Thursday, January 22, 2015

Times Tables Activities 2


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Put the timer on and choose the times table you want to practice.  

This activity is suitable for everyone
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Create your own times table quiz and practice online.  Keep track of your score.  
You could also time yourself to improve your speed.
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Lots of activities to choose from.  Try the “match the outcomes to the times table” activities first.  
Drag the correct answer into the right spot.
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Shoot the airplane with the correct answer.
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Answer the times tables questions correctly to make your car go faster and faster.  See if you can win the race!
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Choose two numbers that multiply together to get the chosen answer.  You need to go fast to win the game!

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Multiplication and Division Activities


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Practice multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000.  

Choose a level that suits you best.
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These game teaches you to use arrays to help with multiplication.

This is a good activity for those still learning multiplication
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This activity also helps with multiplication by teaching you to use arrays.

This is a good activity for those still learning multiplication
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This Pobble activity is a little bit more difficult using arrays to help you learn multiplication.
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This activity using arrays will help you understand Fact Families a lot better.  Give it a go.

Everyone should be able to try this activity.
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This activity introduces you to division with remainders using arrays.  You need to put the word problem into a number sentence.

It is quite difficult.  Make sure you follow the instructions.
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This activity teaches you about division.  I suggest you watch the tutorial and follow the instructions carefully.  

Everyone should be able to try this activity.
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This activity teaches you about division.  I suggest you watch the tutorial and follow the instructions carefully.  

Everyone should be able to try this activity.
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This activity is for those people wanting to learn to multiply two digit numbers by one digit numbers in their head.  It helps you do this using the PARTITIONING strategy.

You have to know your times tables to do this activity.
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Only for advanced users!  This is extremely difficult (two digit by two digit)!

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Being a Responsible Energy User

Use this activity to figure out how you can be more responsible with your energy use.

Click on the picture below to go to the site:

Advantages and Disadvantages

Explore the advantages and disadvantages of the different sources of energy using this great activity.

Just click on the picture below:


Monday, January 12, 2015

Sources of Energy

You can use these links to help with your research for your persuasive presentation at our Science Conference.

Biomass Energy 

Wind Energy

Geothermal - Advantages and Diusadvantages

Nuclear Energy - Advantages and Disavantages

Wave Energy

Tidal Energy

Solar Energy

Hydro Energy - Advantages and Disadvantages

More Resources (For Those That Need Them)
Wind Energy and another here and here.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Balancing Equations

1. Watch the video and complete the questions.  Good luck.


2. Now try these activities to get your brain warmed up so you can be balanced!


3. Another interactive video to help you with  balancing equations.


4. Balancing Equations Activity  - Now try this online game.

Choose the difficulty of question that best suits you and try to balance the equations.  Do a few at a level before trying a more difficult one.


5. Online Quiz - If you're feeling confident, try the online quiz by clicking here.



6. In your book, write down the answers to the questions below.  Make sure you label the answers properly in your book.   The questions start easy, but get more and more difficult.  Good luck!













Renewable Energy




Tiki the Penguin - Energy - easier to read, shorter paragraphs

Alliant Energy Kids - a lot more detail about each kind of energy

ESchool Today -Includes some very helpful diagrams


Sunday, January 4, 2015

Mathematics Quiz Show



This is a great little maths game based on a great show called Jeopardy.   We will play it in class and I will make others for you as well.


Click here to go to the game about adding, subtracting and multiplying,

Click here to go to the game about Patterns and Sequences.


If anyone wants to try making one themselves, let me know.  It doesn't have to be about math either.  It could be about Energy or even Minecraft!