Maths, Reading & Visualisation

In reading we have been working on our comprehension strategies.Last week we focused on visualisation - they way we can create mental images when we read to deepen our understanding of the text.We read a short passage that explained how to measure a very tall object without having to climb it and we visualised how we would do this.

Yesterday we went out and put this knowledge into practice. In the passage it told us to simple grab a pencil and measuring tape. First put the pencil in line with the base top to bottom of the what you want to measure and then you turn the pencil vertically,then you tell your buddy to move to end the pencil. After you have finished estimating where to stand you need to grab measure tape and measure the length of how far your buddy is and then try and get the measure tape to the top of the thing you measuring. Test the end results and compare how far you got see if you can beat us!

                        Using method          Actual Rope Swing           3.30m                3.27m

Soccer goal post     2.40m                2.40m