Akomanga Kaihanga Projects - Term 2

For term 2 projects, I joined up with Kurtas, Saia, Tata, and Mathew to implement our project based on improving and maintaining a 'rain garden'.

Throughout the project, a challenge that genuinely appeared to me was adapting and adjusting to our timelines. I personally struggled to complete the practical tasks, especially with the theoretical tasks within their time limits since I was heavily relied on by my team. Our project involved a lot of ideating and prototyping before we got physical, so time mostly wasn't on our side. However, I challenged myself to finish most of the theoretical tasks by spending most of my spare time at home to improvise and get things done that would support the project. Another challenge we faced was taking in a lot of information from differing ideas/topics and processing it, remembering the key things. I struggled to cope with learning in our usual timetable classes while simultaneously worrying and trying to work on our projects. In the end, I was fortunate to have my peers learn beside me and would constantly support each other including myself in the learning areas we lacked.

I really enjoyed term 2 due to the challenges I faced. Looking back, I'm glad I took those challenges head-on since it also exposed me to different methods of learning and having fun. A new passion of mine I recently discovered was that I'm into gardening. I was never bored of the rain gardening we did in our project and I've always been eager to resume our project since the term ended. It was fun and of course educational which is why I love it.  Furthermore, the learning trips we took were extremely helpful. My group's travel to the Botanical Gardens was very educational and aesthetically entertaining. I was able to remember and process what we learned much easier since we were physically involved; as opposed to listening to a teacher teach or reading, I'm engaged but not enough.

Pentagonal Base Prism

 

10KME using GeoGebra to make the Pentagonal Base Prism. Image Below 

Greenhouse

 

Math Revision (2020/2021) Part 1

 

Multiples, Factors & Prime

Prime numbers	Prime numbers are numbers that have only 2 factors: 1 and themselves. For example, the first 5 prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, and 11. By contrast, numbers with more than 2 factors are called composite numbers.
Composite Numbers	In math, composite numbers can be defined as the whole numbers that have more than two factors. Whole numbers that are not prime are composite numbers, because they are divisible by more than two numbers.
Multiples	A multiple is the result of multiplying a number by an integer (not a fraction).
Factors	A number or quantity that when multiplied with another, produces a given number or expression. A number divisible with a product with no remainders is a factor.
The number one	1 (one, also called unit, and unity) is a number and a numerical digit used to represent that number in numerals. It represents a single entity, the unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of unit length is a line segment of length 1.

Subtracting Integers 

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Multiplying & Dividing

Order of Operations 

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Rounding

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Significant Figures

Waitangi Day

 The Treaty of Waitangi is a contract between the British Crown and the Maori Chiefs from the North Island of New Zealand to establish a relationship between the former rivals. It was signed by a former Lieutenant-Governor, William Hobson in 1840, 16 of February and was also signed by the Maori people using Maori translated Treaty. Henceforward in 1934, the Treaty hadn’t been celebrated yet until then. 

Up to now, there are people who accept this event as a day to celebrate every year; and those who are in opposition to this day being a “happy uniting day”. Citizens that celebrate Waitangi Day see it as the day the diversity in New Zealand was finally united and purified. Some also see Waitangi Day as a general public holiday to be with family and friends, which is great. Excluding this are a type of people who cannot tolerate this being a public holiday, and so petition that it’s a day of shame for New Zealand--remembering the violence between two races--” there’s no point! ” says Mike Hosking on television.

I myself can understand the perspective of both groups against the two different things, but however, I support the statement of it being a day to remember the alliance of the British and Maori because I personally believe that this day is appropriate for us to cherish, as it’s an important event to our New Zealand history and its indigenous people.