FUN WITH MATHS

Today (26/10/10) we went to the library for an Incursion to do fun things with maths. The person who helped us was called Greg. First we got a partner to work with, then we sat on the floor and listened to Greg's instructions. He asked Lathan and Jack to volunteer to show everyone how to do the chain activity. The chain activity was when you and your partner were chained up with two chains and you have to try and untangle yourself without taking the velcro wrist bands off, it was very tricky. At the end Mrs M and Mrs R showed us how to do it and it took them 3 seconds.

There were 30 activities, some were called Skyscrapers, shoes, pick a wand activity, the marble race tower, different kinds of puzzles, making a cage for T-rex, number puzzles, weighing activities, treasure search activity, train activity, building the same castle as your partner without looking and the landing pad. These activities were called PROBLEM SOLVING ACTIVITIES. We found out that problem solving was tricky but lots of fun if we WORKED TOGETHER and TALKED with each other and GAVE SOLUTIONS to each other. We found out that there were lots of different ways to solve the problems.