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Snakes & Ladders – Kick Start

I have created my own digital Snakes & Ladders game using subtraction. You need to subtract before you stay in a place on the board. But wait! To play my edition of Snakes & Ladders, you need to solve the problem in under 3 seconds(to make it more difficult, double digits are to be subtracted!). I can share you in if you want to play this edition!

Did you know? Snakes & Ladders was supposed to be a moral education for children. The squares that had ladders, represented virtues. The squares that had snakes, represented evil. Completing this game represented a successful life’s journey.

What do you like / dislike about Snakes & Ladders, and why?

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Underwater Robot – Step-It-Up!

I have created an underwater robot for scientists and marine biologists to use. It will expand our knowledge further about the deep, dark depths of our Earth’s blue; the ocean.

What else would you add to my Underwater Robot, and what abilities would your robot have?

Did you know? The Earth’s surface is covered in 71% of water?

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Under the Sea – Kick Start

I have created an underwater picture. There are 6 jelly fish in the photo, can you find the 6th one? Please comment down below if you know where it is!

Fun facts:

Did you know, dolphins have an outer layer of skin, and they shed it about every two hours!

Did you know, a red snapper can weigh up to 50 pounds(about 22kg) which is about 2 car tyres!

 

Rebus Puzzle – Step-It-Up

I have created a rebus puzzle with a hidden message in it – can you find out what it says?

Finding different words to make the hidden words were a bit difficult for me to do, because some pictures might be hard to guess like the Z’s for some audience; but let me give you a hint: the Z’s are NOT related to sleeping!

Message hint: It is a type of popular food in NZ. It has many names, but we call it the adjective it makes when it cooks!

Please comment below if you think you have solved it, or even if you have no idea!!

Rebus Puzzles – Kick Start

I created a story using emojis. Can you understand this puzzle?

If you can’t, I have a emoji glossary so you can read it!

The summer ☀️ is killing me! It is scorching 🔥 📥side and 📤. Does🧍1️⃣ feel the same 🛣️? Literally! 🪰s are buzzing around everywhere, it’s 🚗ing me 🤪! When 👁️ swat them away, they seem to always come 🔙, like a 🪃. It’s like they’re asking for a swatting. And my 🍭, they 🫠 into a warm, gooey-but 😋-mess. Sometimes when it’s so 🔥, 👁️ miss the ❄️. But that rarely happens. Even though 👁️ feel like an 🧊 way past its melting ☝️, the ☀️ just is too 🔥 to be 😮‍💨 with it. It 🔆ns the 🛣️, and ♨️s us up from the 📥 out. What more can we 🙏 for? We have to be thankful for this ✨   🦸hero⭐.

Next time we can’t 👊 the ♨️, 🤷 not just 🦘 in front of the 🪭 and consider that it could be “God’s 🌲t”?

Tangrams – Step-It-Up

I solved 4 advanced Tangram puzzles!

To describe the pictures using math vocab:

The football picture(top left) used reflection symmetry for the football, because the red and blue isosceles triangles have exactly the same angles, and together makes a square. The arms and legs of the picture are made up of shapes that have acute angles.

The wolf picture(top right) is using shapes with their vertices pointing to the top left, which is what the wolf is doing. The head(red, green, blue shapes) and the torso(pink triangle) look like the tail of the wolf(rhombus), but on a bigger scale(proportional/corresponding area). The shapes of the wolf look slanted to the left, like a rhombus(tail of wolf).

The Sydney Opera House(bottom left) uses most of the 3-sided polygons with their vertices pointing upward, like a castle or mountain.

The scorpion picture(bottom right) uses reflection symmetry with two isosceles triangles(blue and pink) to make another larger sized isosceles. The red triangle in-between the smaller blue triangle and the rhombus looks similar to the larger sized isosceles polygon(proportional/corresponding area. They also both have vertices pointing upwards.

How would you describe these images?

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Tangram – Kick Start

I have created 4 Tangram pictures using 7 different geometric shapes.

Did you know that the Tangram was originated in China? 

The 1st picture I made was a cake(top left), it was not very difficult to solve.

The 2nd picture I made was a swan(top right). It was slightly challenging, but it made me think deeper. The 3rd picture is a star(bottom left). This intrigued me that it was not a ‘perfect’ one, so I decided to solve it. The 4th picture is of Washington(bottom right). I chose it because I’m thinking that most people would assume it would be the easiest to solve, so I tried to solve it. I was completely wrong, it was actually the second easiest one in my opinion! The star was the most difficult for me.

My favorite picture to make was the star, because it is one of my favorite shapes.

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Which One Doesn’t Belong? – Step-It-Up

I challenge you to figure out..

Which One Doesn’t Belong!

Remember, all answers are correct. If you need some help, I can give you a little hint!

If you have figured an answer out, write it down below as a comment so I can see how good of a mathematician you are.

Which One Doesn’t Belong? – Kick Start

I challenge you to figure out which of these pictures doesn’t belong.

Remember, every answer is correct!

Please respond with your answer as a comment so I can see how creative you are.

R.E.S.P.E.C.T

Step-It-Up

I have created a logo to promote respect. I chose this because many people do this, especially in businesses to show respect. It was really fun to make this in Google Draw. I tried to make it as sleek, simple and modern as possible. I hope you like my logo.

How would you promote respect, and what would your logo look like?

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