My Math's learning story

Zion’s Learning Story

Your journey towards life will include MATH!

At Porirua College, there are 220 boys.  132 boys choose to wear a lavalava. E.J says that this percentage is because Porirua College students have a strong Samoan identity.

Do you agree that the percentage E.J worked out is enough to show that Porirua College has a strong Samoan identity

What the problem is about:

132 kids at Porirua College want to wear ie lavalavas and the rest want to wear shorts and there is 220 in the total of people. The kids who want to wear lavalavas are Samoan and we have to find out if E.J is right or wrong about the percentage.

How we solved the problem:

10% is 22    20% is 44    30% Is 66     40% Is 88    50% Is 110    60% is 132    70% is 154    80% is 176  

90%  Is 198   100% is 220

How I learn in a group: I am good at sharing confidently and clearly in my group and so other groups hear our ideas (and not being shy)

I am good at the beginning to be a mathematical person  because I love taking risks during every learning I do

I am getting better at asking questions because I was shy about having questions that didn’t  even make sense but now I’m not scared of speaking up

I find it hard to describe our learning and to make sense because I am over excited at some stages during maths so I don’t what to say so I say things that don't make sense

A key competency I use really well is relating to others because when they are going through different difficulties like when they are in the pit I would try and help them

A key competency I need to work on is participating and contributing cause I help people when they are stuck in the pit

• My next steps are to share my ideas secretly because my ideas may be right.
• Our problem is about kids from Porirua college arguing about wearing either ie lavalava's and EJ is doing a diagram to solve it we used did a chart that showed us percentages of all the kids.
• we have been learning different strategies for different equations