Pi Day.

 The fourteenth day of the third months is Pi Day! 3/14

Ruma Waru celebrated with an Escape Room and a Scavenger Hunt.  Here are some results from our scavenger hunt. 

House of Bricks at Karoro School

             

          

Census At School

Ruma Waru joined hundreds of students from all around New Zealand and participated in the 2019 Census At School. We had to do a lot of measuring! We also had to weigh our school bags; many bags weighed over 3kgs! The survey also included questions about how we travel to school, what items were in our lunch box today, social media access, online time and use of devices at home and at school.

Lincon weighs his Chromebook on the Newton meter

Lincon and Mackenzie work together to measure Nevaeh's height.

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Symmetry In Art-Art in Symmetry

Geometry Art - Walt: use the invariant properties of figures and objects under transformation (reflection-whakaata, rotation-hurihanga, translation-nekehanga, or enlargement).

We learned that the invariant properties included internal angles, area, basic shape. When a shape is rotated the lengths, area and angles within the shape do not change but the orientation/position of the shape does. When a shape is reflected the lengths, area and angles within the shape do not change but the orientation/position of the shape does. When a shape is translated lengths, area, angles and orientation/position do not change. When a shape is enlarged (or reduced) by a scale factor angles and orientation do not change but area and lengths do.

Ina titiro koe ki nga pikitia nei, he aha ou kitenga?

(What do you notice when you look at these pictures?)

  

Ka kite tatou i etehi mea pangarau i roto i nga pikitia? (Can we recognise any mathematics ideas relating to symmetry in the pictures?)

Prism Tents

We investigated shapes for tents. We had to design and make a model of a tent. Many of the shapes we made were actually prisms. Then we had to write about the mathematics within our tent. The writing  should include dimensions, properties of the shapes, and relevant te reo pāngarau.		We are learning to: Identify classes of two- and three-dimensional shapes by their geometric properties. Relate three-dimensional models to two- dimensional representations, and vice versa.
Molly	Allie	Greanne
Bradley	Ben	Matthew R
Madison	Poppy	Lakshitha
Gage	Kieran	Kade
Aleece	Niamh	Summer
Wil	Ryan	Connor
Fern	Tara	Jack
Lochie	Matthew M	Sam
Josh	Reuben	Finn
Mitchell	Beau	Jayden
Aedan	Guy	Courtney

Triangle Challenge

Ruma Tahi students were given a Triangle Challenge to complete as part of our mathematical inquiry into triangles. When we had completed the challenge we made Digital Learning Objects to show our understanding of our learning.

Please follow the links to some of our Digital Learning Objects.

Room One  Triangle Challenge - Digital Learning Objects
Molly, Emily and Summer			Tara
Gage	Wil	Ben	Kieran
Aedan	Matthew R	Bradley	Matthew M
Fern	Ryan	Lochie	Josh
Niamh	Kade	Allie	Greanne
Aleece	Poppy	Beau	Mitchell
Jack	Jayden	Guy	Sam
Madison	Lakshitha