Tuesday, 27 October 2015

Te Tiriti o Ruma 12B: Creating and signing our class treaty.


Te Reo - Talking about how we are feeling.


Writing - early stages: Using exemplars and planning templates

Using exemplars to create Success Criteria & inform planning.



Weekly communication to parents and caregiver

Kia ora parents and caregivers, 

I can't believe the end of Term 3 is already here, it has come around so quickly!
Here are the reminders for the week ahead: Monday 21st - Friday 25th September. 


HOMEWORK: 
  • Reading
            * 20 mins minimum each night 
  • Maths: Probability
             * Probability Maths sheet due Friday 25th
             * Monster Maths Flashcards - Basic Facts learning/revision
             * Extension Maths students have their own Maths homework


REMINDERS:
  • P.E Monday & Tuesday
  • Technology Monday & Tuesday
  • Room 13's 'Funky Monkey' cafe on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evening. Call the school to book a table - going fast.
  • Final Elective on Thursday
  • Year 7 Social on Thursday, 6 - 8pm. Formal dress, Students to bring $4 (to go towards soft drinks) and their permission slip on the night. Please collect your child from the hall at 8pm.
  • Year 7 Sports rotation Friday morning - Will need P.E gear and drink bottle
  • School Assembly on Friday 1.30pm - HNI SPEECH COMPETITION - Good luck to Holly!
  • Maths books are filling up quickly so replacements in time for next term would be appreciated.
  • Reminder that students are to wear their summer uniform in Term 4.

Have a great week everyone and I hope the sun hangs around for the term break!


Kind regards,

Ashleigh Pitt

P.S. Please check out and comment on our class and individual blogs: Room 12B's Blog

Te Reo/Tikanga Maori - Mihimihi

Students learned their mihimihi in Term 1 to help develop and practise their use of Te Reo and understanding of Tikanga Maori.

Maths through Art

Demonstrating reflection, rotation, translation and symmetry through art. Opportunity for students to use their visual/creative abilities to explore mathematical concepts.


Wednesday, 9 September 2015

Statistics Planning & post-lesson reflection



Achievement Objectives:
Statistical investigation:
• Plan and conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle: – determining appropriate variables and data collection methods; – gathering, sorting, and displaying multivariate category, measurement, and time-series data to detect patterns, variations, relationships, and trends;
– comparing distributions visually; – communicating findings, using appropriate displays.
Statistical literacy:
• Evaluate statements made by others about the findings of statistical investigations and probability activities.
Probability:
• Investigate situations that involve elements of chance by comparing experimental distributions with expectations from models of the possible outcomes, acknowledging variation and independence. • Use simple fractions and percentages to describe probabilities.
Week two: Looking at different types of data (quantitative and qualitative), multivariate, time series & measurement data - Discrete vs Continuous data. How to display these. Looking into what good questions are.
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What are different types of data? How are they different? How do we display the different types? What is the difference between discrete data and continuous data?

Discrete: counted
Continuous: measured
Quantitative:
Qualitative:
Times Series:
Multivariate:


L.I: Reaching conclusions based on qualitative data
L.I: Recognising patterns in time series data


  1. Discuss what time series data is and the best way to graph it

  1. 2. F.I.O L3-4, p.2-3
   Whole class activity: Students work with a buddy, go through activity step by step as a class.


L.I: Comparing related but different data sets

  1. Show a scatter plot that displays different sets of data to be compared.

  1. F.I.O L3-4, p.11
‘Where’s my bus?’



L.I: Exploring the relationship between two variables (multivariate data)

Looking at measurement data

F.I.O L3-4, p.12-13
‘Fish Figures’

Need: a computer spreadsheet or graphing program

L.I: Coming up with good investigative questions

F.I.O: L4, p.4-4
‘What’s the question?’

What makes a good question: Checklist

Use data cards from NZ census to write investigative questions

Reflection:
We covered numerical data: discrete and continuous and categorical data. Didn’t get on to ordinal data or that categorical data can be numerical
Instead of this lesson we did a follow up activity about data types and graph types. Did lesson on drawing a pie graph by hand, using percentages & protractor etc.
Need to continue this - David, Luis, Sean

Used Google sheets for graphing but can only make basic pie, bar, line graphs etc. Need to find site for making histograms etc
are they using the right type of graph for the task? Data & Answering the question