Measuring Capactiy

Today Stars mad theri drink combos. They had to use 5 or more dinks .

Capacity - Making Drink Combos

This week groups have been designing a new drink combo. They had to end up with 300ml of drink. The Smiley Faces group only had to use 3 drinks each using 100ml of drink and adding up to 300ml. Arrows had to use 4 or more drinks that add up to 300ml. They made some wonderful drinks and even came up with names for their drink. They had to reflect on their combo and come up with good points and things they would change.

Making Chocolate Bubble Cakes

Today the Arrow's maths group made Chocolate Bubble Cakes. We had a Master Chef bake off competition (boys against girls). We even had judges. Paddy and Kerry judged the crackles and the girls won! But we had to also take into account the tidiness of the groups while they were cooking and the boys won that. We decided it had to be a draw! They were certainly very yummy! The teachers enjoyed theirs as well.
Here is the recipe:

Chocolate Bubble Cakes

250 g vegetable shortening
100 g icing sugar
25 grams cocoa
100 grams rice bubbles
100 grams coconut

1. Put vegetable shortening in a saucepan.
2. Cook over a low heat until melted.
3. Sift icing sugar and cocoa together.
4. Add sifted ingredients, rice bubbles and coconut to saucepan, stirring until well combined.
5. Spoon mixture evenly into paper patty cases.
6. Chill until firm.

How many cakes did you make?
What is the mass of each cake?
What is the mass of coconut in each cake?
If I wanted to make 100 patty cakes how much cocoa would I need?

Measurement - Mass

Today the Smiley Faces math's group made Lolly Cake. They looked at the weights on the packets and measured out the correct amounts. It was a yummy lesson!
Here is the recipe:
Make Lolly Cake using this recipe.

Be sure to measure your ingredients carefully!
Lolly Cake
Ingredients:
120 g butter
250 g malt biscuit crumbs
180 g fruit puffs
1/2 tin condensed milk
coconut – for coating
Method:
1. Warm butter and condensed milk together in the microwave.
2. Add biscuit crumbs and fruit puffs.
3. Stir well.
4. Roll into one log or small balls. Coat in coconut.

Can You Fill It?

Try out this game. Click the pots to pour water into the container. Click here to begin.

Volume - Capacity

Tomorrow we will begin to measure how much a container holds or how much you can take out of a container. To measure volume in NZ we use a metric system using these units - kilolitres, litres and millilitres. Learn the units below to help you during our unit.

kilolitre = kl
litre = l
millilitre = ml

1kilolitre = 1000 l
1 litre = 1000 ml

Mass - Weight

Room Ten remember this...

tonne = t

kilogram = kg

gram = g

milligram = mg

1 tonne = 1000 kilograms

1 kilogram= 1000 grams

1gram = 1000 milligrams

Mass & Capacity

On Friday we will have our pretest for mass & capacity. Try out these games before hand so that you are familiar with these math's concepts.


Learn about capacity and mass




Which holds the most?




Can you fill it?





Weigh the poodles