Sunday 29 June 2014

Homework - Maths

This week choose some fraction, decimal, percentage conversions and post them in an interesting way to your blog. You might choose a rap, song, poem, story or anything you think will help you remember.
Here is my attempt at a poem.

1/2 is 0.5 - a good one to know
if you want 50% off at the show
1/4 is 0.25 - not much of a pie
"25% I wanted more," I sigh
1/5 is 0.2 - that's even less
20% a very small mess
3/4 or 0.75 sounds better
75% is a real 'go getter'
1/3 is 0.333 - that repeats
33% more would be really neat
2/5 is 0.4 and nearly a half
40% would just make me laugh
2/3 is 0.666 - another repeater
66% would be even neater
3/5 is 0.6 - making 60% (percent)
80%, 4/5, 0.8 would be more money leant
Now my brains tired from all these conversions
Try some yourself , I'm sure you can learn some!!

Mrs Stretch

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  2. Decimals, percentages and fractions
    Can leave you with no mathematical traction,
    But completely the same they are all
    Bigger than one number, but to next, a bit small,
    Do not let them become your greatest stupefaction.

    A limerick by Daniel

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    1. Your rhyming in your limerick is great Daniel.

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  3. We need to do our decimals cause we are professionals.
    We need to learn our fractions cause its the latest mathematical fashion.
    Learning our percentages is crucial so we can get the teachers approval.
    All in all we need to learn these cuz they are great for our minds to facilitate.
    By Andrew and Raymond

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    1. This is a great little poem. Well done!!

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  4. Oh...
    25 percent is also a quarter, and even 0.25,
    So amazing that it makes one want to jive...

    Oh...
    0.5 is but one half, and 50 percent,
    Such a perfect value that was just meant...

    Oh...
    Three-quarters is equal to 0.75, or 75 percent if you wish,
    A piece of a whole just quite lavish...

    Oh...
    0.2, 'tis the same as 20 percent, perhaps one puny fifth,
    A comforting conversion that won't make you writhe...

    Oh...
    40 percent has value as 0.4, two-fifths at your command,
    Double of one-fifth this brilliance has spanned...

    Oh...
    Three-fifths could be 60 percent, 0.6 given half a chance,
    An absolute equilibrium, a perfect three-fold romance...

    Oh...
    0.8 is much like four-fifths, and unites with percentage eighty,
    A mathematical phenomenon to save a day that's rainy...

    Oh...
    100 percent mimics one over one, and conjoins with 1 as a decimal,
    That is the end of my tale of this awesome arithmetical spectacle.

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