Year 3SF 2009

Students in 3SF have been busily applying their skills and strategies on solving maths problems. After tackling a wide variety of maths problems we decided that we would try and trick one another with some of our own creations.

 

1. There were 36 flowers and 4 vases. How many flowers in each vase?
2. There were 7 spiders, how many legs are there altogether?

Mariam

3. There were 709 people and each person got eight lollies. How many lollies were there altogether?

Yenish  

4. I went to an insect museum and counted 8 spiders and 8 ants. How many legs did I count all together?

Beau  

5. David Hussey and Michael Clark made a partnership of 115 runs. How many did each player make? (there is more than one answer)

Zack 

6. There were 47 cars in a race and 25 of them crashed and 23 of them were replaced. How many didn’t finish the race?

Nihaal  

7. Suzie started work at 9:00am and worked for 6 hours. What time did Suzie finish work?

8. I saw 10 kangaroos and 13 chickens. How many legs did I see altogether?

Razan 

9. How many days in 1 week and 5 days?

10. My dad had $100 and $3 got stolen. How much money did my dad have left?

Tom 

11. If I have some timber which is 300 centimetres long and want to cut it in 4 even lengths, what length would each piece of timber need to be?

12. If Jenny has 6 chickens, 3 dogs, 12 mice, 1 donkey and 10 parrots, how many legs does Jenny and her pets have all together?

Rebecca  

13. The footy scores at the end of the game were:

Carlton 3 goals 17 points

Collingwood 5 goals 5 points

What was the final score for each team and who won the game?

Mitchell  

14. There were two boys going to the shops. One wanted two milk cartons which cost $49 and the other boy wanted to buy a lolly pack which cost $38. How much did the boys need to buy both items?

15. One flower pot fits 3 flowers. How many flowers fit in 15 pots?

Yasemin  

16. There are 5 kids and 21 lollies. If the lollies were evenly shared, how many lollies would each kid get?

Aaron.V 

17. Jack has to run 500m and has only run 76m. How many metres does Jack have left to run?

Harris  

18. There were 22 people in the Australia cricket team and 22 in the Indian cricket team. 8 people from the Indian team got hurt. How many players were left in the Indian team?

Jawad 

19. In the game Collingwood vs Richmond, Collingwood were winning by 12 then Collingwood got 2 nine pointers, 3 goals and 34 points. How many were they winning by?

20. I went to the park and saw 4 birds, 1 snail and 7 dogs. How many legs were there all together?

Aaron.M

 

21. Lily wanted to go for a run. She wanted to run 105 metres. Lily began running and ran 57 metres. How many metres does she still need to run?

Hanna

 

Answers:   1) 9 flowers  2) 56 legs 3) 5672 lollies 4) 80 legs  5) Hussey 60 runs Clarke 55 runs 6) 2 cars 7) Suzie finished at 3:00pm  8) 46 legs 9) 12 days 10) $97 11) 75cm each 12) 98 legs 13) Total score for Carlton 35Total score for Collinwood 35 therefore the game was a draw! 14) $87 in total 15) 45 flowers 16) 4 lollies each and one fifth  17) 424m 18) 14 players 19) 82 points 20) 36 legs 21) 48 metres to go

This competition is conducted annually  across Australia and in twelve other countries. There are over 1.7 million entries worldwide. The students are tested on problem-solving and high order thinking skills aspects in maths.

Koen,Yenish,Parvathy and I participated in a maths competition. Koen got a Distinction and I got a High Distinction. The test  was really hard and confusing.  My result was  34 out of 40 and I was in the top 1% of Year 3s in Victoria. I remember that one of the questions was  ‘How many factors of 27?’  and I now know that I got that wrong. To answer a  question you work it out but instead of writing the answer in the booklet there is a sheet which could say: A)27    B)0   C)5  D)4. Next to it will be a circle (A) 27 0  B)0 0  C)5 0 D)4 0). If you colour the dot with a 2B graylead you answered a question. That’s how you write a anwser in a test. I have participated in other tests too but this is my greatest result. I am very happy and proud of my result.

By Mahee

If I was 18 I would buy a really, really, really, really, really,really, really big house with 150 rooms and 20 of them would be libaries. I would also have a mega huge kitchen as big as 4 classrooms put together. The fridge in my house could be  the size and shape of 2 bagrooms and every moning when I open fridge for the first time that day the fridge fridge would say “Good Morning, it’s Tuesday and the time is thirteen past seven”. The dining hall would have a reaaaaally long table with 101 seats.

By Rebecca

If  I  was  18  years old  I  would  be  a  doctor. When  I am  18  I  would  like a car and a house. My house is going to be big and it is going to have a garage , computer room, study room and four rooms. One  room would be mine the other three rooms would be spare rooms. I might make one of the rooms a library. When I am 18 I want to have a credit card. When I am 18 I want to camp out. I want a four wheel drive.

By Razan

On Wednesday 16th of September our school had FOOTY COLOURS DAY where we got to dress up in our footy team colours. Some people dressed up in their soccer and rugby teams too. On the same day we had  pizza lunch that  Ms Hogan organised. Yum! Also after lunch we had a parade where people got up when their footy teams are called to go up and march in a circle and sing the anthem for their team. When the Collingwood supporters came up there were so many people! Keon who barracks for Collingwood had an inflatable finger that he was waving around. Thank you to all the children for their donation. We will be able to buy lots of sports equipment.

By Alisa and Hana

In 3SF we have been reading a lot of Paul Jennings stories, we are crazy about them all! We do however have one favourite book and that is Weirdest Stories. Our favourite story in Weirdest Stories is Greensleaves. Greensleaves is about a boy that is sick and tired of hearing his nickname, which is Greensleaves. This boy and his dad are not so poor but want more money beacuse they live in a an old caravan that is very dusty and want to buy a house. We don’t want to spoil the story but the boy and his father have an idea to make money. They try to work and do something useful for the whole town but this doesn’t really work to their plan.

Greensleaves is a great story to read becuase it’s very funny, especially the part when the whale explodes and the whole town stinks!

I would recomend this story to the whole school!!!

by Tia and Mitchell

Welcome to the digital age. Through our classroom blog we will be exploring the digital world and having great fun. You can add post messages to our blog and I will put things on line for you.

Lets all have fun!!

 

Ms Santavas