. 1kg = 1000g).

Looked at units of weight (mass).

Sat the Block 2 Basic assessment.

12th Dec 2008

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Today we are learning to … convert measurements (e.g. 1 litre = 1000ml)

Page 121, Ex3A - ques. 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9

Page 122, Ex3B - ques. 2

11th Dec 2008

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Today we are learning to … convert measurements (e.g. cm to m).

Page 114, Ex1A – ques. 3, 4, 5, 10, 11 (lengths)

Page 115, Ex1B/C – ques. 2, 3 (perimeter)

Page 117, Ex2A – ques. 1, 3 (area)

Page 119, Ex2C – ques. 5, 6 (area)