Thursday, August 15, 2013

Rimu


Year 5/6/7

Johnny had $50 he was told to buy 2 loaves of bread, 3 bottles of milk and 3 packets of chips. A loaf of bread cost $2.10, a bottle of milk $3.15 and a packet of chips $1.80.

A)  How much did he spend? 

B) How much change did he get?

Rimu

Year 3/4


If you can type 24 words in 1 minute how many words can you type in 3 hours and 20 minutes.

Rimu

Year 2

If you had to share 32 apples with 8 children. How many apples will each child get?

Rimu

Year 1

If John had 15 oranges and he ate 4 oranges. How many oranges does he have left now?

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Rimu Whanau


Year 5/6/7


Peterson had $20 he was told to buy bread, milk and toilet paper.  It all
cost $9.36.

How much change did he get?

Rimu Whanau

Year 3/4

1. If Tim had $10 to spend at the Gala and he bought a candy floss for $1.50,  had a ride on the bikes for $3.25 and a lucky dip for $1.10. 

A) how much has he spent?
B) how much change does he get?


Rimu Whanau

Year 1

Jim had 10 apples and he gave 3 apples to his friend. How many apples does he have left?

Rimu Whanau



Year 2

Peter had 25 lollies. He wanted to share the lollies with his 5 friends. How can he share the lollies equally?

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Fun Fact

Do you know any maths fun facts?

Karaka

Year 7 - 

If I had $5 to spend on drinks at the Geek disco - for 1 dozen 250ml cans it costs $5.00 and a 2 litre bottle costs $2.50. Which one would I buy?

Karaka

Year 5/6 - 

I pulled 28 jelly beans out of a bag, 6 red, 14 blue, 8 green. What fraction were red, green, blue?

Karaka

Year 3/4 - 

If I had $10 to go to the tuck shop and I brought 1 pie for $1.70, 2 cookies for $2, and a moosie for $1.20. a) how much does it cost? b) how much change do I get?

Karaka

Year 2 

If I had 27 sausages shared between 3 children. How many sausages does each child get?

Karaka Whanau

Year 1 

If there were 3 trees and 2 apples on each tree, how many apples altogether?

Fun fact:

Monday, August 12, 2013

Kowhai Whanau


Children are free to post any fun maths facts.


Year 1&2: 

If we had 12 children in Room 4 and got 6 more. How many would there be altogether?

Fun Fact: 


Year ¾:

How many children in the Kowhai team? Estimate and show you worked out your estimate.

Fun Fact:


Year 5/6/7: 

Sonia ran her race in 32.6 seconds. Her second attempt was 36.1 seconds. What is the difference between these attempts? Write this as a fraction. 

Fun Fact:

Friday, August 9, 2013

Maths Week 2013


What's on for this year's Maths Week.

It is Maths Week from next week. New and exciting things happening throughout the week. Lots of exciting things has been organised. Get blogging everyday. Movie competitions, grand estimations, Mathex , blogging, maths rotations and many more things happening.  Also this year the students can post some fun maths facts like: did you know???? So keep on watching this space.......