Maths and a Wilson game.

Take four hoops, four bean bags and what do you get?... A complicated Wilson game! It's called 'Bullseye'. The aim of the game is to get the four beanbags into the four hoops. The rules:

• No toes over the front of the line when your throwing
• If your beanbag touches the hoop after landing, it's a no throw!

Each hoop was worth a certain amount of points.  The first hoop was worth 2 points, the second hoop was worth 4 points, the third hoop was worth 6 points and the fourth hoop was worth 8 points.  Our team came third - we need to work on our strategy for the next time.  I think we should use the flat beanbags that do not bounce for the first and second hoop, and then use the beanbags that bounce for the third and fourth hoop.

After morning tea, I did a maths taster session with Katie. It was fun because Katie said that at the end we could all have a chocolate. So then we worked extra hard. We looked at probability today.  Probability is predicting if something will happen.  We worked out a lot of percentages.  We did an activity with rolling 1 dice, 2 dice, and then using a spinner with colours.  My favourite part was when we did the dice rolling because we got to use tally marks and I love to use tally marks.  The last part, Katie had a box of Cadbury Favourites.  We had to work out the chances of pulling out each flavour.  Then we chose chocolates at random to see if our predictions were correct.  We pulled out picnics the most!