Rio put on a most fabulous opening ceremony!! Ours was pretty good too!
Some ups and downs for the New Zealand team......a gold rush on the water perhaps?!
Monday, 15 August 2016
Sunday, 31 July 2016
Term 3
Term 3 is underway!! Cross country on Wednesday and the Arthur Street School Olympic Opening Ceremony on Friday....hopefully the weather will be kind!
Not long until the Rio Olympics....exciting stuff!
Check out the Olympic question below, answer via the comments section.
Not long until the Rio Olympics....exciting stuff!
Check out the Olympic question below, answer via the comments section.
Olympic Measures
1. Below are some interesting measurements and records from events at the 2012 Olympic Games. Unfortunately they have been muddled up.
Can you regroup them correctly?
Can you regroup them correctly?
| Usain Bolt's 100 metres World Record | 40 | km |
| Mass of Women's Discus | 02:15:25 | mph |
| Women's Discus World Record | 1500 | km |
| Average speed of World Record Men's 50 km Walking race | 1 | metres |
| Men's Shot put World Record | 76.8 | hr:min:sec |
| Paula Radcliffe's Women's Marathon World Record | 6.16 | metres |
| Triathlon Swim (distance) | 8.77 | kg |
| Triathlon Bicycle ride (distance) | 10 | metres |
| Triathlon Run (distance) | 9.58 | seconds |
| Men's Pole Vault World Record | 23.12 | metres |
| Women's Long Jump World Record | 18 | cm |
| Men's High Jump World Record | 21.34 | hr:min:sec |
| Basketball hoop diameter | 10 | metres |
| Basketball hoop height | 01:49:55 | seconds |
| Diameter of Archery target | 7.52 | metres |
| Archers’ distance from the target | 01:46:25 | metres |
| Height of Diving platform | 2.45 | hr:min:sec |
| Men's 10km Swimming 2012 Olympics winner's time | 70 | inches |
| Men's 50m Freestyle Swimming 2012 Olympics winner's time | 122 | metres |
| Men's Triathlon 2012 Olympics winner's time | 10 | feet |
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
Monday, 27 June 2016
Newton's First Law
The 100s blocks were stationary and needed the ruler to get them moving. They eventually stopped moving because of the friction caused by the movement over the carpet.
Sunday, 26 June 2016
Week Nine - Thinking Outside the Box' questions
- Kenken
For this puzzle place the numbers 1 - 4 counting numbers in the bold sections just like in Sudoku. You are given boxes with clues with math operations. The numbers you place in each box have to make the "clue" number using the given operation.
2.Enter each of the numbers from 1 to 9 in the squares, each one only once. The order of operations doesn't apply!
Week 8 Answers to 'Thinking Outside the Box'
1. You are travelling down a road to a village. You reach a fork in the road and find a pair of identical twin brothers standing there. One of the brothers always tells the truth and the other always lies. If you are allowed to ask only one question to one of the brothers to find which is the correct road to the village, what is your question ?
Answer: If the brother you are speaking to is the one who always lies, then he will say "no" as he knows that his brother who speaks the truth would anwser "yes". If the brother you are speaking to is the one who speaks the truth, he will say "no" as he knows that his brother will lie about it being the correct road. Either way an answer "no" tells you it is actually the right road. Similarly if you are pointing to the wrong road you will get the answer "yes".
2. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is 30cm apart. The bottom rung is 30cm from the water. The tide rises at 20cm every 15 minutes. High tide peaks in one hour.
When the tide is at its highest, how many rungs are under water?
Answer: None, the boat rises with the tide.
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