Mathematicians at LPS

Our 3/4 students and teachers continue to work with our Maths Specialist on a weekly basis. There are some wonderful things happening in our classrooms and our students are fantastic little mathematicians. This week when Ms Patterson visited the 3/4's we did...ALGEBRA! Wow! And our clever kids did an amazing job!

The task was to create the diagram below and figure out the number of tiles needed to make the designated arm length.

 

We looked for patterns to help us figure out the number of tiles for any arm length - without having to make it!

 

We realised that we could make a rule that applies to our problem.

 

Like good mathematicians, we tested our rule.

 

Then we used Algebra to write our rule.