Today, we started looking at how to use the split strategy to solve division problems. This strategy is all about knowing how to partition a number so that its 'parts' are individually divisible by the divisor. For example, if the problem was 1140 divided by 4, the number can be broken into 1000 + 100 + 40 as each of these numbers is divisible by 4. Then we divide each 'part' of the number by 4 and add the results together. Ask your child to show you the working out for this example and perhaps an even trickier one: 1185 divided by 3. Cody.G was quickly onto this one today - good job, Cody :)
During Science today, we investigated the distance of the planets in our solar system from the sun. As these distances are in billions of kilometers, we looked at them in terms of their scaled size. We watched a great video that demonstrated the scaled distances of our inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) from the sun and their size differences using an odd man in a silver suit, a school oval, complete with footy goals, and some high speed footage of the man stepping out the distances. We might do this out on our own oval one afternoon, without the silver suit.
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