The Maths Blog

Hey, longtime no see. Today we have some more bothersome maths tales.

So today at school me and my fellow class whom I had no idea what were doing, tried out some more maths. Like the last blog it was more problem solving, depressing right? Well this time it wasn't so bad because the problems weren't that hard. It still took some time to figure out what the problem was asking me to do.  Unlike certain days this was a lone wolfs time to shine (not really) but you get what I mean. Today I learnt that I tend to overlook the question which leads to loss in time, also that is what I need to work on. To solve these two questions, I read through the problem to find the clues, can you do it too?

The Mystery Of Tupaia

Welcome back hope you didn't miss me to long. I am going to pick you up on the journey about Tupaia. First i'm going to tell you who he is. Tupaia was known as a navigator, translator, voyager, artist and a high priest. Mostly he travelled long and wide with Captain James Cook. They came to New Zealand not knowing that it was a thing. Where did he come from. Tupaia came from a small island from the french part of Polynesia. His islands name was Raiatea. He was well known as a high priest navigator. He unexpectedly, came to New Zealand while voyaging for new islands. On Tupaia's way back to England he died to a sickness called pneumonia, also he had scurvy. I found Tupaia's adventure very fascinating and it's sad for it to come to an end.     

HIGH STAKES!?!? MATH (GONE WRONG)

As pressure over comes me, I start to seize up. Hold on let me tell you how I got to this point.

Hi as you know my name is Kahutia, your probably mad and want to read ahead, but I would like you to stay.  On the 13th of August, me and my fellow classmates learnt about how to find the rule of the problem. We were presented with this problem

 We had to find a way to figure it out, my group decided to use a t-chart, if you would like to further investigate what it is, use papa google. after we worked it out we put down our answers, as you could see that the question in the image. For our answers we got, 26, 66, 146. and our rule was: each Kaho we added makes 4 Tuinga. We had to present this was our time to show our work. I couldn't help but shake "I can't do this" I thought 

but I went with it, our performance was terrible but we marched through like troopers. Here's a slideshow of how we solve them.