Maths Learning Story

How do we solve a tricky math problem as a group?

There are no expectations of knowledge and no limit of mistakes-Zion

Xiah’s family’s waka ama team and Brooklyn’s family’s waka ama team are training for Nationals. They want to see how far they can travel in 5 minutes. Xiah’s family team travelled 1.32km in 5 minutes. Brooklyn’s family team travelled .86km in 5 minutes.
How much further ahead were Xiah’s family’s team?

When I and my group solved this problem we thought of a good thing to start off so we can be able to understand each other’s ideas/smarts.

We first started with  86/.86 + something = 100

I knew that 86/.86 + 14/.14 = 100 so our first number was 14/.14 but we had some more left and it was 32/.32  so 32 + 100 = 132 and in decimal, the decimal point always has to be in between the one and tenths.

 So it was 1.32 and we had to add the amount of numbers we added so we did .14 + .32 which = .46 and that was how we knew the answer that's how far Xiahs family went

I want you to know that I am good at explaining confidently and clearly   because I love being in front of a lot of people

I am also good at asking questions  because I want to know if they understand what I am doing

The key competency I use well is thinking because I connect math with what I already know

I want you to know that I need to work on participating and contributing  because I get angry whenever we do maths quite a lot each day

The key competency that will help me next time is managing myself because I can think twice of what I'm doing wrong

 I want you to know that I find it hard to not get distracted from others because I can get distracted easily

Rylee’s Feedback

You were good at explaining and justifying your reasons
You needed to work on nothing because you don't need to work on anything

You were good at  supporting like saying do you get it and  sharing strategies with other people that you don’t  usually  work with

You need to work on nothing because you already know  that you don’t need to work on anything  else