maths LS

Timata's Maths  Learning Story

Term 3 2019

How do we solve a tricky math problem as a group? 

Eluama’s family in Tokelau tells him to get some coconuts. He climbs three different coconut trees. He climbed 3.06m up the first tree, 3.97m up the second tree and 2.57m up the third tree.  His friend climbed 3 different trees. The first one he climbed was 2.97m, the second one he climbed was 3.08m and the third one he climbed was 4.32m.  Which of them did the most climbing that day?

Eluama:

First, we added the whole numbers 3+3+2=8m then we added the 10ths
.5+.9=1.4m then we added the 100ths .06+.07+.07=.2m after that we added
it all together to equal 9.6m.

His Friend:

We did the same by adding the wholes 2+3+4=9 then we added the 10ths
.9+.3=1.2 after that, we added the 100ths .07+.08+.02=.17 after that we
added them all to get 10.37.

Eluama’s friend climbed the most that day.

I want you to know that I am good at Making connections because of I
understand my group ideas and I agree with my group when they have
an idea I understand.

I am also good at friendly arguing because if there's an idea I don’t agree
with my friendly argue with my group to make sure they can understand that
it may be wrong.

The key competency I use well was thinking because I share my ideas to
the help of ways to solve/maybe think of a rule.

I want you to know that I need to work on managing self because I am not
taking risks in maths to help solve/ find a rule

The key competency that will help me next time is relating to others
because I need to relate to others to make my group understand and to
understand my group.

 I want you to know that I find it hard to focus on math and to listen to
others.

Tristan’s Feedback

You were good at using good detail because you explained clearly how you
were good at those things and what you needed to work on.