Designing The Layout Of A Classroom

Recently our brand new classes were finished and we moved into them yesterday. The math classroom had moved and the teacher asked us to create a design process about how we would lay out the room.

The Brief:

How could you rearrange the room.

Research:

There are 24 small blue desks.

There are two tall whiteboard tables.

One cupboard, Tv, and computer table.

And lastly two whiteboards.

we need to account for doors and windows.

Ideas:

Here are some ideas we came up with.

Final Idea:

This is our final idea, the one we liked the most.

Evaluation:

In my opinion it was a really good design, the chairs and tables don't look like they would get in each other's way. The whiteboard and TV are easy to see, and There are a lot of different numbers of tables in a clump for different people. the desks don't get in the way of the doors, so people can get in and out.

What do you think?

Design A Math Game

In math we realized that we didn't know very many math words or synonyms for plus, minus, multiply and divide. To fix this we made word clouds and games:

Here is the slide with the word clouds:


And here's our slide for the game this includes all the planning and ideas:
 We were using the design process, starting  with the brief then you research, come up with ideas, make it and finally evaluate.

Calculating Squares On A Grid

In math we have been learning how to calculate the number of squares on the outside of a 10x10 grid. We have been figuring out ways to figure out the number of squares on the outside of a grid. I will explain two ways to do it, a complex way and a easy way.
First the Complex way:

Find the total number of squares by timesing one side by the other side. Then remove the squares around the outside and times the new side by the other new side. Afterwards minus the smaller number from the bigger number and you have your answer. You can do algebra by changing the ten to n and the 8 to n-2.

Now the easy way:

If the sides are 10 then you can times them by four then you can minus four this works on any number. See told you it was easy, you can also do algebra with this one by changing it to 4n which means 10+10+10+10 minus four.

Now you know how to calculate the square on the outside of a grid, so tell all your friends and act like a nerd if you want to. Also comment any other ways you can think of doing it.