Paralympic Swimming- Maths

 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.

Paralympic Medals- Maths

Today for maths I read about how many gold medals Great Britain and Northern Ireland had got at the Paralympics since 1996. Then I had to create a bar graph about it.

I created my bar graph on Google Spreadsheets. It took me a while to figure out how it worked but I managed.

Tesla Bot

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!

Adding fractions with different denominators

 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.

What would I ask?

 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.

Denmark mini research

In week 2, we did mini researches on countries that were competing in the Olympics. We were given letters and we chose a country that started with that letter. I got D, so I chose Denmark. I then made a poster about it.

This was really fun to do and I enjoyed making the poster.

-Denmark-

Where?

Denmark is a country in Scandinavia, Denmark.

Prime minister: Mette Frederiksen

Population: 5.84 million

Capital: Copenhagen

Currency: Danish Krone

Queen: Margarethe II

Facts

-Denmark was home to Hans Christian Andersen and has a Little Mermaid statue

-Greenland is owned by Denmark

-Danish has no word for please

Language

To say hello to anyone, just say "Hej" which is pronounced "Hi". To say Goodbye say "Hej Hej" or "Farvel".

Bike Culture

Denmark is known for its biking! Only 4 out of 10 Danes own a car, while 9 out of 10 own a bike.