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Thursday, 3 September 2015

Thursday, 20 August 2015

Library Referencing

Referencing a non fiction book.




Solway ,Andrew. (2005) What’s living in your classroom?,
 Heinemann: Oxford.

Face painter

The first maths activity I did was called Locating Faces.  I had to estimate how many faces there are and then after I had to paint the faces and see if I was not right.


The  second maths activity I did was called Predicting Faces.  I had to estimate how many faces there are and then after I had to paint the faces and see if I was right.



Thursday, 23 July 2015

Dewey Decimals

Decimals


Non-fiction books are arranged on the shelves numerically.
The books are given a decimal number according to their subject.


Try putting these numbers in order.


1.001 2.362 3.500 4.593.9
5.610 6.629                  .7.37.5 8.745.5
9.808.8 10.994


Look through the non-fiction shelves in the library.  What subjects do you find at these numbers.


004-Computer Science

796.3-Athletics
500-Science Mathematics   
821-English poetry  
993.1- New Zealand history


At what Dewey Decimal number would you find the following subjects:
Myths and Legends? 753
Fashion? 687
Inventions? 608
Birds? 598
Fairy tales? 398.21