Maths Olympiad 2011

Yay!! Today is the Maths Olympiad. On the 10th of August 2011 it was the Year 3 Maths Olympiad. In the Maths Olympiad we had two groups of four people.  We have to anwser 20 question in 30 min.  It was very hard to anwser a question.  When it was done the Maths Olympiad people got a certificate.
It was so great!

NZ Maths Week

Kia ora katoa,

It's NZ Maths week! 

At EPS we will be having a Maths Olympiad for Year 3's on Wednesday at 11.15 until 12.00. Come along and support our two Room 16 teams!

Register on the following website and start clicking to play games, do puzzles, answer tricky questions and win great prizes!!! It's free and anyone at school in New Zealand can play.

Times Table practice

We are learning multiplication and division over the next few weeks. Try out this link to practise your times tables!

Times table practice 



Have fun!

World Maths Day!

Today is World Maths Day!  

We had a discussion in our class about why maths is important and how we use it every day - when we go shopping, playing games like Monopoly, Yahtzee, measuring ingredients in baking, looking at diferent shapes and patterns etc.  

To celebrate World Maths Day we went outside to play a game called "Ordering Numbers".   First we got into four teams.  Each team had an icecream container with a set of number cards from 0 to 9.  

The first person had to run to the icecream container, get one card and run to a spot, place it on the ground, then run back.  Then it was the next persons turn.  The team that finished first with all their cards in the right order had to put their hands on their heads.  

Mrs Melville checked to see if they were correct.  Then we played again but this time we had to order numbers from 10 to 20.  Lastly we had to order the numbers in 2's from 0 to 20.  

We had a lots of fun!  Next time we will be even faster...