Mysteeq's Maths learning story

Mysteeq’s Maths Learning story

Rylee wants to find out how many students at Corinna School would like to do an activity involving skateboards and bikes in their lunchtimes. She sends a survey to 205 students. The survey results come back to her as percentages.

How many students want to do each activity?

Activity	Percentage	Number of students
Bike track	40%
Skate park	60%

Mistakes in maths are showing you are trying.

In maths we have been learning how to find a percentage  to a certain number.

First of all I drew a number line to show where the 40% and the 60% is. I figured out that 100% was 205 so I halved it to make the 50%. And I halved 205 which made 102.5.If 50% is 102.5 I need to find the 10% to add and take it away from the 50% to make 60 and 40 percent.I was fiddling around and I saw that if you take away one zero from the 100% it will make 10% then I put a decimal point in between the 20 and the 5 and it made 20.5.

My important learning was to find 10% and a knowing of mine is that you could divide the whole by 10.

The group norms I used were participating and contributing by always staying in my group and making sure I am focused and I’m on the learning waka. This means helping others too.

While I was in  my learning group I used the Key comp  of managing self by not getting distracted and making sure everyone in my group was focused so that we can get on with our task and complete it for e.g (When I was sitting on the mat and listening to Helen.Someone was trying to talk to me I ignored it and I didn’t get distracted.)

My next steps are to be able to work with anyone and to not be fussy of who I work with and how I work with them.For e.g (when my group is called out and it’s a group I don’t wanna be in I go “oh damn!”)

“Mathematics is the most beautiful and powerful creation of the human spirit” (by Stefan Banach)