Week Eleven - Taite 1st Hurae

Topic: Practical Measurement

Learning objectives: Measure accurately to calculate area and perimeter

Homework: none - but make sure you bring in 17.03-17.05 by tomorrow

Test is tomorrow - this covers chapters 14-17

Week Eleven - Turei 29th Hune

Topic: Capacity

Learning objective: Be familiar with the relationship between capacity volume and weight in the metric system e.g 1cm^3 holds 1ml of water and weighs 1g.

Homework: None tonight - optional - finish off chapter 17

Reminder: TEST on FRIDAY also bring rulers on Thursday

Congratulations to Angelynna, Thomas and Taylor D who won prizes in this mornings assembly :)

Week Eleven - Mane 28th Hune

Topic: Cylinders

Learning objective: Be able to calculate the volume and surface area of a cylinder using a given formula.

Homework: 17.05

Reminder: TEST on FRIDAY

Week Ten - Paraire 25th Hune

Topic: Prisms

Learning objective: Recognise prisms and find their volumes.

Key terms:

• A prism has the same face on either end - e.g a Toblerone is a triangular prism.
• A cross section is the shape made when a shape is sliced through the middle.

Homework: 17.03 and 17.04

Test will now be on Friday

Week Ten - Taite 24th Hune

Topic: Volume

Learning objective: Find the volume of cuboids in order to solve problems.

Homework: 17.01 & 17.02

Rest due on Friday: 14.06, 15.05, 15.06, 16.01, 16.02, 17.01 & 17.02

Week Ten - Turei 22nd Hune

Topic: Circles

Learning objective: Find the area and circumference of given circles.

Homework: 16.01 & 16.02

Week Ten - Mane 21st Hune

Topic: Composite areas

Learning objective: Divide shapes into pieces in order to find their area.

Homework: 14.06

This weeks homework so far: 14.06, 15.05 & 15.06

Week Nine - Paraire 18th Hune

Topic: Applications of area

Learning objective: Use techniques such as drawing a diagram to solve area word problems.

Homework: 15.05 & 15.06

Week Nine - Taite 17th Hune

Topic: Area - triangles, parallelograms and trapeziums.

Learning objective: Use formulas to find the area of different shapes including triangles, parallelograms, trapeziums and combination of these.

Homework: 15.03 & 15.04

Total due in this week: 15.01-15.04, 14.03 & 14.04 & 14.07

Week Nine - Turei 15th Hune

Topic: Rectangles

Learning objective: Know the relationship between the width and length of a rectangle and its area and perimeter.

Homework: 15.01 & 15.02

Rest of this weeks homework: 14.03 &14.04 & 14.07

Last weeks homework: 14.01 & 14.02 & 14.05 & 6.12 & 6.13

Last last weeks homework: 8.04 & 9.06 & 9.07

Week Nine - Mane 14th Hune

Topic: Reading tables and scales

Learning objective: Read information in different forms such as tables and scales

Homework: 14.07

Last week's homework: 6.12 & 6.13, 14.01 & 14.02, 14.03, 14.04, 14.05

Reminders: Bring your clearfiles if you haven't already.

Week Eight - Paraire 11th Hune

Topic: Units of mass and capacity

• Mass is the scientific word for weight - measured in grams.
• Capacity is how much something can hold - measured in litres.
• In the metric system we use 1000 every time we convert - except for when using cm.
  

Learning objective: Be familiar with the units mg, g, kg and t (tonne) for mass, and the units mL, L and kL for capacity. Recognise when you need to multiply or divide by 1000 to convert, and convert accurately between these measurements.

Homework: ex 14.03 & 14.04

Week Eight - Taite 10th Hune

Topic: Units of length

Learning Objective: Be familiar with the units - km, m, cm and mm and know how to convert between these.

Homework: 14.02

Reminders: Bring you clearfiles and rulers.

Week Eight - Turei 8th Hune

Topic: Estimation

Used to: give an idea of how big something is

Example: I have $100 to spend on CDs and each one costs $23.99. Approximately how many CDs can I buy?

Homework: 6.12 and 6.13

Reminder: Bring your clearfiles on Thursday

Week Seven - Paraire 4th Mei

Topic: Time especially 24 hour time.

Example problem: What time is it 3 and a half hours after 2045?

Homework: 14.05

Last weeks homework: 9.06, 9.07 and 8.04