Transum, By Melissa

This morning for Math we tried out a new website called Transum. It had games about all the different subjects/topics you have in Math. First I tried a game called Addle. It was about Addition. You had to add up the given numbers to get the answer that was already filled in. It wasnt that hard. Hopefully they put more sums in and make it more challenging by putting answers from 500 to 5000. The next game I played was called Car puzzle. I dont really know what it had to do with math but I found it challenging when I got up to level 5.

Heres a link to the Transum website: http://www.transum.org/Go/

Geometry, By Melissa

Last week we were learning/trying to cement the knowledge about geometry into our brains. Our first task was drawing a rectangle and then drawing random straight lines in it. We ended up with all sorts of different shapes. We then chose 2 different colours along with a black colouring pencil. I chose blue and purple. After colouring in all the shapes we had to cut it out and then glue it into our math book. After that we had to cut out some shapes and form a rectangle. Next we got a worksheet of a flat shape. We had to figure out what it made and then cut it out. The first shape I made was a cube. The shape after that was a cone. After cutting out the shapes the rest of the class had to explain the different shapes there are and how many sides, edges, faces and corners they have. Unfortunately I had to leave, but i'm pretty sure I have cemented some of the shapes of geometry.