Where in NZ is Koka Ngaire?

Last week our teacher went missing. Koka Terri was missing her partner in teaching crime so we set out on a mission to find her.

We had to use the clues she had left to help us figure out where she was.

                          

We organised a Google Hangout with her and were allowed to ask her 5 yes/no questions to help us locate her. In our Buzz groups, we discussed which questions would give us the most information and narrowed them down to our top 5.



In the end, we asked these 5 questions:

                                                 

During our Google Hangout we had to write down Koka Ngaire's answers and then use these to help us to narrow down Koka Ngaire's exact location. She made it tricky by moving around the country!

In the end, we managed to figure out that Koka Ngaire landed in Christchurch, drove to Akaroa then headed off to Hamner Springs.

Lucky we were super detectives so she is back in class this week!

Digital Technologies Unplugged!

So, we've all heard of Digital Technologies... but what about when we they go 'Unplugged'?!

Today in Koka Ngaire's L4 Maths Strand group - we did exactly that!




Our goal: to rescue Derek
Why: to learn about coding (writing sequential instructions) and position
How? we had a bot, a programmer and a tester.
The bot: listens to and follows instructions exactly.  Does not say anything
The programmer: writes the instructions.  Can not say anything while the instructions are being given.
The tester: takes the instructions and gives them to the bot.  Checks for 'bugs' in the programme.
We thought we were pretty good at giving instructions.... UNTIL we had to give them to the tester!!  We then found out that one little 'bug' can stop the whole programme from running.

However, after lots of 'fixes'.... Derek was definitely rescued!