Yesterday me and Jake went to Holywell High for a MAT maths day. We went in and sat down to a table and then we met our teacher for the day. There were also some older students as well = Jack, Josh, and two other girls who I can’t remember 😉 .
We started off with fractions. We have done a lot of adding and subtracting fractions so it was quite easy. Me and Jake were the ONLY ones to go straight on to section C – they all said it was too hard, but we STILL found it quite easy 🙂
We then had a break with toast and orange juice mmmmmmm 😉 We did a little more + and – with fractions and then we moved on to Multiplying and DIVIDING with fractions which we had never done. The X – ing was simple = you times the numerator X numerator and the denominator X denominator and there’s your answer. For dividing she showed us a video of how you do it = KEEP, CHANGE, FLIP. You KEEP the first fraction, CHANGE the divide sign to a times sign and FLIP the second fraction. So say it was three fifths – it would flip to five thirds which was a bit confusing 😉 I got it though.
We had lunch, which was good, and then after lunch we carried on X – ing and dividing. We then did some percentage work which was easy. Jake struggled on it a bit. 😉
We then did this grid which had proportion, fraction and decimal questions on. The last bit we did was a fraction washing line. We had a WASHING LINE and pegs and we had to put the fractions IN ORDER (any fraction we wrote by the way) in between 0 and 1
By that time it was two thirty so we headed downstairs to meet Jake’s mum and Archie (Jake’s brother) said, “Look – it’s that girl from the car, AND Jakie!” We got back and when we walked through the hall I felt like a celebrity 🙂