Rio Olympics

We have been planning and making transport options for the New Zealand Olympians to use to travel over to Rio.
We found out that Rio is a city in Brazil which is like Dannevirke is a town in New Zealand.
Also, Brazil is in South America and New Zealand is in the Pacific region.
We are enjoying looking at Rio and the important facts on www.kiwikidnews.co.nz.

Thank you to Daniel Lane for taking the photos!

Fractions

Room 4 have been finding halves, quarters, thirds and fifths of groups and objects.
We have been using this knowledge to help us solve our daily problems.
The big word we need to remember is share.
The question we have to ask ourselves is how many groups do I need to share this number into.

If we had to find 1/2 of 36, we would need to share 36 into 2 groups . This would make 18 and we also know this because 18 and 18 is 36.

If we had to find 1/4 of 36 we would share 36 into 4 groups which would be 9 because 9 and 9 and 9 and 9 makes 36 and 4 x 9 makes 36.

Have a look at our problem solving...