Monday 31 December 2018
Activity 3: The Midnight Zone summer learning journey
i think that there should only be adults and i worked it out by dividing 500 by 25 which equals 20. There needs to be 20 adults to carry the big heavy squid. For the children it is 34 four because 500 kilograms divided by 15 comes to 33.3 (1dp). You can't have a third of a child and expect it to be alive.
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Hi Kauri,
ReplyDeleteI think your point about not expecting 1/3 of a child to be alive is very valid. I can't begin to imagine how massive a 500kg squid would be. If each person can eat half a kg of squid how many people would you need to eat it all up before it went rotten because we can't fit that monster in the fridge! LOL :)
Hi Kauri!
ReplyDeleteThis is some great Maths you have done here!
I like that you have rounded up your number, this also made me giggle: "You can't have a third of a child and expect it to be alive."
I am wondering what technique you used to work out 500 divded by 25? Did you use the place value method? Maybe an algorithm?
I've seen the colossal squid in Te Papa and it is pretty huge - I would not be surprised if it took this many people to move it! Have you seen it before? ...it's pretty cool!
Do you think you would have liked to be on the team moving the squid?... might have been a messy job!
I was just told about a strong man alled Eddie Hall - He won the World's Strongest Man 2017 and he can lift 500kg's all by himself... maybe Te Papa should have hired him to move the squid!!
Nga mihi,
Ellee :)