Mrs. Marshall's Homework and Information Blog: Fantastic Pedagogy- I mean Padagogy Wheel for Technology

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Statistics and Probability

Thanks for helping us today Mr Marshall!

Experiments with probability-we're trying to create a bug with our cool spinners.

Mrs Stewart's Maths-Einstein's Riddle

Einstein’s Riddle

Einstein wrote this riddle. He said 98% of the world could not solve it.

It can be done! Be part of the 2% that can!

There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The 5 owners all like to drink a different beverage, play a different sport and keep as certain pet.

No owners have the same pet, play the same sport or drink the same beverage.

The question is…………. Who owns the fish?

Facts:

The Brit lives in the red house.

The Swede keeps dogs as pets.

The Dane drinks tea.

The green house is on the left of the white house.

The owner of the green house drinks coffee.

The person who plays tennis rears birds.

The owner of the yellow house plays golf.

The person living in the centre house drinks milk.

The Norwegian lives in the first house

The person who swims lives next door to the one who keeps cats.

The person who plays football drinks ginger beer.

The German does rowing.

The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.

The person who swims has a neighbour who drinks water.

The man who keeps the horse lives next door to the man who plays golf.

 This develops the Proficiencies of Understanding, Problem Solving, Reasoning and Fluency.

Ms. Thompson's Marvellous Mathematician

This student is explaining his Reasoning!

Mrs Simpson's Class Using the `Guess and Check' Strategy

"Guess and Check" is a  a powerful way to solve maths problems. Students solve the problems by having a guess. Although we say `guess,' it's not a random guess. The students needs to have thought about the  possible answer/s.
The students then check their answers to see if their solution fits the problem.
Doing this strategy builds up students understanding, fluency, problem solving and reasoning skills- in fact all of the Proficiencies of mathematics as described in the Australian Curriculum.

Well done Mrs Simpson!  You're a champion!

Ms. Thompson's Fantastic Students!

 Ms. Thompson's amazing students are using thinkboards to solve problems. They also spoke about Commutative properties and how to find the inverse of a sum.

 We wish Ms. Thompson all the very best for the fabulous journey ahead for her. It was so lovely to work with you Ms. Thompson.

Mr Silvio's Wonderful Class

Mr Silvio's students using cubes to develop their understanding of division.

100 Days of School!!!

On Thursday 24th July marks our 100th day at school. In order to celebrate we’d love every student to collect 100 things for your class display. Start collecting NOW!!!

Your teachers will also do an activity that involves `100.’

Some things you could collect are:
M&M’s
pieces of cereal (Fruit Loops)
jellybeans
paper clips
rocks
bottle caps
Popsicle sticks
beads
dried beans
sunflower seeds
straws
popcorn kernels
cotton balls
buttons
rubber bands
stickers
markers
decorative stamps (stamp 10 rows of 10 on a piece of paper)
playing cards
books you’ve read (write them down on a piece of paper)
words you can write/read
toothpicks
balloons (the class can inflate them up later)
list of 100 types of animals
photographs
pieces of macaroni
Smarties
marshmallows
feathers
birthday candles
fingerprints
pretzels
googly eyes
nails
washers
shoelaces
hair clips
puzzle pieces
raisins
pipe cleaners
craft pom poms
marbles
mini pencils
pencil toppers
cotton swabs
pieces of paper
paper snowflakes
hole punches
names for boys
names for girls
signatures (this can not be done last minute) stars (hand drawn)
hearts (hand drawn)names of songs you know
seashells
keys
dominos
grains of rice
twist ties
chocolate chips
sequins (try gluing them into the shape of the number 100)glow sticks
dice
Please check out the links on the sidebar under blogroll. There are many great sites listed with a host of great maths resources.
Have fun!

TEACHERS! Look below for some wonderful links for 100 Days of School! The activities show all learning areas!

http://www.teachersmousepad.com/100thday/celebrate_the_100th_day__of_scho.htm
http://www.songsforteaching.com/hundredth-day-of-school/
http://www.mathwire.com/seasonal/100day.html

http://www.pinterest.com/allison_drake/100th-day-of-school/

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/hundred.shtml

http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/k_2theme/100days.htm

http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/themes/100days.html

http://www.k-5mathteachingresources.com/100th-day-of-school-activities.html

http://www.teachthechildrenwell.com/100day.html

http://www.vickiblackwell.com/100th.html

http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems80.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPdQn2yxNIQ

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Browse/Search:100%20days

http://www.tipjunkie.com/post/ideas-for-100th-day-of-school/

http://www.pinterest.com/joyteach/100-day-ideas/

http://www.sis-shekou.org/page.cfm?p=648&newsid=114&ncat=1%2C2%2C5

  http://www.gamequarium.com/100thday.html

Mrs Simpson's Amazing Class

 Mrs Simpson's wonderful class are developing their fluency skills with division spinners. They also built in a Statistics and Probabilty component by keeping scores using a tally during our warm up. Well done to Mrs Simpson and her wonderful class.