Making my paper chain

WALT: 1. Write a recount.

2. Integrate maths and writing

Making my paper chain

On Tuesday morning in class, I was told to make a chain and to try and make it long. We did this to help us to have an understanding of estimation. We had to buddy up with someone so I was with yazmin. We were making chains to estimate how long we could make it.

First, we got given two sheets of A5 paper. They were christmas colours. Red and Green. Then yazmin and I estimated how long we thought our chain would be and we thought that it would be one meter. Then we decided on what pattern we would do and how we would cut it. We choose to go red, green,red,green and we choose to cut the paper lengthwise then cut it in half to have heaps of strips.

Next, we cut the paper into small strips and we made sure that each strip was six mm. After that, we glued the end of the strips together to create a chain.

Thereafter, I  measured how long our chain was and surprisingly, our chain was three meters and 4 cm. So it was longer than we expected it to be.

Finally, In my book I recorded how long our chain was and I made comparisons with my chain and Samuel and Munokoa’s chain and their’s was longer as it was three hundred and twenty cm.

In conclusion, I compared mine to other students chains and to do that, I put my chain next to some other students one to see if mine was longer but my chain was only longer than eight students chains and only two students and their buddies chain was longer than mine. If I had to do this exercise without cutting the paper with scissors, I could of ripped the paper or use the ruler to cut the paper. From this exercise I learnt about sizes and estimation.