During maths we have had a task to find a maths game that would be challenging for our classmates and then teach it to them. Once I have tought it to the class they will leave a comment here and tell me what they thought about it. Then when everyone has learnet everyones games the class will have a vote for the best game.

This is my game:

PIPELAYER

Pipelayer is a game played with two grids of dots that are slightly offset from one another, as shown in the animation at the right. This example has 6×7 and 7×6 grids of dots, but you can use more or less as long as they leave each player with one longer dimension. The long dimension should be one longer than the short dimension. The rules are as follows:

·         The players take turns moving by connecting two dots.

·         No move may draw across another move.

·         To win a player must have a 2 by 2 box all connected without any of the other players lines intersecting.

In Maths we have been re-searching Ancient times in small groups. In my group of Rachel, Bailey, Joshuah and I our topic was Ancient Rome. So this is a short paragraph about Ancient Roman time recording.

Calendars include fixed periods such as days, weeks, months and years. Ancient Romans used what was called the “Julian Calendar”. They thought that there were 378 days in a year. They had dials on stones that shone sunlight on the time of day and year. Once a year there would be a special week called “Market Week” which consisted of an 8 day week. In Ancient Rome the days were named after famous Ancient planets.

This is Mrs Mc Cartney’s new maths challenge, she calls it Footy Fever Hits Grade 6…

Looking forward to doing footy maths in the next few weeks?

If so, lets kick off our theme with this new challenge; and as per usual, post your answer here at Technomaths and also on your own blog!

A set of football matches is to be organized in a “round-robin” fashion, i.e., every participating team plays a match against every other team once and only once.

If 21 matches are totally played, how many teams participated?

 The reason it has to do with footy is because our new unit in maths is footy maths. Today we were given a list of words which are Geelong’s values. When we got these words- RESPECT, PRECISION, ADVENTUROUS, CONVICTION and UNITY- we had to write them in our maths books, then we had to write what we think they mean to their team and what they mean to us.