Statistical Enquiry
Student Surveys
ARI: Video Games
BROOKLYN: Games
CHRISTOPHER: YouTube
ELLIOTT: Room 9's Favourite Anime
LUCI: Room 9 Pet Preferences
OPAL: Sports in Room 9
THAI: Birthday Parties in Room 9
TYSON: Birthday Cakes
WILLIAM: Hobbies in Room 9
YAZEED: Video Games
Riddles
November 3: Ancient Civilisations
November 2: Who Owns the Crocodile
November 1: Movie's Night
October 25: Einstein's Riddle
Adapted from https://www.mathnasium.com/
Imagine there are five houses of different colors next to each other on the same street. There are also five children who each live in one of these houses (with each child not living with the other four). Every child has a single favorite drink, a single favorite food, and also has one pet.
The street is straight. The houses are numbered left to right.
1. Peter lives in the red house.
2. Mary has a dog.
3. Linus drinks tea.
4. The green house is just to the left of the white one.
5. The child in the green house drinks lemonade.
6. The child who likes cookies has birds.
7. The child in the yellow house likes chocolate.
8. The child in the middle house drinks milk.
9. Emma lives in the first house.
10. The child who likes sweets has a neighbor with a cat.
11. The child who likes chewing-gum drinks apple juice.
12. The child who has a horse lives next to the child who likes chocolate.
13. Anna likes cake.
14. Emma lives next to the blue house.
15. The child who likes sweets lives next to the child who drinks water.
QUESTION: Who has fish?
So far one student has finished this riddle.
Short Maths Challenges
November 1
We are looking at measurement as part of our Lockdown Kitchen projects.
Maybe some of you will have come across the unit "ounces". T
This is an old unit as the Imperial system which comes from Britain, but is still used in North America.
1 ounce is approximatey 28 grams. Here is maths challenge that uses ounces:
October 21
October 18
September 7
September 6
September 3
From www.mathematicshed.com/
September 2
How many blocks are in the picture above?
August 31
Using 4 straight lines, can you cut this pizza into 11 slices?
August 30
Here is another Roald Dahl maths challenge. You need to work out the value of the characters: Matilda (the girl), Enormous Crocodile, George (the boy), Willy Wonka (the man with the cane) and the Twits (the older couple).
August 27
August 26
Warm-ups
September 7
September 6
September 3
September 2
August 31
August 30
August 27
August 26
August 25
Long Maths Challenges
August 26 (The Stolen Dragon Head)
August 25 (The Mystery of the Unspinning Spinners Game)
Numbers of the Day
You can choose any of these numbers to complete the numbers of the day:
And you can also generate your own numbers if you would like more practice! Remember, I would like you to share your number of the day with the class. You can send me your work by email (gparkinson@hameast.school.nz) or move it into your Maths folder on your Hamilton East School account.
September 7: 18, 38, 382, 8511
September 6: 13, 89, 462, 7127
September 3: 17, 29, 876, 6382
September 2: 15, 38, 491, 9390
August 31: 14, 49, 745, 9292
August 30: 14, 49, 745, 9292
August 27: 11, 56, 872, 7828
August 26: 12, 86, 972, 5762
August 25: 10, 67, 928, 4632
I probably got it wrong but is challenging September 6th warm up 77
ReplyDeleteIf you did your working on paper, you could take a picture of it and share it with me, Chris. :)
ReplyDeleteAnd if anyone wants to check their answers for previous Pāngarau tasks, have a look under "Pāngarau Link" on the right-hand side of the blog.
ReplyDelete60 balls in the tower
ReplyDeletewiliam and I think the answer to the warm up sep the 3 is 7
ReplyDeletebecase a quater of 28 is 7
Deletewas the answer for september the second 66?-alex-hamsa
ReplyDeletewsiliam and I think the answer for septmber 6 is 20 , 5 , 1 , 26
ReplyDeletethe red flower is 20
ReplyDeletethe blue flower is 5
the yellow flower is 1
20+20+20=60
20+5+5=30
5-1-1=3
1+20+5=26
Luci.S
yellow flower + red flower + blue flower = 71 because each flower has its own number.
ReplyDeleteThe tringle has 5 tringles.
in you put 1 line going down and 1 going sideways 1 going diagley and another 1 diagley on the other side.
7 tryangels on 2 or 3 sept
ReplyDeleteLuci
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ReplyDeleteI think block tower is 66 because I multipled one side bye 4 then added 6
Ari and Yazeed did the balls whitch is 16 and we did the flowers whitch are 26
ReplyDeleteI think there are 30 squres
ReplyDeleteLuci, Rm9
I ment wsiliam not wisilliam
ReplyDeleteLuci, Rm9
Hi everyone! I want to give you more time to try the new maths challenges. I suggest using real coins to work out the coin challenge. You can take step-by-step photos of your solution and email them to me! Thank you Luci for your contribution. Do we agree or disagree with Luci?
ReplyDeleteI agree with Luci
ReplyDeleteLuci Rm9
The circles one you move the top left and bottom right next to the other circly thingymajig
ReplyDeleteI have re conted and now I think that there are 32 squres
ReplyDeleteLuci Rm9 p.s its my b-day
Happy birthday Luci! I hope you have a great day. :)
ReplyDeleteHi Greg it’s Ryan the flower plus clover is 20 cause 5x4=20
ReplyDeleteFor the darts I used 6 darts I did 16 + 17 + 17 =50
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