Inquiry: Ruler Reflexes

This week for inquiry, we learnt about human reactions. We had a small challenge that included simply a ruler, a partner, and our reactions. Our task was to attempt to grab a ruler as fast as possible. We were given 3 different reactions to test. Visual, where we had to grab the ruler just by watching it. No count down, go or anything. Next was aural, where we had to close our eyes, and where only told "GO" for when we could attempt to grab the ruler. No countdown, no looking, no touching, just a simple go. Finally, was touch. We closed our eyes, no words, just a tap on the shoulder letting us know when to grab. The partner that I was given was John, and we had a lot of fun working together. What we needed to do next was graph our data. Although to make it even better, we were to group up with another pair and graph all of our data in one big graph. So for this, we chose to work with Jack and Tiava. We had a lot of fun all working together, and in the end, made a pretty great graph.

Hypothesis

Sanujan - I think that I would be best at test 1 because my eyes send messages to my brain fast.

John - I think that I could be good at test 2 because I think that I am great at listening.

(Test 1)

	Sanujan	John
1	24.5	16.5
2	11.8	24.1
3	0	29.7
Total	66.3	60.7

(Test 2)

	Sanujan	John
1	12.6	11.4
2	12.8	0
3	27.8	15.8
Total	53.2	57.2

(Test 3)

	Sanujan	John
1	10.4	13.7
2	18.6	11.9
3	13.6	21.4
Total	42.6	47

KiwiSport - Rippa Rugby - Week 5

Today, we had kiwisport. This week for rippa rugby, we learnt many things. The first thing we did was simply play a game of octopus with rippers. We had played 3 games of this altogether, and we had an incredible amount of fun. The next activity we did was a few real games of rippa rugby. There were 3 teams altogether, so there always needed to be a team on he side line. For the last activity, we got into our groups, and had a little passing challenge. We needed to run in groups of 3, 1 person in each group. Then we would pass that ball to the person to our right. We did this a few times, until the session came to an end. We had a lot of fun in this activity, and the others, and I personally cannot wait for the next session.

Fence Post - Maths

Today during maths we were to finish off tasks we did not finish either this week's tasks, or the previous weeks tasks. In this problem we needed to find out how many corner posts and regular posts would Savelina have to buy to enclose two adjacent paddocks. We found this task quite easy and hard at the same time because there were some bits that we struggled with, like writing a blurb in the DLO. Although in the end we solved it. We learnt a new word, adjacent. It means something or someone next to each other. For this activity, I worked with Jack, Sanujan, and Ofa.

Maths - Fraidoon & Alex - Salary

This week for maths we are busy finishing off work and posting it on our blog. For one of our maths task we were given a maths problem about salary. I worked collaboratively with Jack, Ofa and Julian. At first we were doubting each other of which answers we were right or wrong. Then we went over the maths problem with Ms Kirkpatrick. At the end we were all wrong but we learnt a lesson by Occam Razor that If there is no evidence to the contrary, the simplest answer is correct. In this problem we tried to add up all the big numbers without using the calculator and and after we've got our answers it turned out to be right. I think next time we need to agree with each others opinions.

Travel To School Data - Maths

This week for maths, our task was to figure out this statistics problem. We found out that most primary students get to school is by car and most secondary student get to school by bus. After that we survey all the students in Ms Kirkpatrick's maths group. According to our survey most of the student in Ms Kirkpatrick's maths group get drop of school by car and the least amount of students come to school by bus. For this task I've decided to work collaboratively with Jack and Ofa.

Mathematical Me - Maths

This week for maths, our task was to blog one of the pictures we had taken for week 1's Mathematical Me activity. The picture that I chose was of me testing whether the width of Jacks nose is the same width as one of his eyes. This turned out to be a true fact, and Jack and I found this really interesting considering that everyone else had been measuring from one edge of someones nose, to the point of the nose, and finishing on the other side. Although whenever someone measured this way, it would always be false. So when we realised this, we tried to measure the width from one side of my nose, under the point of my nose to the other side. Once we had tried this strategy, we found out that this was the correct way to compare the width of an eye to a nose, and that they measure at the same width.

Writing - Fake Iphone Text

"Hey Arge!" Pike exclaimed.

"Hey Pike!" Arge replied.

"How are you?" Pike asked. 

"I'm good thank you." replied Arge. "How about you?" asked Arge.

"Same here." said Pike. "Hey do you want to hangout?" asked Pike.

"Sure!" exclaimed Arge. "Just let me know where we're meeting up" said Arge.

"Got it, the library would be auspicious" Pike concluded






Today for writing we did something very different. The task we were given, was to create a fake iphone conversation using iphonefaketext.com. With this website you can create fake conversation. The main reason why we did this activity was because we can revise our punctuation. Firstly we were to go on that website. Then we were to write down a name. This name has to be made up. What I meant by that, we're not allowed to pick a common name. For example "Johnny". Johnny is a name used in a many movies and T.V shows. I've decided to pick very very uncommon names. I chose, Arge and Pike.

After we've finished write down our conversation, we were to blog it in a writing format.