Today's maths lesson!

Today in our maths lesson (The first lesson of the day) we had to do an investigation called 'Four Slide'. It involves addition and organising your numbers in systematic order. We had to organise our work as a tree diagram so it could be easier to read. As you can see to the right, there is a picture of how the tree diagram was started. It was an investigation so we had to make an observation and a prediction and afterwards check if your prediction was correct.

We had to create a tree diagram to show our findings of the investigation. On the left, there is a photo of my tree diagram of showing all the possibilities to move the counter, through four slides. There was a sheet with a 3x3 grid on it filled with the numbers 1-9 and we had to find all the possibilities to make a sequences with the counter starting on the number 5. For instance 5, 2, 1, 4, 7 is a sequence and these were the rules:

1) You can only move your counter up, down, left or right not diagonally.

2) You couldn't move to the number you were on before but you could come back to it later. For example, the sequence 5, 6, 5, 2, 1 would be breaking rule No.2 but the sequence 5, 6, 9, 8, 5 would be appropriate because you are allowed to use the same number but just not together

I felt that today's maths lesson was a bit easy but I am looking forward to tomorrow's lesson as it will be a challenge because Part 2 of the investigation is 'Five Slide'. There will be a lot more possible outcomes to find and theories to test.