KTB entered the Maths Investigation competiton. We decided to investigate "Animals".
We wanted to know lots of things about animals but decided to begin with how long they were. When we went to Fairfield City Farm for our Kinder excursion, we thought it would be a good idea to measure the length of the animals we saw. Farmer Sandra helped us to do this.
We took the measurements back to school to draw how long the animals were to determine which was the longest and shortest farm animal. To do this we had to learn how to use a ruler. We borrowed our Buddies rulers and discovered lots of things about them. We learnt that rulers have numbers and that the numbers go up to 30. We also learnt to begin measuring where the '0' is.
Following this we wanted to know how long bigger animals were like lions, tigers and whale sharks were. We discovered it would be too difficult to measure these lengths with our 30cm rulers.
Our teacher introduced us to 'trundle wheels'. We had a few turns using these around our school measuring the length of ramps and our Kinder undercroft.
We then measured out the length of a lion, tiger and whale shark on the cement in our undercroft using the trundle wheel. We couldn't believe how long a whale shark was! Did you know that it took more than 10 of us lying down from head to foot to fill the length of the whale shark?
We thoroughly enjoyed our Investigation and learnt lots of things about animals and we had FUN!
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