Egg Experiment

 

Hey Bloggers! 

On Wednesdays for tech, I am in the Afternoon group which means we leave at 12:00, so we have a session in the morning and we have started doing science! last week we did a moon experiment and this week we did an Egg Experiment, we had 25 minutes to create a plan and construct a safety protection for our egg. Our supplies were 3x sheets of A4 paper, 1x sheet of A5 paper ( a bit thicker ) 1x plastic bag, 2x lengths of sellotape, 1x meter of string, and last of all 1x egg, after the 25 minutes Mrs. Osborne dropped the eggs off the mezzanine floor in our Makerspace. Sadly our egg didn't survive but we were pretty happy with our design, it had lots of cushioning and we had wrapped it pretty well but it was a bit sad that it cracked. 

Do you think it was a good design? Would you have designed it differently? 

Please leave me some advice if anything is wrong. Blog you later! 

Tidying up and Compensating Numbers

Hello Bloggers! How was your Holiday? 

In Davies Maths ( My maths group ) This week we have been learning and working on how to tidy up and compensate numbers. In this blog post, I will be explaining how to tidy up numbers and also compensate them. To start this you have to first have 2 numbers for your equation e.g 132 + 76, you then have to either subtract or add to make one of the numbers a number ending in zero like 132 -2 + 130 now you have the tidy number you have to do the opposite to the other number like this, 76+ +2 = 78, now you have your new numbers the equation is simple, 130 + 78 instead of 132 + 76. Now for subtracting your numbers now are 132 - 76, now we can do 132 +8 to get 140 but with the 76 you have to add as well so, 76 +8 to get 84 now you have 140 - 84. So there is how to Tidy up and compensate your numbers to make an easier equation. Did you know how to do this before my post? Do you find it easy to do? It would be very helpful if you could leave me some of your feedback by leaving a comment. Blog you later!