Wednesday 25 June 2014

Things to prepare

Dear all,
Hope you have a good holiday and completed all the asdignments that were required to. On Monday, i will be collecting the onsponge books.
Meanwhile, i need you to prepare an exercise book for secret recipe and an exercise book for Weekly Platter.

Why Weekly Platter, since we are chefs, and we have our secret recipe, we need to be able to whip out a platter.

Meaning for platter-
a course of a meal, usually consisting of a variety of foods served on the same plate.

What do i mean by prepare the books?
To number the pages like how we did for the secret recipe n mental sums.
Prepare the first 3 pages for content page n you start numbering your page 1 on the 4th page at the top corners.

See you on Monday when school reopens. There will b supplementary class Monday, 30 june 2014.
BRING YOUR THERMOMETER on monday.

Friday 20 June 2014

Mathematician Card

Dear all,
Remember the Mathematician card you did some time back in March, the standard is really way below expectations.

Many of you did not give your best.

I need you to redo some of the questions and submit to me on Monday when school reopens. Please present your answers neatly.

Question 1
Choose a 5-digit number. Write down the place values of all the 5 digits in your number.

Question 2
If a square table can seat 4 people, find out how many tables will be needed to seat 40 people if the tables are joined in one row. (Show your working)

Question 3
Draw a figure with 6 equal sides. Show 2 ways how you can shade  2/9 of the your figure.

Question 4
If 6 people shake hands with each other once, how many handshakes will there be among the 6 people?
 ( Show your working)

Question 5
Find out the birthdays of 10 of your classmates. Use tally to count the number of birthdays in each month. Present your data in a table and a line graph.
(Note : You have to make a tally count, draw a table to show the data and then draw a line graph)

Question 6
Ali goes swimming every 3 days while Raju goes swimming every 2 days.If they met at the swimming pool on 1st January, how many more times will they meet in January. What are the dates that they will meet in January?

Question 7
Draw a figure that has both parallel and perpendicular lines using a set square and a ruler. Label the ends of the lines and write down all the pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines in your figure.


Question 8
Create a card or board game using any of the four operations involving whole numbers. Include a brief description on the rules of the game and how to play the game. ( If you need to present this on a A3 or A4 paper, please do so. You may want to make your game aesthetically appealing, meaning look nice. You can make use of the computer to help you with the design. The most appealing and creative game gets a PRIZE!!!!)

Please take PRIDE in your work!!

Love you all,
Mrs Mak




Solve these questions

Dear all,
Try these questions on a foolscap paper. Draw your model and it would be good to do your plan.

Question 1
Shane had twice as many hairclips as Alice. Terry had twice as many hairclips as Shane. Terry then bought another 50 hairclips. Shane made some hairclips and Alice bought another 260 hairclips. In the end, the three girls had the same number of hairclips.  How many hairclips did Shane make?


Question 2
Carl and Gary went shopping with the same amount of money. After Carl spent $450 and Gary spent $94, Gary had thrice as much money left as Carl. How much money had each boy at first?

Question 3
A box contained 217 blue, green and red beads.There were thrice as many blue beads as green beads and 18 more green beads than read beads. How many red beads were there?

Question 4
Ramy had some stickers. After giving 130 stickers to Dan, he had twice as many stickers as Dan. Dan had  155 stickers in the end. How many more stickers did Ramy have than Dan at first?

Question 5
Joe collected 8 more game cards than Ivan. Nick collec ted twice as many game cards as Joe. Joe and Ivan collected a total of 274 cards. How many more game cards did Nick have than Ivan?


Love you ,
Mrs Mak

Friday 13 June 2014

Answers to Onsponge

Dear all,
Hope you have made good use of your time to work and play hard.
Deron, there is no error on Pg 107 Q3.

Please note that Pg 100, Q4 there is an errata.

At a carnival,..... 1/3 as many children   adults as adults  children.

Mark your answers with a blue pen.

 Pg 15 - 18                              Pg 21 - 22                 Pg 27 - 29                 Pg 33 - 35
 Q1. 7.45 pm                           Q1.  19500                 Q1.  9                      Q1.  42
 Q2. 40                                    Q2.  37450                 Q2.  6                     Q2. 710
 Q3. 30                                    Q3.   560                    Q3.  370                 Q3. 11200
Q4.  120                                   Q4.  54                      Q4.  7440               Q4. 3600
Q5.  43                                     Q5.  2790                  Q5.  56                    Q5.  40              
Q6.  39                                     Q6. 939                     Q6.  42                   Q6.  630


Pg 99 - 101                                   Pg 106 - 108                            

Q1.  28                                           Q1. 70            
Q2.  48                                           Q2.  51
Q3. 175                                         Q3.   22
Q4.  252                                       Q4.  750
Q5.  21                                         Q5.  3/25
Q6.  30                                          Q6.  Clint - 48 , Emma - 70


Pg 120 - 122

Q2a. 100                         Q3a.  195
Q2b. 100                         Q3b.   60
Q2c.  80                          Q4. BC = 6 cm,  AC = 6 cm
Q2d.  80                          Q5. ACD = 10
Q2e.  180                               BCD = 40
Q2f.  180                         Q6. 35


Meanwhile, I need you to read up on decimals. Go to MConline --- Math --- P4 -- Decimals.
DO self directed learning on Decimals first and try the tutorial and quiz and practices.

Remember to log in next Friday.

Love you,
Mrs Mak


Tuesday 3 June 2014

On Sponge

Dear all,
Please complete the following pages in your Onsponge Book

Wednesday ( 4 June) Pg 120 - 122
Thursday  ( 5 June ) - Pg 106 - 108
Friday ( 6 June) -  Pg 99 - 101


Monday ( 9 June ) - Pg 15 - 18
Tuesday ( 10 June) - Pg 21 - 23
Wednesday ( 11 June) - Pg 27 - 29
Thursday ( 12 June) - Pg 33 - 35

Do remember to time yourselves for every exercise done. Set yourself  a maximum of 5 minutes per question, so you should not spend more than 30 minutes for every exercise.

I will provide the answers to the questions on Friday ( 13 June) and you will mark your answers using a BLUE pen. For any CORRECTIONS, please show all your workings. If you cannot solve them despite "cracking" your brain and using up all your "brain juices", circle the questions so that we can discuss them when school reopens.

Meanwhile, make good use of this holiday to READ newspapers and watch the NEWS to update yourself on what is happening in the world and in Singapore.

Do  keep yourselves fit by exercising and remember to play ( physical like riding bicycle, jogging, skipping , etc, not just IPAD!!)

Will Miss all of You for 1 month,
Mrs Mak