Tyson @ Panmure Bridge School

     This week for maths, our learning was based on the Olympics. This task was about Nastia Liukin.  The Olympic sport of gymnastics is judged with a point system. Nastia Liukin, an uneven bar champion scored a disappointing 16.725 in Bejing putting her in second place. Her opponent beat her by 0.001 of a point. The Bronze medal winner's score was a 14.975.What was the Gold medal winners score? By how much did Nastia score over the Bronze medalist?

  LI: To plan a night out that fits within the given budget of $45.00 A budget is a plan for managing money. Budgets can be made for an individual person, a family, a business, a government or a country, they can be made for anything or anyone that makes and spends money!  For maths this week we have been continuing with Financial Capabilities. Independently we wrote down our answers in our maths books. For this activity there was a budget of $45. The smith family went on a trip to the Museum. There are 2 adults and 3 children in the Smith Family. We calculated the different options and prices the Smith Family would've spent with their $45. On the DLO above, Me, Farzana, Juel, Fau and Micah created a DLO explaining our answers. 

 LI: To be wise with your money. Today we played a game, it was about money. Marlon from ASB came to talk to us about how to save and spend money. In the game there were teams of 5 players and there was 5 teams. In our teams we had $1800. We were going on a trip to Fiji .We had to pay for our ticket, passport, accommodation, life insurance, and the activities that you would do when your at Fiji. There were different options for ever questions. I really enjoyed playing the game it was so fun.