For the past week we have been filling all the gaps in maths that we need to before high school. One of the things I didn't really know how to do was short division. First I had to learn about it. I had to look on maths buddy for videos and lessons on it. I watched the videos and did the lessons. Next I made a slide to explain how to do it.
Here is my slide:
We watched a video about making a polyline drawing on Google Drawings. The person who made it said that you got a photo of someone famous, and then you drew over it with the polyling tool. I couldn't really think of anyone, so I just chose one of my favourite YouTubers, Dangthatsalongname (Smajor).
It was kind of annoying to do because the line that you draw has to be long enough otherwise it stops you from drawing it.
Today I did a sheet in ordering the times of different paralympic swimming events. It was pretty easy to do because all you had to do was find the lowest number and then that would be the fastest, and the highest number would be the slowest.
Today I did the weekly current events quiz. One of the questions was about what Tesla is planning to make, and that was the Tesla bot! This question was pretty easy because I had watched a video about it before!
I don't think that we should let robots do things like this because we might become what we are in the movie WALL-E.
I hope you enjoy this blog post!
Today I watched a video from Khan Academy about adding fractions with different denominators.
The questions I did were:
9/10 + 1/6 = 1 1/15
1/2 + 11/12 = 11 5/12
3/4 + 1/5 = 19/20
The video talked about how you took the 2 fractions you were adding and found the highest common multiple of the two denominators- in 9/10 + 1/6 it was 30. Then to the 1 in 1/6, you did to the 1 what you did to the 6 to get to 30, which was multiply it by 5. It became 5/30. Then I did the same to the 9/10, and the question got changed to 27/30 + 5/30 = 32/30. Then you half it to simplify it, becoming 16/15. Since it's an improper fraction I made it 1 and 1/15.
This was not very interesting because I already knew how to do it, but it was interesting to see what questions I was given.
Because of lockdown, I had to write down questions about COVID-19 that I would ask Ashley Bloomfield or Jacinda Ardern. I would ask these because I don't know a lot about the Delta Variant.
