Thursday+15+Oct

Continue working with your partner on the M&M challenge:

Design a mathematic activity or challenge that uses M&Ms to teach maths. 1. Work out all the details of your activity or challenge between and your partner. 2. Make all the things you will need for the challenge. You can use counters or cardboard or paper circles for M&Ms in the meantime. 3. On Wednesday next week you will be asked to demonstrate your activity/challenge. 4. You will be assessed on the following: The winner of the challenge will receive the M&Ms needed for the activity.
 * The level of maths that you are demonstrating - is it easy or hard? e.g. something with fractions or decimals would be more appropriate than whole numbers.
 * The understanding of the maths you are demonstrating - do you understand what you are doing?
 * The level of the challenge - was it really challenging or too easy?
 * The creativity of your activity/challenge - how original and creative is it?

You will also need to enter this challenge into your eportfolio. Make a new page and explain what, why and how you completed the challenge. Include photographs.

Make sure your eportfolio is up to date. You should have your tangram animation in and an explanation about tangrams with it - use wikipedia or similar to find out more about tangrams and their history.

Make sure your achievement page is up to date with your Otago Problem Solving results and any other outstanding results entered.

If you finish the above you may go on with the work below in your book.

1. (x + y)(x + 2y)

2. 2y(y-3)-3y(y+2)

3. 5 - 2(8x + 4)

4. 8 + 7(7n - 4)