Monday 16 April 2012

Harthill Primary School Problems

Here are the answers from our pupils to the problems suggested by our friends from Harthill Primary School

Kieron's Cats

Kieron Problem


Maisie the Mouse
Maisie the Mouse


3rd grade, Colégio Monte Flor, Carnaxide, Portugal

Monday 2 April 2012

Kieron's cats

Kieron has three cats. Each cat is a different weight. The first and second weigh 7kg altogether. The second and third weigh 8kg altogether. The first and 3rd weigh 11kg altogether. What is the weight of each cat?

Maisie the mouse!

Maisie had between 30 and 50 breadcrumbs. She counted the breadcrumbs in fours and had 2 left over. She counted them in fives and had 1 left over. How many breadcrumbs did Maisie have?

Monday 26 March 2012

Flashcards - Problems


Flashcards is a great tool to use by pupils and by teachers! At Colégio Monte Flor we are huge fans of this web 2.0 tool created by Miscrosoft. You just need a windows live/hotmail account. If you don't have it's easy to creat one.

This year, our 3rd graders have been using a lot and so we decided to create a Flashcard Deck with some funny problems you can solve during Easter Vacations!

Access this Flashcards Deck by clickin here.

Colégio Monte Flor, 3rd Grade

Mouse Mischief Activity

Dear Math Fans and Partners
We bring you here a very cool PowerPoint Presentation to use with Microsoft Mouse Mischief! We already posted on this blog a resource like this one before.
For those who don't remember here is a brief description of what is Mouse Mischief and the link to download it.

Mouse Mischief integrates into Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, letting you insert questions, polls, and drawing activity slides into your lessons. Students can actively participate in these lessons by using their own mice to click, circle, cross out, or draw answers on the screen.



Here is the resource.


You should download Mouse Mischief first, install it on your computer and then you can download the presentation by clicking on the bottom right corner of the presentation above and then click on Download . Follow all these steps, other way you'll not be able to use the interactive presentation.

Sunday 4 March 2012

Spring tasks from Lithuania are waiting for you

The distance between Tom‘s house and school is 1 km. He went  2/5 km and remembered that he had left his schoolbag at home. What was the distance he went to no purpose?
Goda 5a

Tom had 7 sweets and Martynas had 5 sweets more than Tom. Eve had 3 times more sweets than Tom and Martynas together. How many sweets did children have all together?
Evelina 5a

Eve had a nice birthday cake. She invited seven friends to her party. How can she divide the cake into eight pieces making only three  cuts?
Rugilė 5a

       It’s Easter Bunny basket with eggs. How many triangles can you see?

Greda 5a

There are rabbits in the forest. They are fed three times every day.  They get 3 kg of carrots, and 2 kg of cabbage. How many kg they get every week.
Rūta 5a


The  ambulance on its way to the hospital met three vans, two cars and a horse. How many cars were driving to the hospital?
Gabrielė 5a

Good Luck

Tuesday 31 January 2012

:-)

There are 24 students in the 5a form. Outside  -24 degrees below zero. Guess-how many students came to school? Correct answer- zero:-)

So-sorry, but we are taking a short break. My students are at home and we can't post any new tasks. Let's wait for better weather. Have a nice week:-)


Laima



Sales-Εκπτώσεις


Αυτή την περίοδο στην Ελλάδα έχουμε εκπτώσεις. Με δεδομένο το οικονομικό πρόβλημα της χώρας και της αγοράς, μπορεί μερικές φορές να βρούμε ένα προϊόν καλής ποιότητας σε χαμηλή τιμή. Έτσι αποφασίσαμε το πρόβλημα του μήνα να αφορά την περίοδο των χειμερινών εκπτώσεων.

Η Έλενα ήθελε να αγοράσει ένα φόρεμα για το γάμο της ξαδέρφης της. Της άρεσε πολύ ένα που βρήκε άλλα της φάνηκε ακριβό, 250 ευρώ. Ευτυχώς είχε εκπτώσεις και στη βιτρίνα του καταστήματος η ταμπέλα έγραφε 40% κάτω από την αρχική τιμή. Πόσο ήταν το ποσό της έκπτωσης; Πόσο πλήρωσε τελικά η Έλενα για το φόρεμα;

Αν ο μισθός της Έλενας είναι 800 ευρώ το μήνα, θα θεωρούσατε το φόρεμα φθηνό ή όχι;


These days it’s the sales period in Greece. Given the financial problems that the market faces we can find, in some cases, high quality products in low prices. Thus, we decided our math problem to be related with discount.

Elena wanted to buy a new dress because she was invited to her cousin’s wedding. She found a dress she really loved but it was quite expensive, 250 euro. Luckily it was sales period and the shop’s window had a big label “40% off the original prices”. How much was the discount? How much did Elena pay for the dress?
If Elena’s salary for the month was 800 euro, do you consider the dress’s price cheap or not?


6th grade, 13th primary school of Drama, Greece

Thursday 19 January 2012


Pedal bin

What shape is this pedal
bin?

Try to match the squares on
the floor with their reflections in the bin.

How many squares can you see
in two places: on the floor and reflected in the bin?

What happens to the straight
lines on the floor when they are reflected in the bin?
Tevfik İleri Anadolu Lisesi ,Rize,Turkey

Saturday 7 January 2012

Berlindes / Marbles

O Ricardo deu metade dos seus berlindes ao seu amigo Miguel, mas quando chegou a casa, a sua mãe tinha um saco com 25 berlindes para lhe oferecer. No dia seguinte, levou todos os seus berlindes para a escola e quando lá chegou reparou que, pelo caminho, tinha perdido 9 berlindes, uma vez que no seu saco já só tinha 18. Quantos berlindes tinha o Ricardo no início?



Ricardo gave half of his marbles to his friend Miguel, but when he got home, his mother had a bag with 25 marbles to offer him. On the following day, he took all his marbles to school and when he arrived he noticed that, along the way, he had lost 9 marbles, as in his bag he only had 18. How many marbles had Ricardo at the beginning?

Sunday 1 January 2012

Hair Dryer

Hair Dryer

The picture shows the
ventilation holes in a hair dryer.
There are 9 holes in the
first circle and 12 holes in the next circle. How does the pattern continue?
Try to figure out an answer
before counting the holes in the picture.
Figure out the total number
of holes without counting them.

Rize Tevfik Ileri Anadolu Lisesi ,TURKEY