Apollo launch observers!

This photo shows Jay and Taniela observing and reading the information about the large astronaut suit that was used in the Apollo launch.

How much do you know about ratios?

This week in maths room 7 have been learning about ratios. A ratio says how much of one thing there is compared to another thing. This is my score and it reflects my understanding of ratios. 100%

Messed up shapes

In room7 we are learning and doing some of our  maths on a site called 'How active  is your brain?'. The aim of the game is to try to spot the odd one out as quick as you can. The first game that we practiced on was a maths game, and now we are moving onto a shapes game, and this is my personal best yet.

The pursuit of his dream

‘He shoots, he scores and the Detroit Pistons win the finals’. That is what the young motivated basketball player named Michael Jordan always dreamed of. He was 15 years old and living on the streets of Detroit. He was about ten feet tall and had black skin with black hair. Everyday he would train day and night in a court at night practicing, hoping that one day he will be chosen for the Detroit Pistons basketball team. He was the best of the best but was not yet seen by other people.

At the age of 18, Michael Jordan took a job at a panel and paint shop, however he still had the fire in him and motivation for basketball. He took this job to save up for a expensive but exotic pair of Shaquille O’neal snickers. While he was practising on the court next to his workshop, a group of men came to the front of his workshop and stood there. After a while Michael Jordan noticed them and walked over to them and they started throwing fireworks and rocks at his shop and then they ran away. When he saw this he tried to catch them, but they jumped in a car that was waiting for them, and they drove away and left Michael’s workshop sizzling in flames.

The next day Michael arrived at his workshop with the feeling that all was lost. With all hopes lost Michael Jordan sadly sits down in front of the ashes of his workshop and sobbed in sorrow thinking about what he is going to be in the future. Suddenly a mini truck drives past and throws two sacks of money at him beeping the horn down the road. In fury Michael Jordan opened one of the sacks, and sees the money he quickly opens the second and also the same. With the happiest thoughts going around in his head, he thinks about the Shaquille O’neal snickers that he wanted and goes home in delight.

The next day he heads to the shop with his most wanted exotic Shaquille O’neal snickers, and enters the shop called ‘Foot locker’ and sees the pair of Shaquille O’neal snickers locked in the three centimetre glass box. He walks up to the counter and asked the shopkeeper for the Shaquille O’neal snickers. When Michael Jordan received the shiny pair of Shaquille O’neal snickers he started to practise again hoping to finally make it in now that he has the Shaquille O’neal snickers. With the money left over he used it to build another workshop and purchased tools for the workshop. Within a week his workshop was rebuilt and paid for a court for him to practise in. After cleaning up his new workshop he decided to practice before he packs up and leaves. When he was practising the former coach of the Detroit Pistons was passed by, when he saw Michael Jordan do a 360 windmill and stops and calls Michael Jordan to come, and talks to him and then the coach said that he wanted Michael Jordan to enter his team as the center , then before the coach leaves,  Michael Jordan hugs him and shakes his hand and says ‘I will not let you down. 15 years passed Michael Jordan is named in the world of basketball ' The great one '.

Probability of worm juice, slimy snail and fishy fish

Fishy fish

Fraction - 1/5

Ratio - 1:2:2

Percentage-20%

Equivalent - 20

                    100

Decimal - 0.2

Slimy snail x2

Fraction - 2/5

Ratio - 1:2:2

Percentage-40%

Equivalent - 40

                   100

Decimal - 0.4

Worm juice x2  

Fraction - 2/5

Ratio - 1:2:2

Percentage-40%

Equivalent - 40

                   100

Decimal - 0.4

We are learning about probability. Probability is the likelihood of something happening. I have worked out the probability of the items above.

The likelihood of coke zero!

This term in maths we are learning about probability. 

Probability is the likelihood of something happening.

This is the probability of coke zero.

4/4, 100%, 1 whole, 100/100

21st century mess

Should students still use netbooks or use books and pencils?

In the world today people are turning normal things into digital products. Netbooks  are now mostly used by students in many schools. If people start to use digital items/products in the future companies will start to depend on digital products and jobs will start to drop in large amounts and this is why I strongly believe that we should continue to use pen and paper and these are my reasons.

   Firstly, we should use pen and paper and encourage other people to use pen and paper as well, is because if we start using digital items and products like netbooks, these products in the future would cost quantities of money to buy, and now that schools are starting to use netbooks, in the future principals will have to buy multiple digital items for the whole school, and because these products are expensive there will be no money left to afford sports gear and school trips & camps.

   Secondly, we should use pen and paper because recently there have been reports that students in university can’t write in their mother tongue. Using netbooks would make school students and even high school students  not spell anymore and it will be impossible to spell simple words like the days of the week. During 2010 when the netbooks had been brought to schools, the percentages of students failing in tests had dropped a large amount from 98% to almost less than 50% because of the majority use of netbooks.

   Lastly, we shouldn’t use netbooks because instead of using it to learn, most students play games and look at things they are not supposed to be looking at. Netbooks is another way to encourage kids, like students to not listen to their teachers and not learn. Children will get addicted to netbooks and want to start to use netbooks instead of pen and paper. These digital items/products that are supposed to be learning tools for school students are being taken advantage of, by school children for inappropriate sites.

    In this world of the 21st century, people especially schools are turning to the new world of wifi and internet, but in the olden days people used to just use pen and paper. Parents and also school teachers should think carefully about purchasing these new but unhelpful products for their kids or students or else they would be affected the most.