Probability

My heart pounded as I wondered which Talent Development task to do. Maths, Music, or Art? I was stuck as I adore Maths and I really wanted to do Music as I play the piano and flute so I would have knowledge of which music notes were which and know what everything is. Oh and Art, I love art but I couldn't resist doing maths so I made a call and turned to the maths corner. I was a bit disappointed that I didn't do Music though, but I  found out I could do it next week so that solved that problem.

Maths:
The maths strategy we learned was Probability. I was relieved as I knew how to do it as I have learnt it at school. Probability is when you estimate. Our group was working with percentages and tally charts. One of the tasks we did was role a dice that was a 1-6 dice. That might sound like a lot but it wasn't really, it felt like I was in my own little world of numbers, decimals, charts percentages and more. I find it quite a fascinating pattern. Back to the topic! While Katie was calling out what number it landed on we had to record it. The end results were: 1 got 6 marks and the percentage was 12% (I will show you how you get the percentage after) 2 got 5 marks and a percentage total of 10%, 3, 9 marks and 18%, 4, 11 marks 22%, 5, 8 marks 16% and finally 6 got 11 marks and a total of 22%. To get the percentage you use your brain and think, since we rolled the dice 50 times out of six we then just times it by 2. Which makes number 1's percentage 12%. Then you do the same to the rest.

Task 2:
Make a 6 times 6 graph which is 36. Imagine that we use 2 dice. The numbers for that would be 2-12. Then think to yourself, which numbers on the dice would add up to 2. Which would be 1 and 1 so you would write it like this 1,1. Then we use stairs to show our working out. 1,2 make 3 so you put that under 1,1 because your going up. You go all the way up to 12 and then if you are a visual spatial person you can colour in the stairs for each number.

Task 3:
CHOCOLATE!!! No, no, no not eating the chocolate before we do the maths with the chocolate! Using the chocolate to do the maths. We did the exact same thing as the first task but get one person to tally it while we sorted the chocolates into groups. Put all the Flakes with the flakes, the turkish delights with turkish delights etc... We did that 50 times. Before we chose a chocolate we knew that there were more flakes then anything else. So we knew that people would probably pick flakes the most and  cadbury dream the least, as there was only one.
 RESULTS!!!! Why did I put results in capitals as we already knew that flake would be the most chosen and dream would be the least! Our prediction was correct. Don't think that we didn't get a chocolate afterwards for doing all that problem solving! Why wouldn't you get one! I chose Turkish Delight. My favourite.
I found Maths really exciting and different as we would not do things like that at school.

'Til next time,
Clara

Perfectionism/Drama

No, no, no, where's 16! Oh no I'm going to run out of time to finish! Ohhhh what to do, what to do! "STOP!" roared Darryn as he  made a halt to stop the timer at one minute.
So you probably have no idea what I am talking about which is a real shame, well not really because we did it for NOTHING! Except for putting us under anxiety! Like really I thought this was a Gifted school not a Goofy one!
So what we had to do is find as many numbers as we could (of course they were jumbled up) and circle them IN ORDER from 1-60. Most people got up to 20 and a little more. We did it four times and on the first go I got 19! Second go I got 15, only because I was struggling to find 16 and that wasted 10 seconds of my time which made me very irritated. On the third go I got 20, and the last and final go I got 22! Yeah! My personal best! But, no, no, no there was this one girl called.....Neave and she got  29! 29! The last go was in 30 seconds and she still got that unbelievable time, that's just incredible, so go her! That task was called Perfectionism.


Next Fun Task:

Drum roll please................DRAMA!

Yay! Even though I don't really like Drama I love giving things a go and putting myself out of my comfort zone like last year when I did Drama, I was so nervous but I still got there.

And so one of the activities was to get into a circle and hold hands like a big jubilant family (not!) and choose some people to have a hoop on them. Then what you would have to do is get the hoops all the way around the circle with out letting go of your hands or letting the hoop fall to the ground, and if you didn't you would have to stand back and watch. But there were only a few people that had to watch but not much. Of course as gifted students of Enrich we accomplished that task.

Task 2:

Musical Bumps!

A bit like Musical chairs really but a twist. When the music stops you must fall to the ground and cross your legs as fast as you can. The last person to do that sits back once again and watches. I got up the last 10 people which was a pretty superior effort really. The winner(s) were Natasha and Jemmimah!

Task 3:

Musical Bumps with a new twist:

Well the task is exactly the same but joined with another person back to back. The rules were you had to land with crossed legs on the ground at the same time and back's together, not together together but touching. My buddy was Reina and we were hopeless, I really have to say.

Ta Da,
Drama Tasks complete!

So that was a description of part of our day.

Until next Friday, Goodbye.