Grade 5 - Matt Kimber » Maths

Banks / Interest / Maths

Matt Kimber — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:17:11 +0000

In Maths class we have been studying fractions, decimals, percentage, ratio and proportion. Today we put our learning into context by discussing banks. What a bank does? Why people put their money in banks? How interest in calculated? The idea of compound interest.

The more the students can contextualize abstract ideas the more connections they make with the everyday world and the more learning will take place.

Attached is the power point we used and a copy of their homework.

Thanks for your continued support

basic_interest_calculations – document

basic_interest_calculations – powerpoint

Maths – Fractons

Matt Kimber — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:58:43 +0000

This week in Maths class we have begun studying our unit on Fractions, Decimals, Percentages, Ratio and Proportion. The students have shown a good recollection of their work in grade 4 and today enjoyed playing Equivalent Fractions Memory.

Parts of a Circle

Matt Kimber — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:56:08 +0000

Parts of a Circle

Part of the students nightly mathematics revision asked them to label the parts of a circle.

From: http://mathshints.blogspot.com/2010/05/circles.html

This was new to many students, so today during mathematics the students played an online game to revise the terms. Some students will need to continue to practice this. Here are the links to the games for them to play tonight as revision. In different countries the teaching regarding Pi and measuring circles is completed at differing grade levels an example being in the English National Curriculum Pi is not taught until Grade 7.

Circle

Parts of a circle dictionary.

Matching the parts of a circle to their definition.

Visual Game that shows a picture of part of circle and you have to choose the correct answer.

Braille Investigation

Matt Kimber — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:00:57 +0000

In maths we have been looking at problems and mathematical solutions. Today we looked at the ingenious Braille system used to help blind people to communicate. Please review the power point we used for further information.

braille_investigation

In literacy we began looking at narrative poetry and started to explore the Highwayman poem written by Alfred Noyes. I will post more information about our narrative poetry and the Highwayman tomorrow.

Here are links to the resources we were using in class today. Please have a think about how we could present the poem:

Animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYUmP-Nk0-U&feature=related

Lego: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_pMq7eeHXU&feature=related

Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsUM7V6Ku_8

Please note the videos are from YouTube so you might have trouble accessing them.

Maths Murder

Matt Kimber — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:15:56 +0000

This week in Maths class we will be acting as maths detectives to solve clues in order to track down a murderer of Lady Bilkington and find her diamonds.

Attached is the power point we will be using:

murder_mystery_maths

Chess Club

Matt Kimber — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:05:51 +0000

Athletes, Algebra, Announcements and Alliteration

Matt Kimber — Tue, 15 May 2012 00:34:23 +0000

As we are coming towards the end of the year there are so many things to complete and celebrate. It is a very busy time of year with so much going on.

Please could all permission slips and notification letters be returned to school as soon as possible. Thank you to all parents for returning the ‘intent to return’ letter. We are waiting on a couple of MYP language option letters and sleep over permission slips.
Well done to the Elementary school football teams for their excellent performance at last week’s ISCOT tournament. Congratulations to the girls team who won their league scoring 12 goals and conceding none.
In maths we have been continuing our work on Algebra and in Unit of Inquiry we have started our transitions unit. Thank you to Hilma who completed extra work at home and shared her interesting elevator method to simplify equations.