How do we help ourselves learn in Room 19?
We write a learning intention (WALT - We Are Learning To) and we write the Success Criteria (SC). This helps to focus our learning, and helps us to check our work for all the things we need to achieve to be successful.
A WALT could be... WALT write introductions to our speech.
The SC would be:
- hook the reader in with an interesting beginning (pick one of the following: ask a thought-provoking, rhetorical question, state an amazing fact or statistic they probably have never heard, give a fascinating, scary, funny, frightening piece of information, say something that most people would disagree with to shock them, tell an interesting little story of something that happened once to you or someone, do or say something that surprises the audience and makes them wonder what you are on about)
- let the audience know what the speech is about
- let the audience know why the theme relates to the speech-giver
QUESTIONS
Today in maths I was pondering what an 11 sided shape was called because we had only learnt up to 10 sided shapes. My question was “what is an 11 sided shape called?” I thought of possible answers myself. I then went to the teacher and asked her. She said what a great question, where could you find the answer? We went on to Google and typed “what is an 11 sided shape called?” I looked at another website too to double check the answer and it said the same thing. I found out that a shape with 11 sides is called a hendecagon. I noticed that from 10 sided shapes to 19 sided shapes have the word decagon in them, and a 1 sided shape is a henagon. I put them together and figured hen is in front of decagon to make hendecagon, which means 11 sides!!!!! I also found out that the language the numbers are in is Greek. I shared my information with the rest of my maths class. I helped myself learn by finding out information I didn’t know. Here they are so you can learn too!
Polygon names
henagon (or monogon) 1
digon 2
triangle (or trigon) 3
quadrilateral (or tetragon) 4
pentagon 5
hexagon 6
heptagon 7
octagon 8
nonagon 9
decagon 10
hendecagon 11
dodecagon 12
tridecagon or triskaidecagon 13
tetradecagon or tetrakaidecagon 14
pentadecagon (or quindecagon) or pentakaidecagon 15
hexadecagon or hexakaidecagon 16
heptadecagon or heptakaidecagon 17
octadecagon or octakaidecagon 18
enneadecagon or enneakaidecagon or nonadecagon 19
icosagon 20
icosihenagon 21
triacontagon 30
tetracontagon 40
pentacontagon 50
hexacontagon 60
heptacontagon 70
octacontagon 80
enneacontagon 90
hectagon (also hectogon) 100
chiliagon 1000
myriagon 10,000
decemyriagon 100,000
henagon (or monogon) 1
digon 2
triangle (or trigon) 3
quadrilateral (or tetragon) 4
pentagon 5
hexagon 6
heptagon 7
octagon 8
nonagon 9
decagon 10
hendecagon 11
dodecagon 12
tridecagon or triskaidecagon 13
tetradecagon or tetrakaidecagon 14
pentadecagon (or quindecagon) or pentakaidecagon 15
hexadecagon or hexakaidecagon 16
heptadecagon or heptakaidecagon 17
octadecagon or octakaidecagon 18
enneadecagon or enneakaidecagon or nonadecagon 19
icosagon 20
icosihenagon 21
triacontagon 30
tetracontagon 40
pentacontagon 50
hexacontagon 60
heptacontagon 70
octacontagon 80
enneacontagon 90
hectagon (also hectogon) 100
chiliagon 1000
myriagon 10,000
decemyriagon 100,000
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