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Hello everybody! One quick joke to get started -
 * Friday 4/2/11**

Why aren't geometry teachers good at tennis? They keep trying to fold the net into a cube!

Now to the classwork - We will start with Number Systems, as per the course outline, but we will do a few other things first.

Please complete the and  by downloading the links, then emailing them back to me atburton.erin.k@edumail.vic.gov.au

Any communication from you is welcome - just say hello, or ask questions, or share jokes :-) Email or a phone call at school (54521062) are both fine.

If you would like to have some other maths to do, try watching Letters and Numbers on SBS at 6pm weekdays, or google 'maths puzzles'.

**Tuesday 8/2/11** Work for the week: We will be going over the major skills in the Number Pretest - Rounding Decimals, Substitution, Fractions and BODMAS. If you found any of these difficult, now is the time to work on them. You could look at the first chapter of the textbook, and/or google will provide lots of information, games and worksheets on ANY topic.

Firstly we will look at the Real Number System (Exercise 1A - Questions 1,2,3,5,6abij,7abeij). Homework #2 is on Write a definition of factors, multiples and primes in your own words, then fill in the gaps for the BLUE highlighted numbers with the factors of that number. Primes have been listed already, but what about one?! See if you can find out why 1 is not a prime number.

Lastly, Square Numbers. Find out what they are and why they are called square numbers, and explain this in your own words Then, complete Ex 1F - 1aeimq, 3af, 4bj, 5ac, 6ach, 8abchj. For question 8, look for patterns and shortcuts.

**Monday 28/2/11** Last week students completed the Number Systems test, did some work on NAPLAN practice tests, and started the next topic of Pythagoras' Theorem.

This week we will be continuing this topic with some worksheets and activities:   

...and then using the textbook (chapter 4) to explore Pythagoras' Theorem in composite shapes and 3 dimensions.