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:
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 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.
Today we had to do a worksheet about temperatures for maths. Next, we had to research the hottest and coldest countries in the world and create a DLO about them.
It was kind of hard because there were so many different websites saying different things.
