Cupcake Fractions

Cupcake Fractions and Ratios

By Alessia and Georgia

Last Friday Miss Lee organised us some fun food activities. She bought cupcake mixes (chocolate and vanilla flavour) and green cordial. There were also other activities like the fraction flag activity. We were split into groups for the day when we did this.   

We made cupcakes using ratios and fractions.   

 

 

We had to mix some vanilla and chocolate then write the ratio and fraction for it. For example 3 spoons of chocolate and 1 spoon of vanilla. The ratio would be written like this 3:1 and the fractions ¾.  

We then did the same with the cordial 20 mL of cordial and 40 mL of water had 1 part cordial and 4 parts water.  It had a fraction of ⅕.

Fraction Maths

Chocolate Fractions

By Abby and Matt D

Our Year 5 class have been learning about fractions. Last Thursday we played the chocolate fractions game.  In the chocolate fractions game we had three chairs at  the front of our classroom with chocolate packs on them.  The first chair had one pack of chocolate. The second one had two chocolate packs on it and the third had three packs of chocolate. Year 5 had to pick which chair would give them the most amount of chocolate.

Kameron had the first choice and that was easy (he chose the seat with 3 packs).  From then on more students had the chance to come up to the front of the classroom to pick what chair they would get the most chocolate from.

We had whiteboards to see what fraction it would be, sometimes all the groups would have the same fraction which is called an equivalent fraction e.g 1/3,  2/6, 3/9. We would have to think and use our fraction brains to figure out the option would be the best and give us the most chocolate.

Which option you would choose?

Option 1- You would have 1/5 of the chocolate (1 bar)

Option 2- You would have 2/9 of the chocolate (1 1/9 bar)

Option 3- You would have 1/12 of the chocolate (1 3/12 bar)

What did you learn from the chocolate fractions lesson?

Volume for St Felix

Volume Activities for St Felix

By Paul, Matt D and James

This past week, Year 5 have been learning about Volume. We were given the challenge to create some learning activities for Yr 5 from St Felix. We split into different groups. Some were doing volume and others did displacement. Everyone did an activity: some did game, a tutorial, a song and a quiz. We learnt about the formula of the volume of an object. We times the Length, Width and Height.

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Try making your way through our activities to increase your knowledge and skills about volume.  Happy Learning!

 Volume Tutorial by Matthew D, James, Jamie and Kameron

 Volume Posters by Clara, Natalie and Trish

  Volume Song 'Do You Want To Learn A New Thing?' by Emily B, Abby, Sinead and Stephanie

 Volume Examples by Julie-Anne

  Volume Millionaire Hot Seat by Angela and Ryley

  Volume Game by Vivian and Emily N

  Displacement Tutorial by Georgia, Angel and Alessia

  Displacement Posters by Jade and Ashlia

  Displacement Questions by Thalia and Thomas

  Displacement Game 'UniDuck' by Paul and Matthew K

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What activity did you like? Why?  What did you enjoy most about creating the activites for St Felix?  

24 Hour Time

St Felix Maths Collaboration

By Georgia and Clara

During the last 2 weeks, Year 5 have been working hard on making 24 hour time resources for St Felix. The resources that were created were: a tutorial, 2 posters, 2 songs, a presentation, 2 games and a quiz. St Felix was learning about elapsed time and prepared questions for us. We communicated on google hang out and they shared their questions for us to figure out. We created a website that contain all our activities and St Felix had a look at the website. We had so much fun with St Felix, and learnt about elapsed time in a fun way. St Felix were very friendly towards us and repeated their question whenever we didn’t understand or hear clearly. Their questions were quite challenging , but we managed to figure out the answer using our brains, whiteboards (and sometimes calculators). We’d love to do another google hangout with St Felix someday. It’s an experience we’d never forget! :)

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Year 5 Mathematical Magicians

Subtraction Magic Trick!

By Clara L and Matthew K

In Mathematics in Year 5, we are learning about Addition and Subtraction. In Subtraction, Miss Lee showed us a very smart subtraction trick. This trick is for subtraction sums with lots of zeroes and it must end with a zero. These are the steps to a subtraction trick that will make you extremely smart! There will also be an example.

Step 1: Write the problem.            9, 000, 000

                                              -     874, 392 = ?

Step 2: Take away 1 from the first number.       8, 999, 999

                                                                    -   874, 392 =?

Step 3: Figure out the problem.    8, 999, 999

                                       -   874, 392                                  

                                              ________

                                             8, 125, 607                                                           

Final Step: Plus the 1 that you took away on the 2nd step.  8, 125, 607 +1= 8, 125, 608

So, you can do a sum with 50 zeroes and get the answer right!

Whole Number

Smartie Maths

by Jamie, Thomas, Matthew K and D

We are looking at whole number in Mathematics.  On Monday we did an exciting activity called smartie maths. First we opened a little box of smarties. Then we arranged the smarties from highest to smallest according to the number value. We arranged them according to the colour code for their place value e.g green=1.

For example these smarties have a number of

11, 051, 301.

Then we had to work out who had the highest number in year 5.  It was Matthew D with 52,123,200. Then we had to answer questions about the number for example we had to write the number in words and figure out the expanded notation for the number.  We also had to write 5 questions for a partner.

What did you learn from the Smartie Maths lesson?