Maths Able Day - Salma K and Sawdah C

Yesterday we were not at school, instead we were at Broadgreen Primary school where we joined the Maths Able Day with Mr Pete Hall.

When we arrived, our group was early so we got to play some fun word games.

For a starter we looked at incorrect maths people have sent him on Facebook (which he did not understand). They were complicated but we got through it anyway at the end.

Later on during the day, Mr Pete Hall showed us correct maths that was still complicated that he has taught in the past. There was a triangle with 6 circles and we had to put numbers from 1 to 6 inside the circles and add each of the sides together and put the total in the middle of the triangle and we kept doing it and tried to get the highest and lowest number.

The triangle practice in progress 

After play, we did something different, Mr Hall gave out pencils and sheets of paper ( which he flipped over so that none of us cheated). Then he put on a maths program called Big Maths Beat That.
The program is basically a timer which has music in the background. When it said go we flipped over our paper (which had 72 additions and multiplications) each of us got 1 minute and a half to get as many answers as possible done in the time given (you can chose how many minute or seconds you would like your timer to last ).

After that, we had our lunch (yum yum) then we went outside were we made new friends and played on there climbing frame

When we came back in sir taught us how to use the magic square it is a 3 by 3 square grid that had numbers that people around the world think is magical .

After learning about the magic square, we learnt how to make chinese tangrams. There are 7 different shapes that we needed to make other shapes out of e.g. square, swan, right angle and triangle.

Overall the day was amazing we enjoyed being apart of Maths Able Day and meeting Mr Pete Hall.

Stranded (TeacherGaming) - Asad P and Yunis S

Stranded

Right now Kingsley school is trying a service called Teacher Gaming. In year 5 we are trying a game called Stranded. Read these facts below to learn how you could survive in this game.

Stranded is a shelter base game were you have to obtain happiness and other resources, don't get confused with Minecraft.

In Stranded you always start with 16 months. Each turn will progress one month and every one of your turns will only have 3 energy. Energy is what you can use to explore, get wood and do other activities. This makes it hard to obtain happiness.

Based on exploring, you can find different types of resources. If you're lucky enough you can discover different types of buildings like a hot spring and other buildings. Using a quarry you can find a new place where you can get stone.If you get wood you can make different types of buildings. You can even get buildings by having stone and you can get schools to boost your energy. 

The main goal in this game is to collect happiness.You can get happiness by using different strategy. For a starter you can increase your happiness from 100 to a big score by making shelters, campfires, schools and level up buildings. When you start you will have 100 happiness, you might lose some because you need shelter and food.

You also have to use maths to see your resources. Each turn you have to make sure you have at least 100 food to keep people happy and safe. Every turn you can vote for different types of buildings,shelters (which all cost different amounts of wood and stone) and some times you can save up your resources for the next turn. We had to persuade each other of what to build and we had to use teamwork to do it. Each turn you will lose happiness if you don't have enough food or shelter.

The whole class enjoyed this game and we all worked as a team. We are looking forward to beat our high score.