Place Value Workshop!

Mrs Matuku's Workshop On Place Value!

Hello everyone!

Yesterday,Mrs Matuku did a workshop on place value.We were learning how many tens in a number.Mrs Matuku gave an example which was the number five hundred and twenty seven,and we had to write two ways of writing the same number using the columns hundreds,tens and units/ones.

These are the two ways to do it:

1:Five hundreds,two tens and seven ones.

2:Fifty-two tens and seven ones.

She also told us of a website that would help us learn our place value.Here is the link:

http://www2.nzmaths.co.nz/LearningObjects/PVBlocks/index.html

And here is a photo of my work(one page of it!)

These are some numbers that Mrs Matuku gave us.And they are split into the two ways that they can be split into.

Hope you liked it!

From,

Maya

My Pi Day Star Of David!  

 

Hello everyone!

Yesterday was the 22 of the 7th month.So the short date is 22/7.That division is called pi.It goes on,quite literally,FOREVER!

 

So,to celebrate pi day,I did a star of David using the numbers of pi.Not all of them!.It was in the shape of David's star,which looks like this:

 

My star of David has got twelve triangles:six on the outside,and six on the inside,and a dot in the center.My birth date,the 21st,is a triangular number.So in all twelve triangles,I took out the triangles and replaced the triangle with little circles and ended up with two hundred and fifty three circles!I assigned ten colours to each digit that appears in pi,zero-nine.I did the first two hundred and fifty three digits of pie.Here is the colour code I used:

And here is the star of David(It's very colourful,ay?):

Hope you liked this!
From,

Maya.

 

 

 

My rocks and fossils!

Hello everyone!

A couple of weeks ago,I bought some rocks and fossils.I put them in a cabinet,and decided to write an article about them.Here is a photo of the cabinet:

 And here is the article:

Facts about my rocks and fossils!

1:Moonstone

Name:Moonstone.

Country discovered:Australia, Brazil, Germany, India, Myanmar, Madagascar, Mexico, Norway, Switzerland, Tanzania, and USA.

Colour:Blue(INCREDIBLY RARE!),grey,white,pink,peach,green and brown.

Scientific formula:KAlSi3O8 (Potassium, Aluminium, Silicon, and Oxygen.)

Interesting fact:Moonstone is the official state gem of Florida,USA. And, moonstone is the woman’s lucky gem!

2:Garnet

Name:Garnet.

Country discovered:India and the USA.

Colour:Red and brown.

Scientific Formula:ABSi3O12 (Silicon, Oxygen, and also has Iron, Calcium, Magnesium, and Manganese, Aluminum and Chromium!)

Interesting fact:Garnets are very hard, so hard to break open!

3:Citrine

Name:Citrine.

Country discovered:Brazil, France, Russia, Madagascar.

Colour:Yellow, orange, brown.

Scientific formula: SiO2 (Silicon and Oxygen.)
Interesting fact:Citrine seems to raise one's mood, encourages happiness and laughter, and lowers levels of madness and frustration!

4:Peridot

Name:Peridot.

Country discovered:Australia (Queensland), Brazil (Minas Gerais), China, Kenya, Mexico, Norway (north of Bergen), South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and the United States (Arizona and Hawaii).

Colour:Green

Scientific formula:Mg2SiO4 (Magnesium and Silicon.)

Interesting fact:Peridot has been August’s birthstone since 1912.

5:Trilobite fossils

Name:Trilobite fossil.

Era trilobites lived:Flourished in the Paleozoic era.

Era trilobites went extinct:Permian era.

Colour:No-one knows; some think some were.

Latin name:Trilobita.

Interesting fact:There are over 20,000 scientifically recognised species of trilobites!

6:Ammonite fossils

Name:Ammonite fossils.

Era Ammonites lived:First appeared in the Devonian era.

Era Ammonites went extinct:Cretaceous-paleogene extinction event.

