➗ MATHS - Trade and Enterprise ™️

WALT: Analyse and interpret statistical data


Task Description: This weeks maths Room 4 got to look into how people trade for different items from around the world. We are learning to (as you can see from the walt) Analyse and interpret data. We also participated in a trading activity so that we can fully complete this presentation.

Our activity was to trade different items from different countries to see who could make the most profit and/or money. In order to do this we had to get into groups. I was grouped with Acera, Jacob, Freedom and Fonua. We pretended that our groups were individual countries - that we got to name YAY! Our group name was Hone Heke (I don't even know why) the next was Mordor, Babushka, Combat and Angels. 

Mrs Stone handed out items which was electronics, oil, coffee beans and gold. Each item held some points or money we would say in the real world. Mrs Stone gave us about a minute to discuss how we are going to be trading things. We had a lot of great ideas about how we can get more profit and we were even eyeing out the other groups.

The trading then begun! We started off with Maanas who was from mordor and he wanted to sell his electronic or coffee bean for some gold. The majority of the class disagreed and decided not to give in, but my group had another plan in mind. We were willing to sell two electronics and one oil for two oils. 

Maanas agreed with our bargain, but offered more if we were to increase the amount of oil. We were discussing the fact and seeing if there was any other way we could persuade him so I yelled out "Anyone going higher?!". Chastyti agreed with our bargain and decided to give us 4 OILSSSS! Can you believe that. I think she made a mistake because the deal we had was un-fair, but hey! Were the ones making the money!

From that trade, our group was on a roll! We started to increase bit by bit in our profit and we thought that we were doing very well. Then it came to a end. Mrs Stone calculated the points and we were very confident in giving in our score. All of a sudden we were stunned! We realised there were two other groups - babushka and combat had a higher amount of points than us. I mean but HOW?!!!

We called Mrs Stone for a objection and explained that they didn't even make some trades and were still ahead of us. Then realisation hit me. Not all countries have the same amount of money. Some are wealthy some are not. I let out a satisfied look. Mrs Stone purposely shared the items out un-evenly because of this matter.

This task was one of my favourites! I learnt how to be more persuasive, calculate and trade well. I think that our group improved in profit, because our country started off as a poor one and with a few trades and deals we ended up increasing a lot in profit. This task really made me think. Thank You Mrs Stone.

Measurement Madness 📏➗

WALT: Calculate area, perimeter and volume
Task Description: This week for maths we are working on to convert fractions, decimals and percantages. I can tell you that I hurt my brain trying to figure the perimeter and area of different shapes although, I did definently learnt many types of tricks and maths stratigies during this process. In this presentation, you will see that I have completed three slides this week. I hope you enjoy me hurting my brain and learning lot's!

Maths ~ Grappling with Graphs

WALT: extract information from a range of graphs

If you'd like to learn more about graphs too check this video about out!

Task Description: This week Room 4 Maths has been working on graphs. First we were given a brief introduction to graphs and we learnt about the different types of graphs in Maths and what type of graph is used for what and more. After that, we worked on our maths task online. This presentation is called grappling with graphs. In the presentation we chose what level we wanted to work at so I started with the basics. I read some of the questions and worked it out in my maths book. Once I've finished working it out I pasted the questions onto the presentation. This is my finished work!