Understanding Fractions

Page 37 Understanding Fractions



(C) cut the cake
There are 36 chocolate evenly spread around the edge of the cake how many chocolates are there in three quarters of the cake?
Given answer:27
I cut the cake in quarters And then counted 3 of the quarters Then the answer that I got was 27.

B)   How many chocolates are there on 5 sixths of the cake.
     Given Answer:30
How Did you work it out?: I cut the cake into Sixths instead of quarters Then I counted 5 of the 6th that we're on the cake.

C) One Fifth of the cake has 6 chocolates how many chocolates on the whole cake.
Given answer: 30
How I worked it out: There are six Chocolates on each fifth There are 5 fiths in a whole cake So if you times 5 x 6 = 30 so 30 is your answer

D) 3/8 of the cake have 9 chocolates how many chocolates are on the whole cake  ?

Te Hokowhitu-a-Tū: The Pioneer Māori Battalion

Last week we were learning about Te Hokowhitu-a-Tū:  The Pioneer Māori Battalion  and it was about how it was not fair on the Maori, and this was one of the questions.

• What have you learnt about the way Māori were treated, in New
• Zealand and in Europe, during the First World War?

The Maori were treated horribly  because in Waikato people got picked
out and had to go to war no matter what.

New phone

Based on a fiction story                  New Phone


BOOM. My mind was wondering what it was, eyes were fixed on knowing what this was. As I grabbed the scissors, I slid the scissors through the plastic and cut it open. WOW, a new iphone. My hands were twitching and my eyes and mouth looked like an O. Oh wrong house.

My Mihi

My Mihi

Kia ora koutou katoa

Ko Aoraki töku maunga (my mountain)

No Māwhera ahau (where I am from)

Ko Endeavour töku waka (my canoe or the boat my ancestors came on)

Ko Māwheranui töku awa (my river)

Ko Pākehā töku iwi (my tribe)

Ko Shaw-Jeff töku ingoa whanau

Ko Kelly töku Mämä (mum)

Ko Greg töku Päpä(Dad)

Ko Jonas töku tungane (brother)

Ko Lily töku ingoa. (my name)

Tēnā koutou katoa

Hundredths and tenths

The past two weeks my group has been working on hundredths and tenths.
This is wairini and I's DLO