Reading Numbers up to a Trillion

In class this week we have been learning about Reading numbers up to a trillion, (e.g 25 365 998) which is 25 million 365 thousand 998.
When you are reading number such as 22387654 you will break them into their  houses like this 22,387,654. the houses names are trend setter,thousands,millions and billions and so on.The trend setter house has the ones tens and hundreds kept in it.The thousands has the all the thousands in it.and millions has all the millions etc..
When i separated the numbers earlier it makes it easier to read because i separated in the houses.

Also we have been learning to put numbers on and take them off the number (e.g 22887542 If i were to take 1 off it would be 22887541) and adding 100 would be 22887442.1000 after would be 22886542.

 I personally found it quite easy to read numbers and add and subtract of the number.But when i started i found it very hard,but since i have learnt about separating the numbers into their groups.

My Learning

Hi everyone My names Shanelle.

I like to play netball,I like to draw and design things.

I like to learn in nice quiet spaces because i just get distracted.And i get things done faster and easier.

My strengths are my decimals and around the maths area,I am very good at reading long paragraphs and things like that.I need help with writing,I find it hard to support my ideas with detail and techniques,my writing isin’t that interesting.I am good at spelling,but need to learn more vocab.

Cope- Curiosity,open mindedness,persistance

All of them have to be used the be a good learner.when using curiosity you be brave and ask questions when you dont understand,being curious helps you learn.when you are being open minded you are open to suggestions and open to different learning.persistance is when you never give up and keep going,but if you need help to need to ask as well.I try to use all of them all the time but i struggle with curiousity and asking questions.

My teacher (Mr A) could help me by giving me paper work (for homework) because i seem to get it done faster with no fuss. My parents could help me by looking at my blog more often.

I love to learn writing techniques because i love writing and its also learning.I love to learn more vocab because i learn new words to put in my writing to make it more powerful.

In 2014 I learnt a lot more about maths and decimals.I learnt heaps of writing techniques (e.g show not tell,PEE paragraphs and others..) I improved a lot with vocabulary I learned a heap of new words.

This year I would like to work on my times tables more often and learn all the tables & division.I would like to write more complex texts and add more ideas to make it powerful.I would like to learn more in maths to expand my learning in maths.

Balloon Powered Car

This is a text about my groups balloon powered car. In our class we have a system in class called W.I.T (wildy important task), and we have subject to make,design and research about them. We have groups In W.I.T and the people in my group are Abbie & Emily. When we have researched,designed and tested we compete and see who’s car goes the furtherest. Using the scientific method to help us along the way.

My groups balloon powered car is made out of polystyrene,milk bottle lids and the balloon/straw. We used those materials because we saw a successful car and made a new design with it.

When we tested our design and it originally went about 13m.It was a successful car.

Then we changed something ( which i don’t know what) and the car started to turn. The car had a lot of speed but turned around in circles. Now we are discussing what has happened

When we had the competition our car went really fast but turned again and ended up going 6.13m until it turned. We were proud but we were a bit disappointed with our total because it usually goes 13m.

Our questions were:

What is the scientific method?

What is a fair test?

What do balloon powered car look like/designs?

What is friction?

what does forces mean?

what are the best forces for a balloon powered car?

What mass does the balloon powered car have to be to go the furthest distance?

What does hypothesis mean?

To validate the questions we look up a source and find an answer,Then we search another source And find their answer.Then also search another source to triple check your understanding.

If one answer was different you would search up another source to see what one is correct.

In our group we were answering What the scientific method was and we looked in images and saw an answer.Then we looked on youtube and found a video called the scientific method rap and watched it.It turned out that the video and steps were different to the image.At that point we had to search again.It turns out that the scientific method rap was just for looks it was completely wrong.

Thats the importance of validating!

decimal learning

We are learning to:

Explain what decimals actually are and how they link to fractions and percentages.

decimals are part of a whole

on the left side of the dot is the whole,and the right side is the decimals (parts of the whole).
the dot in the decimal seperates the whole number and the parts of the whole.

these are deci pipes we use them to make the decimal and its easy to explain.

this is the whole and if you look at the tenths,hundredths and thousandths

it makes sense they all take up other 10,100,1000 because they get smaller and smaller!

these are tenths that are just after the decimal point e.g = 2.3 the 3 is a tenth. i tenth is called a tenth because ten of them make a whole. below is a picture of the deci pipe tenths if you look it looks like a whole and it is because there are ten tenths and 10 tenths make a whole! 

now above are hundredths and they are after the tenths e.g 2.34 the 4 is the hundredths.hundredths are called hundredths because a 100 if them make a whole!

now these are thousandths and they are after the hundredths like this e.g - 2.345 the 5 is the thousandths. a thousand thousandths make a whole!

tenths

Read and identify decimals to two decimal places.

reading decimals is a piece of cake!

so here is an example- 7.167

so you would say- seven point one six seven

you never say-seven point 1 hundred and sixty-seven because the are completely different and you don't join them together.

Order decimals to three places, for examples, 6.25 and 6.3
3.946
2.669
now look at the whole number - the top one has 3 wholes,9 tenths,4 hundredths and 6 thousandths.
and the bottom has- 2 wholes,6 tenths,6 hundredths and 9 thousandths.

compare the wholes:
3-2 which one is bigger? = 3 wholes

compare the tenths:
9-6 which one is bigger? = 9 tenths

compare the hundredths:
6-4 which one is bigger? =6 hundredths

compare the thousandths:
9-6 which one is bigger? = 9 thousandths


now look at what whole is bigger.
since one whole is bigger it audomatically makes the 3.946 bigger
but if they had the same whole you would go to the tenths if they had the same tenths go to the hundredths and so on......


By: Shanelle

my kite

For te ara tika we had to make a kite that was aerodynamic,durable,light weight etc….

My kite is made out of paper mache because it is strong and if you don’t put too much layers your kite can be strong and lightweight!I have folded the edges of my kite and attached two bits of string,because putting two bits of string on its easier to control your kite.

My kite is a diamond shape because diamond shaped kites are aerodynamic because i have researched and validated on the internet.

I have folded the edges of my kite and attached two bits of string,because putting two bits of string on its easier to control your kite.

one of the decisions i have made for my kite is how many layers the paper mache i would have.Also another decision was how big my kite was going to be because it would depend on how well your kite is going to fly because if you have a really small kite it probably won’t fly very well.

Gravel Movenote

Gravel Movenote

Bean Bag add

here is a Add that we did in class ( dont go to farmers this is not actually true!)
enjoy!!!!

https://www.movenote.com/v/8VQqdrhbk5iOB