Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Maths: convex and concave shapes

We learned about convex and concave shapes today. If a shape is concave, it is possible to draw a straight line that starts inside the shape, goes outside it, and goes back in again. That cannot be done with a convex shape. At home please draw 5 convex shapes and 5 concave shapes on the spotty paper I gave you. Enjoy doing your homework.


We also looked at our word problems. Almost all of us had listened carefully in class and shown our working, instead of just writing the answers. Well done if you showed all your working. The last question caught some of us out. If you read it carefully you will see that four eggs are eaten each week, not two. First we have to do 2 x 2 to get 4, and then 4 x 4 to get 16.

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