How long did it take?

On Wednesday afternoon we complete different maths experiences and activities as a class. Usually, we have Maths in the morning but on Wednesday we have Music and Te Reo Māori so Maths has to wait until the afternoon.

This term we are focusing on time, using clocks, watches and our I-Pads to learn about analogue and digital time. Today we made estimations about how long it would take us to different tasks.

We ran around our class in a circle. Vigo and Joe were the fastest, they only took 6 seconds to run around our class. No one took longer than 8 seconds so we were all pretty speedy.

Then we made estimations about which would take longer. Running the width of the court or the length.

These people thought the length would take the longest.

These people thought the width.

Then we tested to see. Once we had our results many of us realised that the width was faster because it was a shorter distance.

This helped us later because our next estimation was how long would it take to make a tower out of multi-link cubes. The catch was that our challengers all had to make towers of different heights. As an unexpected challenge some of the cubes wouldn't fit together well. Poor Andrew had a really bad run trying to find cubes that would click together. Our estimations were correct, we guessed that Tyne would be the fastest because he only had to make a tower of 2, Andrew would take the longest with the highest tower and Vigo would be in the middle.

Tyne 6 seconds (2 cubes)
Vigo 19 seconds (5 cubes)

Andrew 2:24 (2 minutes and 24 seconds) with (7 cubes)














Then we used our I-Pads and timed each other writing our names. People with long names took longer than people with short names. We thought this would be the case but we checked lots of times- mostly because everyone likes timing each other on the I-Pads. Some people saw the international clocks on the I-Pad and had questions about these. We noticed that when the stopwatch on the board got to 59 seconds it flicked over and started again. We talked about how there are 60 seconds in 1 minute and this was why. Then we watched all the minutes flick over- nothing like watching time fly.

On the Maths page of our blog Mrs Walker has added the site we used today to time our block building. When we use other ones she will put them there.