Coding robots

In Te Ngahere the students that were up to date were allowed to go into the Whare with Whaea Becks & code robots. When we got to the Whare we had to pair up with someone then we had to go to settings & click on sphero & it took us to a robot coding screen, then we had to connect the robot. After we had connected the robot we got to start, the first challenge was to make the robot move forward, turn around  & come back to us, that took a long time for us to do. After we had completed that we had to put colored papers of the floor & make the robot go up to it & change the same color as the paper, Emma. T & me didn’t get to do that, but we had lots fun anyway.

Math DLO

In Te Ngahere we have been learning how to double & halve. We had to make a math DLO, first we had to write how many slides we were going to make & give specific information about what was going to be on each slide. Then we had get it checked by someone & show a teacher.

Next we had to create a new slide & start, on the first slide I made a title page, on the second slide I did what we were learning & why, on the 3rd slide I had shown how it works, on the 4th slide I did why would I use this strategy & why it works & on the 5th slide I had to show some examples.

The strategy

Doubling & halving is simplifying a big multiplication problem like 6 x 14 is the same as 12 x 7, you would usually halve the bigger number & double the smaller number but if you can’t halve the bigger number it can sometimes be easier to double it - E.G - 13 x 4 would be the same as 26 x 2.

I enjoyed making the DLO because I kept making mistakes & then I can learn from the mistakes. Next time I could try to read it out loud a bit more to check if it makes sense.