Olympic Maths Challenge

 LI: to use the most efficient strategies to find answers. 

Here is my second Olympic Maths Challenge. For this activity I created a DLO explaining my strategy and answers to the solution. I also created a screencastify video for a more depth explanation about my strategy. This question was based off an olympian star swimmer Michael Phelps. There were 2 questions: 

How many metres did Michael swim for his gold medals?

If Michael swam 2m each stroke, how many strokes did Michael take in total?

The most efficient strategy for me for this question was addition and simple division. 

 

Superfingers Challenge

 LI: to recall our time tables quickly.

Our focus for this activity was based around recalling our time tables fast. The objective of the game was to remember our time tables and say them quick. To play this game, we pick a word and roll two dice that go up to 12. After doing so, we look at the dice and multiply the numbers. If one of the dice roll on 6 and the other on 3, we go 6x3 and say the answer (18) as fast as we can. The person who gets the answer correct fastest, erases one letter from the word. In the end, if you answer the equations and have no letters left, you are announced the winner.

First, we chose a partner to challenge. Whoever won out of the pair gets to challenge another person who won from their pair. The person who won that goes onto the quarter finals, then the semi-finals and then the finals. The person who won the finals is the winner and fastest person to recall their time tables. Afatia won the finals against Chris. I enjoyed this activity a lot because it was fun and also got us to recall our time tables faster. 

Violet Walrond Y Chart (Inference)

L.I to make inferences about the events in the text using clues provided by the author.

 

Our focus this week in Reading was about Violet Walrond. 

Violet Walrond was the first female new zealand representatives in the swimming industry. She played in the 1920 Antwerp Olympics at the age of 15 years of age and was the youngest competitor. She was also one of the firsts in New Zealand to ever use the crawl technique, which had grew a lot of attention around NZ. Violet started winning competitions at a the age of 12 years old, and her father was also her coach; as he did get gifted the Royal Humane Society award, for saving 11 people from drowning. 

In this activity we were required to complete this Y chart, that concluded me looking at a image and inferring from a question. The question that was asked was “What will happen when time unfreezes”. Sulia and I worked collaboratively together to complete this task. For us to get a better understanding of the context, we were acquired to read a passage about Violet Walronds life.

We really enjoyed this activity because we learnt apart of NZ history. 

Flow charts and Radio chats

LI: to understand how flowcharts relate to coding blocks

LI: to understand how to get the microbit to talk to another microbit using radio signals 

Here is my flowchart practise document. 

Flowchart Practise

The next activity today was coding the microbit to send a radio signal to another microbit. We had to make sure that both microbits were on the same group number so we didn't accidentally get a message from another group.

Medal Tally

 LI: to use the most efficient strategies to find answers. 

This week Vayan, Lukah, Bella and I have created a DLO explaining our strategy and answers for a certain maths problem. The maths problem that we have chosen was based off of the olympic medal totals for each country. Using information from 2 different charts of Medal statistics we found out the current top 10. I have made a screencastify video explaining my strategy. 

Should host countries have to spend so much money on building the Olympic venues?

LI: To use provocation to understand both sides of a story.

 

 Our focus this week for reading was based on the Olympics & provocation. We used provocation to understand both side of the question asked. The question was should host countries spend so much money on building the Olympic venues? Our opinion was that host countries should not spend a massive amount of money on the olympics, since the former buildings used to host the olympics. We think that the billions of dollars used to other countries are facing difficult times. I found this task interesting because seeing both side of the story meant different people see the story with different opinion.

3 Matariki Birds

LI: Name, draw and describe 3 birds that are part of the Matariki harvest. 

Matariki was celebrated at the end of the harvest season.  It was a time when the pātaka kai (storage house) was full of food. There was kūmara, kererū and fish such as moki and korokoro. During the celebration, there were big Hākari (feasts). 

In the DLO above, Lukah, Chris, Taua and I made a presentation about 3 birds that are eaten as apart of the harvesting during the matariki season. The three birds we found information about was the Tui, Kaka, and Kereru. Using our smart re-searching skills we found different pieces of information about each of the birds, fun fact; Early European colonists called tui the parson bird or mockingbird; however, these names are no longer used. We each digitally drew our 3 different birds. We also talked about how the 3 birds were caught to eat during the matariki season. 

Matariki Stars

 LI: To strengthen our connections to Matariki.

This DLO was desgined to understand the Matariki Stars celebration that's going on this week. We completed this by working collaborativtely together and understanding what,why,who and the matariki stars are. We also started being creative and drawing our own stars. By creating this DLO we used our searching skills and looked through websites to find facts and information about the Matariki stars. Matariki takes place eahc year when the cluster of the stars knowen as Matariki. The new year is a time of new beginnings and is a time to embrace the trandtions. To strengthen our connections to Matariki we had a choice of research activities. I enjoyed this activty as I learnt more information about the Maori Cultures. 

Coding in Python

  LI: To Learn how to code the Microbot in the Phyton.

For this example for coding the buttons , the main thing to notice is the "def" which is defining what the on_button_pressed will make to microbit do. Again this has a top and bottom so the content has to go inside it. 

The first one shows the Phyton coding for flashing heart. It flashes between a small heart icon and a large heart Icon. The main thing to notice between the Phython coding and the blocks is the the forever loop is the top and bottom of the content in both.