Maths learning story

Maths learning story.

This was the best maths ever. It's more fun than the rest of the other maths I was in.

The problem was about a competition between Philomena and June to see who could jump the farthest. There are three events to compete in, they are Hop, skip and jump. Philomena thought that she would win because she is the fastest. She could have the best run up. June thought she would win because she has longer legs than her.

Philomena's points in the three events were hop 1.01, Skip .97, Jump 1.57.

Junes points in the three events were hop   .89, Skip 1.11, Jump  1.5.

The problem was asking us who was right and who jumped the farthest.

So first me and my group added up all of Philomena's points from the events because we want to know the total all together. So we added    

We did the same thing with Junes but different points.          

 P         1   1                                     J   1   1                                    

             1.01m                                      0.89m

         +  0.97m                                 +   1.11m

             1.57m                                      1.5m

             3.55                                         3.50

Next we saw that Philomena won twice and June won once and lost the rest. So it looks like that Philomena won with 3.55 and june lost with 3.50.It was really close but it sounded like they had fun.