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