Colour:We believe that they were grey.

Latin name:Ammonoidea.

Interesting fact:Ammonites ate small fish and crustaceans. CARNIVORES!!!

7:Obsidian

Name:Obsidian.

Country discovered:Ethiopia.
Colour:Black, green, brown, red, blue, yellow and orange.

Scientific formula:SiO2 (Silicon and Oxygen.)

Interesting fact:Obsidian is sometimes called “nature’s glass” because of it’s glassy appearance!

8:Clear quartz

Name:Clear quartz.

Country discovered:Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, Russia, France, Namibia, and Morocco.

Colour:Colourless, transparent.

Scientific formula:SiO2 (Silicon and Oxygen.)

Interesting fact:Quartz has many different names, depending on the colour!

9:Jellyfish fossils

Name:Jellyfish fossils.

Where Jellyfish are usually found:jellyfish are found in every sea, from surface to deep sea.

Most deadly:Sea wasp box jellyfish.

Scientific name:Medusozoa.

Interesting fact:A group of Jellyfish is called a “bloom”, “swarm”, or “smack”!

10:Rose quartz

Name:Rose quartz.

Country discovered:Madagascar, South Africa, Namibia, U.S.A(South Dakota), and Brazil.

Colour:Pink!

Scientific formula:SiO2 (Silicon and Oxygen.)

Interesting fact:Rose quartz is considered to be a symbol of beauty and love!

11:Indian moonstone

Name:Indian moonstone.

Country discovered:Australia, Brazil, Germany, India(obviously!), Myanmar, Madagascar, Mexico, Norway, Switzerland, Tanzania, and the U.S.A.

Colour:It actually plays with light,it creates a shimmer that makes it look like different colours!

Scientific formula: AlSi3O8 (Aluminium, Silicon, and Oxygen.)

Interesting fact:Indian moonstones are a beautiful gem that have a history of spirituality and magic!

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The article contained the name,country discovered,colour,scientific formula,and an interesting fact for the rocks,gems and minerals,for fossils,the name,era they lived,era they went out,latin name and interesting fact,and for jellyfish,name,where they live,most deadly,latin name,and interesting fact.

Hope you learnt something!And hoped you liked it!

From,

Maya.

Ogden Nash Drawings!

Hello everyone!
Today,I did some drawings based on some poems that Ogden Nash did.Here are the drawings and underneath,the poem itself:

The Llama.

The one-l lama,
He's a priest.
The two-l llama,
He's a beast.
And I will bet
A silk pajama
There isn't any
Three-l lllama

The Cobra.

This creature fills it's mouth with venom,

And walks upon his duodenum

He who attempts to tease the cobra,

Is soon a sadder he,and sobra.

The Cow.

 

The cow is of the bovine ilk,

One end is moo,the other,milk.

The Phoenix.

Deep in the study

Of eugenics

We find the fabled

Fowl,the phoenix.

The wisest bird,

As ever was,

Rejecting other,

Mas and Pas,

It lays one egg.

Not ten or twelve,

And when it's hatched,

Out pops itselve.

The Wapiti.

There goes the wapiti,

Hippety-Hoppety!

The Pig.

The pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us with sausage, ham, and bacon. Let others say his heart is big - I call it stupid of the pig.

The Wombat.

The wombat lives across the seas, Among the far Antipodes, or then again, on missionaries; He may exist on nuts and berries, Conclusive knowledge of his moods, His distant habitat precludes But I would not engage the wombat In any form of mortal combat.

The Lion.

Oh, weep for Mr. and Mrs. Bryan! He was eaten by a lion; Following which, the lion's lioness Up and swallowed Bryan's Bryaness.

The Porcupine.

Any hound a porcupine nudges
Can't be blamed for harboring grudges.
I know one hound who laughed all winter
At a porcupine that sat on a splinter.

The Fly.

God in his wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

Hope you liked it!

From,

Maya.