Well, what a week this has been! We have navigated our way through an incredible maze, collecting crystals as we face a a week full of Mathematical challenges… Overcoming obstacles we have worked as a team and collected crystals for our resilience, teamwork and application of Maths… On some day we have even earnt rewards for our communication and creativity! We have travelled the world and looked at the Maths and famous Mathematicians from Greece, Egypt, India and China, Isn’t it incredible how one person’s mind can solve problems for the rest of the world? Each and everyone of us has laughed in the face of adversity this week and shown true grit; some of the problems that we have solved have been so tricky but I am proud of you all for never giving up! Well done for a WILD maths week this week 6 White!
Pythagoras – a true genius that has impacted the way we view shape today! What a way to start the week. We began today looking at his theories and why he is still so important today, then we then we investigated geometric patterns. We had to visualise and identify patterns while exploring connections between multiples. Some of us took it one step further and began using our algebra skills! Incredible! Another investigation saw us explore whether there are an infinite number of primes. We decided that these mathematicians were so important that we had to paint them too! Look at our fab outcomes!
Who knew Ancient Egyptian maths was so advanced? We certainly did We looked at hieroglyphics and solved problems with symbols and not numbers. We then moved on to looking at the volume of pyramids – did you know, the volume of a pyramid is 1/3 of a cube with the same base and height? We constructed our own cuboids to double check this theory – turns out it really is true! It’s safe to say that 6 White have a new found love for fractions too. We spent the afternoon competing for crystals and using fractions the ‘Egyptian Way’ and great fun was had by all! Challenge: Could you tell me what a hieroglyphic is? Which number was represented by a God?
Well, Mandarin is certainly an interesting language! We started the day learning how to count in Mandarin and learning how they show numbers on their fingers! We created some fab double page spreads on Liu Hui: a chinese mathematician that changed the world of Geometry. In response to this we began to investigate 2D and 3D shapes. We studied irregular and regular poygons too. Challenge: Could you tell me what makes a polygon ‘regular’?
Did you know that it was in Ancient India that the number 0 was first ever used! It was at this point that the concept of zero was created alongside negative numbers. Today we faced a challenge involving the addition of negative numbers and it truly had us stumped. We went on to continue challenging ourselves by looking at super complex looking sums – turns out that they just involved a lot of indices and we could finish them quicker than we thought! Challenge: What happens when we subtract a negative number? For example, 2 – – 3 =
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