Recently, we have been doing 'Brain Gym', where we do exercises, all to music, like drawing figures of 8 in the air with our hands, balancing on one foot and right elbow to left knee etc. Since September, we have covered ordering, multiplying and dividing decimals, fractions, probability and handling data. We spent quite a time on each, making sure we understood everything fully. Our maths lessons really help us to learn as best we can and Mr. Silverton is a great, and funny, teacher though sometimes he does like to talk!
Here is a recent maths question we looked at. Mr. Silverton has a weekly question. Can you work out the answer?
A snail climbs a 10m high wall to reach a tasty lettuce leaf. It can reach a height of 3m an hour, but then has to rest for an hour, during which time it slides down 2m. How long will it take our speedy snail to reach the the top of the wall and its tasty lettuce leaf?
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We think the snail will manage to eat the lettuce after 15 hours - bet he'll be hungry!
Trevor and Fiona
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