Kia Manawanui Syndicate - Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu Collaboration Post

Good Morning Everybody! Today we had a special guest, our Manaiakalani facilitator, Ms Heather Collins. We were so excited to finally get our Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu blogging on the way but had to discuss our group norms first.

Ms Collins reminded us that as Cybersmart bloggers, it is important that our comments are reflective. Other than that it has to be positive, thoughtful and helpful. As a class, we had the opportunity to look at our buddy class's blogs to get a better idea of who they are. We really enjoyed this part as we got to share part of their learning journey thus far.

Next we put our teacher's typing skills to the test as we collaboratively created this blog by sharing our ideas and comments on a google doc. We found the google doc in our Cybersmarts Folder. The instructions were that we had to view and explore the class blogs of Group A and B. Thereafter we shared our comments with Mr Janse and had to wait for the green light before posting our comments.

We also had time to do a sort of scavenger hunt as we searched for the location of our buddy classes. Our buddy classes are in Christchurch and Greymouth. The last instruction was that we needed to do a reflective blog on what we had done today.

We thoroughly enjoyed this experience and can't for our next connection.

Exploring Algebraic Equations by Lydia Bloomfield

📘➕Algebra - Learning Something New in MATHS!➕📘

IALT: Solve an Algebraic Equations.

Malo E Lelei and welcome back to my blog! Today in Room 9 for Maths, I learned how to solve an Algebraic equation.

I asked Mr Janse to give me ANY equation and I thought he was going ask, "34 x 14" or "128 x 6" But instead he said, "2x + 14 = 80" and my job was to find the value of the 'x'. On my first attempt to solve this equation, I divided 80÷14 and Mr Janse said that's not quite correct yet. I was really confused so Mr Janse made it a bit easier and said, "Okay, the value of the 'x' is 33. Find out how and why?" This made it a lot easier and I looked at the equation and said the x is 33 because 33 x 2 = 66 and 66 + 14 = 80!" I was really happy that I had found the answer and Mr Janse then taught me how to formulate it. 

This is how you would write the answer to the equation:

There is supposed to be a dot/space between the 2 and 'x'. 

This looks like:

2.x

The dot means to multiply so basically you're multiplying                                         the 2 by the 'x'.

2.x + 14 = 80

What we're first trying to do is get rid of the 14 so to get rid of the 14 we have to subtract 14 away from 14 which equals 0. 

(14-14=0)

Then we have to do the same with the 80. For example:

2x = 80 - 14

When Mr Jay explained how to solve this he always wrote '2x =' before he would continue. This looks like:

2x = 66

Which also means 80-14=66

Next you have to divide 66÷2 which is the number before the x. This should look like:

2x = 66÷2

And then the answer will be the value of the 'x'.

x = 33

Wait! We're not done yet. The 33 will the become the substitute of the 'x' and this will make the equation:

2.33 + 14 = 80

Because:

2x33=66

66+14=80

I am really glad I learned how to solve Algebraic Equations and I am very happy that I was able to show Ako and teach Hevani and Grace how to solve these questions! One thing I need to work on is explaining WHY I have to always write 2x=, and WHAT does it do to the equation, but this just shows how much more I have to learn! 

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I can't wait to learn more about Algebra! I hope you have learned something!

QOB: 

Have you ever learned about Algebra? 

What is your favourite subject in school?

Thank you for reading this blog! Bye :)

Multiplying by Round and Compensating by Grace

✏️🔃!Maths - Rounding and Compencating!🔃✏️

WALT: Multiply using tidy numbers, rounding and compencating.

Bonjour and greetings to you all! Welcome to my blog!

Throughout this term for Maths I have learnt how to use rounding and compensating. This strategy was new to me so I was looking forward to learn more about it. We started by multiplying one digit number to a 2 digit number. With rounding you have to remember that when you are rounding up you compensate by subtracting the number and you do the same when you are rounding it down you compensate by adding. That is why it is important that you know your basic facts really well because once you know them it would help you even more in your maths.





Here is an example:

3 x 78= 234
  ( 80 x 3 - 3 x 2)
( 240 - 6)
=  234

So what I have done here is that I have rounded  78 to its nearest 10 which is 80 and to get to 80 I added 2. Then I multiplied 80 by 3 which equals 240. I know this because 8 x 3 = 24 , 24 x 10 = 240. The next step is that you multiplied 3 by 2. The reason why I did this is that whenever you compensating a number by adding and subtract and you are multiplying, you then multiply that number. After that you subtract the total that you got 240 and 6. Which equals 234. Like what I have said before when you are round up you then have to subtract.

I have enjoyed learning this method and knowing how easy it is to use it. Now I can use this to solve complicated questions/equations rather than using algorithm all the time. 
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I hope you enjoy this blogpost!
Feel free to comment down below!

Question of the Blog: Do you know how to round and compencate? Have you used this method before?

My Inspiration by Auckland

A role me who inspires me is Bill Gates.
He is a organised , hard worker and shows leadership when he works.

Bill is a organised man who is the founder of microsoft. He has been working for microsoft over 43 years. He is always focused on work and technology. An example of Bill being organised is that he plans to improve in making better technology by being always focused on his work. By being organised it helps you to finish work and be more organised next time.

Bill is a hardworking man who creates technology and works for microsoft.  He is a successful man. He is successful because he is a hardworking person who is always committed to his work. An example of bill being a hard worker is that he works for hours trying to improve his technology. By being a hard worker bill has continued to achieve many great and amazing things.

Bill is a man who shows lot of leadership. Bill is the owner of microsoft. Bills leadership helps microsoft produce lots of products. His leadership made his company sell millions of their products.An example of showing leadership is during a basketball team. A basketball team has a captain. The captain leads  your team to victory. But instead of that Bill leads his company to produce safe products. By showing leadership Bill carries on to become a very successful man.

In conclusion , showing  these key ideas can help you achieve great things in life. You can become successful. Maybe one day you might be the next bill gates.

             

Hevani's Learning Pathway for 2019

💡🤔Learning Journey Pathway🤔💡
WALT: descirbe and explain our learning pathway for the year.

Last week we started working on our learning jourmey pathway, we talked about what a pathway means and about our 5 goals that we have chosen to achieve for this year. I have already listed and chosen my 5 goals which are:
- To recieve dux
- Improve in Maths
- Be an active member and to participate more in group/class discussions
- Join EVERY sport for this year
- Become/be comfortable and confident

These are MY 5 goals that I will be working on for this year. I am hoping to achieve all 5 goals by the end of this year, we had to outline our hands onto A3 paper, inside our hand that is drawn onto the A3 paper we had to split into 5 differnt sections for us to draw symbols that represent each of our 5 goals. An example here is my hand:

And here is my learning journey pathway goals: 

Click HERE to get a closer look/Also click HERE to view my screencastify

Here is a video clip of learning pathway's completed by other student's in my class

Kia Manawanui - Team Building through Whanaungatanga

In week 4 it was whanaungatanga week which included participating in team building activities with our peers and our teachers. The activities provided helped us to build positive relationships with each other in our syndicate. We had a fun week of team building - Take a look at the video clips below.

Hare is a clip of our afternoon/evening activities:



Here is a clip of team building through Kiwisport Ki-O-Rahi:




More Team Building:

All about Kia Manawanui

At the beginning of the year we completed an 'All about Me' task which has been made into a syndicate quilt. We had to use signs and symbols to describe who we are. For example we had to use signs and symbols to show our personality traits, our likes and dislikes, beliefs, culture or heroes.

Take a look about our All About Me task in the video clip below.