We are soooooo proud of ourselves that we persisted and got it in the end.
Scales and Compass groups comment
below to tell the story of how we went with this problem, what you missed and
what you got stuck on.
What a fun problem!
(It got Miss Campbell for a second
too)
Check out us solving Mrs Simpson's rose garden fence problem:
Check out us solving Mrs Simpson's rose garden fence problem:
What got us was that the sleepers had to be stacked three high. We were not paying attention to what the diagram showed us.
ReplyDeleteThis problem was very tricky. No body thought of adding all three layers of the fence on this maths problem. In the end we got there.
ReplyDeleteThis was super tricky, but we got it in the end! We first thought it was 32, so we timesed it by 3 and the answer was 96! What a tricky problem this was!
ReplyDeleteThis problem got us because the number of metres was the same as the answer. We had to do lots of thinking, It really made our brains go. Origanly we thought that it was 32sleepers by dividing 96m by 3sleepers but we were wrong!
ReplyDeleteYou have some great problem solving skills Room 4. I wonder if you can help me with my problem. I am building a new rose garden. It's quite big. It's 12m long and 6m wide. I only want the sleepers stacked 2 high. Oh, and one other thing - the sleepers are only 2m long. Could you please let me know how many sleepers I should order? Thank you.
ReplyDeleteWe had quite a large argument at the start of this project. One member of our group accidently thought that it had to have 12 SLEEPERS not 12 METRES. We finally worked out that it was 36 sleepers also known as 72 metres.
ReplyDelete{ I will help you when I come to work} From Tommy.
Maths arguments in Room 4 are what I call "healthy arguments" which we can learn from. It was great to see you all explaining your thinking to each other. Ka Pai te mahi!
DeleteFirst of all our group realised that each Popsicle stick represented 2m. Next we made a diagram of the area. Since the Popsicle sticks represented 2m, we multiplied the first layer of sleepers by 2. In the end we came up with the answers of 72m (36 sleepers).
ReplyDeleteSo you need to by 36 sleepers from the store.
We all got stuck on the three sleepers high! We were sixty four off!
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