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Digital Media in the Classroom
Students use a range of digital tools to share their learning in the senior school. Each student has a Chromebook or a device brought from home (BYOD)…
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A Balanced Diet
A Balanced Diet - with this title you may expect this blog to be about healthy eating. It is, in fact, going to be about math.
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Beautiful Butterflies
The butterfly life cycle is a thrilling process to observe, especially when it is happening right in front of you. In Room 16, watching tiny caterpill…
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Silly Snakes
‘Snakes’ is such an interesting word. It starts with the blend ‘sn’ and has a bossy e at the end so the letter ‘a’ is a long vowel (says it’s name). T…
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Mathematical Repeating Patterns
Room 14 explored how to create repeating patterns and the attributes that are included in these patterns.
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The Art of Patterns
In mathematics, Room 16 have been learning about patterns and repeated patterns. We took it a step further by integrated the learning into literacy an…
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Designing A Maths Game
Our thoughts turned to revising and consolidating our basic maths skills. In a writing activity Room 13 students explained what their need was and how…
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Money, Money, Money
If you are at Wairakei Primary School, Taupō, you may have heard some senior students mention that they are being ‘paid’ at school. You have not mishe…
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Which way do we go?
How do we know where we’re going? We’d probably end up in Timbuktu if we didn’t know.
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Do the Mahi. Get the Treats
There is nothing like chocolate to motivate some hard work thinking. Fair sharing a giant block of chocolate was a deliciously rich mathematical task …
