The Party Problem

During maths this week, we worked in groups of four and tried solving a party plan problem. Our goals were to figure out what we could buy under the budget of $50. We also needed to worked out how many people we were serving and how much we would get of the items we were buying. There were e.g cups, different sized pizzas and party hats.

We also needed to find a way to be creative and have our own thinking.

My group was Vrishti, Prisha and Taanvi. I think we worked together pretty well. We were able to agree on things and we were able to work together to solve it.

At the end, we presented our work and was also able to look at other groups thinking and see what they did as well.

I learned how to be creative and do things my way and how to subtract and add money/decimals and also be able to plan and look at the cost for my party. My group also learned how to work together or be Collaborative.

I want to continue working collaboratively and also keep on learning how to add, subtract, divide and times decimals.

The connections that my group made is that, decimals are similar to ratios. Like we used one thing to eight people - 1:8.

What we all learned about decimals:

Decimals could be converted into fractions and percentages

1/10 or 10% or 0.1 is all similar to each other

Decimals could be equivalent to fractions and percentages
Decimals could be added, subtracted, times and divided and could be changed into another decimal

So that was my groups party planning. I would rate my groups collaboration a 4 out of 5 because. We did spit apart from time to time but still did lean in and have equal air time/talking time.