Friday 27 May 2016

Math Skillz- Finding A Percentage Of A Number

Our group have been learning finding the percentages of a number and we have learnt what to do.

The of the questions are:

12% of 80                       120% of 46

27% of 64                       138% of 57

82% of 205                     270% of 80


12% of 80 is 9.6             120% of 46 is 55.2

27% of 64 is 17.28          138% of 57 is 78.66

82% of 205 is 168.1          270 of 80 is 216


Basically its the percentage takeaway the number like 64% of 90 is 57.6 because its 64 x 0.90 = 57.6. But if you have a question like 48% of 291 = 48 x 2.91 which is 139.68 so it's actually really easy.

Friday 13 May 2016

Diary Post 4

Now that we are in term 2 we have stopped our art and stuff like that and we are now doing a new inquiry which is space!  On our inquiry launch day we watched Wall-E which was about the humans living in outer space with the robots cleaning up on earth since it was too dirty, but the plan failed and the humans on the ship had no idea, Until Wall-E met EVE and both of them got the humans back to start a new life.

On the chrome-books (another kind of computer) we have been sent a presentation with sentences saying what we had to do and so far i have done the first 2 and I am now doing the third one.  The one I am doing now is writing a list of facts about a planet and I chose Jupiter as the planet I will be writing facts about.

In math we will be doing stuff about fractions due to the fact that most of the class is not that confident at doing fractions, so me and my friend cameron were playing a game recommended by a website our teacher sent us until the teacher said me and cameron to join the math skills group where they teach themselves which means I get a promotion yay!

We used to have Youth-Town to teach us skills like teamwork and play games with us for P.E but now they have stopped and moved to doing the juniors P.E teaching them some skills so I joined the school netball team and at lunchtime play I ether play netball, basketball or rarely cops and robbers.

Next week is week 3 for term 2 and we will probably do more of the art project which I forgot the name of what it was and we will do more work and stuff like that so I think that without Youth-Town brain breaks will be a lot funner so yeah it's not that fun anymore.