Titi's 2016 Reporting Blog

In math's our problem was about having a competition to see who could hop, skip and jump the farthest. Philomena and June were involved. In the first go, Philomena hopped 1.01m, skipped 0.97m and jumped 1.57m. June hopped 0.89m, skipped 1.11m and jumped 1.5m. Philomena reckons she’ll win because she is the fastest and can get the best run up, but June reckons it will be her because her legs are longer. The question was: Which of them is right and by how much did they win? First, my group added all of Philomena’s events together because we wanted to know the total. First, we did: 1.01m +0.97m +1.57m = 3.55m. 3.55m is the total of Philomena’s events altogether or in other words, it is the results. Next, we were trying to find out June’s results. First, we did the same as what we did before. So just a reminder if you have forgotten what we did before we added all of June’s events together because we wanted to know the total. So next we did: 0.89m +1.11m +1.5m= ...