Science - Missile Launchers

We researched Sir Isaac Newton and his amazing work as a mathematician and physicist. Newton's first law is about FORCES and this links to getting rockets off the ground.

We learnt that rockets launch when the force of the thrust pushing up is greater than the weight force due to gravity.

Smarties Statistics

As an introduction to our Statistics Unit we had the following scenario....

The Smarties factory colour sorting Machine has broken down and until it is fixed we have to sort by hand. We need to research how many smarties in a packet, what colours and how many of each colour. What a bonus that at the end we got to eat our Smarties. 

The key learning was...

Creating a Tally charts to collect data

Creating a Bar Graphs to display data

Finding Mean, median and mode

Drawing conclusions