Dovey!

Five Rectangles

Here's a maths challenge, taken from Gary Antonick's 'Numberplay' in the New York Times:

Create a set of five rectangles that have sides of length 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 units.

We tried it with Cuisenaire rods:

After we'd found five rectangles with those side lengths, we recorded them using the Cuisenaire Environment:

Here are more pictures:


 Then we started looking at the area the rectangles covered.

We got total areas of
120, 121, 123, 125, 130, 154, 161 and 184.

Next question: what is the biggest possible area?

Alicia answered this - use the biggest side lengths on the same rectangles:

Area = 190

Can you see why this is the maximum?

And then, what is the smallest possible area?

Mimi answered this one - use biggest and smallest lengths on the same rectangle:

Area = 110

Can you see why this is the minimum?

We finished this investigation off with a small puzzle: 

Make these rectangles, and then see if you can make a square by putting them together:

 1x6 4x7 5x8 3x9 2x10 

 3x6 4x7 2x8 1x9 5x10 

1x2 4x5 3x8 7x9 6x10

 1x2 4x6 3x7 8x9 5x10

This one bent the rules a little...!

On a walk!

Have fun with my friend mini! But remember to never say no!

From a birds eye view!

Piggy and Doggy chatting!

Clara and Rozenn's Awesome Scratch Project

Alicia's and Abi's Underwater scratch!

Press the green button and play!
     

Pablo & Maia's Minion Invasion

Catch the Fish

This is Ryan and Jesse's Scratch project:

Build with Chrome: Lego

I recently discovered Build with Chrome:

https://www.buildwithchrome.com/




It lets you build something in Lego somewhere in the world.

Year 4s - first you sign in to your @intst.eu account and then... build!

My first experiment was a very small house in Paris:

A night walk in Marseilles

What might it have felt like to be the cat Varjak Paw as he walked around town at night?

We could get some idea by having a stroll round Marseilles at night time (open this in Chrome):

promenadenocturne.withgoogle.com

Here are some of us exploring:

Alicia's Scratch

Here is my Scratch project

Rozenn and Maia:Varjak's journey

Press the space bar.

Horsey and Frog - Frog having a ride

Pablo and Fernando's Varjak Journey

Claudia's and Clara's scratch

Varjak's Journey By Alicia and Penny

This is our Scratch project for Varjak Paw:

Varjak's Journey by Niamh and Sanika

Amelia and Cristina... Varjak has an adventure

Varjak's Amazing Adventure - Ryan and Mimi