Writing
Click on the link below to watch a video about parliament.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N8ygvnIgVA&feature=emb_rel_pause
At the moment, parliament, like the rest of us, is being affected by corona virus. Important decisions still need to be made though and the government and ‘opposition’ (the Members of Parliament or MPs) often argue about the best course of action to take. MPs are elected at General Elections and anyone over eighteen can vote.
Your task today is to plan a discussion text (you’ll be writing it tomorrow) entitled, ‘Should children over the age of ten be allowed to vote?’
Tuesday’s task contained a link to a page from the Week Junior devoted to a debate about the rights and wrongs of whaling. Use that article to help you plan your discussion. Do you remember writing a balanced argument/discussion text in class? We used to chant, ‘Intro, info, yes, no, me’ to help us remember how to organise our text. Your introduction will contain information about the subject you are writing about (votes for children) then you will discuss arguments in favour of children being allowed to vote (yes) followed by arguments against them voting (no) and then you will conclude by summarising the debate and giving your opinion (me).
Plan your text carefully and include three arguments for and three arguments against. You’ll need to give this some serious thought. What information will you include in your introduction? You could include statistics about how many people are currently allowed to vote and why some children are now demanding they be allowed to vote too – you may need to use your imagination to think of reasons.
Remember, today’s task is to research and plan your text. Tomorrow you will be putting everything together and writing the final draft.
Arithmetic
Time yourself answering these mental arithmetic questions. Time limit is five minutes.
Less than one minute= out of this world, Less than 1 minute 30 seconds = genius, less than 2 minutes = excellent, less than 2 minutes 30 seconds = very good, less than 3 minutes = good, less than 3 minutes 30 seconds = pretty good, less than 4 minutes = goodish, less than 4 minutes 30 seconds = sort of good, less than 5 minutes = sort of goodish! Over 5 minutes = Better luck next time and well done for trying your best.
Maths No Problem
Answers to yesterday’s tasks:
Today’s task:
Chapter 14 Lesson 10
Look at the In Focus task on page 249. Read what it says about the experiment. Can you predict what the line graph will look like? Will it be a straight line? Before looking at the Let’s Learn section, draw the graph. What do you notice about the points if you connect them?
Look at the graph in Let’s Learn. Why does Hannah think she may have made a mistake with the third reading?
How can she predict the extension for other weights? What do you think the reading would be for 200 g? Can you use two different methods to calculate this?
To work out the reading for 200g you could add another 2.5 on to 22.6 because the spring extended 2.5cm when 100g was added or you could simply add 5cm on to 20.1 (the reading before any weights were added). 200g is double 100g therefore the extension for 200g will be double the extension for 100g.
Complete the Guided Practice section on page 251.
Hints and tips:
Use a ruler to help you to read the graph accurately.
It looks as though the line graph is not long enough to answer all the questions but you can work out the answers to 3 & 4 by doubling and halving other ‘amounts’.
Complete workbook pages 171/172. Use the hints and tips above to help you. You will need to double/halve some ‘amounts’ to work out some of the answers.