Maths

                                            Today at maths we were working with Bina.

We were solving a problem about toothpicks.

The first thing we did was Mrs Moore separated us into groups of three.The problem goes like this.

Ripeka and Jan were sitting around playing with toothpicks when Ripeka started to make a pattern of squares.How many toothpicks would she need to make a pattern like this that had 9 squares.

I was in a group with Hermione and Savahn.

The first thing we did was grabbed some ice block sticks and pretend that they were toothpicks.

Then we put them in the exact same pattern as it said on the problem solving sheet but it said on the paper  9 squares.So then we created the same pattern but we just used the 1 square and the two because it was up to nine.To be honest me and my group were kind of frustrated and confused but we never gave up.

When we got  help from Bina me and my group started to work more on the problem and instead of frustrated and confused we got happier and more on to it.

When we got to the end we were so happy that we never gave up.

Mrs Moore was also happy with us that she gave us a sunshine each.

Here is our hard work

In the problem my answer was wrong because we added spare sticks and it equaled 36.

The actual answer was 32 because we didn't need spare sticks.

  Thank you Bina for teaching us in math!