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Wednesday 27 June 2018

Working out Maths

What is the context of the question? Miss Szymanik brought 15 puzzles for her class. What is the question asking us to do? The question is asking us to figure out what is ⅕ of 15 is. Show your working (what division or multiplication facts helped you): 15 divided by 5 = 3 5 x 3 = 15. Answer: 3 of the puzzles were for 10 - 12 year olds.

 Mr Moran brought some cake to share for his birthday last week. What is the question asking us to do? The question is asking us to figure out what is ⅙ of 18. Show your working (what division or multiplication facts helped you): 18 divided by 6 = 3 6 x 3 = 18 Answer: 3 of the pieces of cake were chocolate. Mr Burt brought 35 new chromebooks for students. ⅖ of them didn’t have bags. How many chromebooks still needed bags? What is the context of the question?


 Mr Burt brought 35 new chromebooks for his students. What is the question asking us to do? The question is asking us to figure out what is ⅖ of 35. Show your working (what division or multiplication facts helped you): 5 x 7 = 35 35 divided by 5 = 7 Then we did x 7 with 2 7 x 2 = 14 Answer: 14 chromebooks still needed bags.


 Mrs Lagitupu brought 100 new cameras. ⅖ of them were Sony brand. How many Sony brand cameras did she buy? What is the context of the question? Mrs Lagitupu brought 100 new cameras. What is the question asking us to do? The question is asking us to figure out what is ⅖ of 100. Show your working (what division or multiplication facts helped you): 100 divided by 5 = 20 5 x 20 =100 20 x 2 = 40 Answer: 20 of the cameras were Sony brand.



 Miss Parrant brought 21 pairs of rugby boots for her Rippa team. 3/7 of them were Adidas brand boots. How many adidas brand boots did Miss Parrant buy? What is the context of the question? Miss Parrant brought 21 pairs of rugby boots for her Rippa team. What is the question asking us to do? The question is asking us to figure out what is 3/7 of 21. Show your working (what division or multiplication facts helped you): 21 divided by 7 = 9 3 x 9 = 27 Answer: 27 of the boots were Adidas brand boots.


 Mrs Moala brought 28 ice blocks to share with her class. ¾ were lemonade flavoured. How many lemonade flavoured ice blocks were there? What is the context of the question? Mrs Moala brought 28 ice blocks to share with her class. What is the question asking us to do? The question is asking us to figure out what is ¾ of 28. Show your working (what division or multiplication facts helped you): 28 divided by 4 = 7 3 x 7 = 21 Answer: 21 ice blocks were lemonade.

Simple,Compound and Complex sentences.

Thursday 14 June 2018

the year 6 writing.

Choose some writing you have done in the last few weeks. Paste it below.


One sunny,warm and hot day there was a mini dog called Zac. Zacloved to go across the road to the farm but he wasn’t allowed
to cause the meaning,nasty and horrible farmer
who was living there will chuck him out.so Zac was being careful for the
farmer so he ran to the fence and he was looking around for him but he
wasn’t outside he was inside the house. So Zac went inside and looked
around the farm but something was wrong he could hear laughing that sounds like sheeps “BahahaBahahBahah”. So Zac went and checked what was happening.


One sunny,warm and hot day there was a mini dog called Zac.
Zac loved to go across the road to the farm, but he wasn’t allowed to cause
the mean,nasty and horrible farmer who was living there would throw  him out.
Zac was being  really careful  of the farmer.  Zac ran to the fence and he
was looking around for him but he wasn’t outside he was inside the house
.  Zac went inside and looked around the farm but something was wrong, he
could hear laughing that sounded like sheeps. “Bahahabahahbahah”.  ac
went and checked what was happening.