The Facts About Coastal Seas

 This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about coastal seas and about the marine life that lives in them. We watched an episode of Our Planet coastal seas  on Netflix and recorded ten or more facts that we found out. Then we had to record the facts on a Google slide.

For me it was hard because I was distracted watching the video instead of writing them down but then I started to right the facts down so I could make the Google slide. The easy thing way copying the facts onto the Google slide then fixing them up and the other easy thing was to add pictures to show what the marine life look like.  I learnt that the

Have you watched Our Planet? Do you know anything about coastal seas? Did you know that otters eat food to keep warm?

Why You Shouldn’t Use Place Value For Subtraction

 This week in Te Ngahere  we have been learning how to solve word problems in Mathematics. When you are doing maths I would recommend not using  place value partitioning for subtraction, because it can be really hard to  solve subtraction using place value for example if you had 732-521 you wouldn’t be able to take the 30 from the 20 because 30 is a higher number than 20 and you wouldn’t be able to take the 2 from the 1. I would recommend using the number line instead. 

For me it was hard to use place value for subtraction problems but the easy part way to use place value for addition, The second hard thing was when I way trying to figure out with some of the question if they were subtraction or addition. 

What strategy would you use to solve subtraction problems?