November 6

Fays Nines Reflection

Our recent project in project maths has been Fays Nines. Our task was to find all the possible answers leading up to 180. We were aloud to use the digits between 1-9 to create an answer that adds up to 999.

When we started with this problem I thought it would be very similar to magic squares but it turned out to be different In many ways and I got a bit confused because I didn’t know where to start.

I noticed that if you got 19 in the units Colum, 18 in the tens and 8 in the hundreds Colum you would get an answer but you had to carry the 1 in order for this to work.

I broke this problem into manageable parts by finding lots of combinations for each part then putting them together to make a correct answer.

I found a way to get the most possible answers by having 3 original numbers then shuffling them around to make a lot of unique solutions and find the goal of 180 answers.

The most challenging part of the question was probably getting started and not knowing where to start anther challenging thing was learning how to carry numbers but when I had help from friends it became a lot easier to understand and that’s when the light bulb clicked

This was my first 2 lessons and my findings.

October 21


For my passion project this term I’m making a collage of photos and memories from the past I’m going to be creating a collage of pictures and writing of our journey as a family I would like to use my phone to film the process I’m looking forward to giving it to my family and sharing the memories.


September 19


Did you achieve what you originally set out to do? Yes I did and a bit more.

What successes or challenges did you experience toward the end of your project? One of challenges I faced was finding quite a bit of time to take high quality pics and in my opinion quality is better than quantity.

How did you overcome the challenges? I started to knuckle down and get it done even if I was busy

How can you extend your learning if you were to continue with this project? I think that I could travel to a wider verity of locations.

September 6


The country I have been studying has been the USA and here is what I have learnt…

Some of the differences are how they say hello and the greetings and how they speak and there accents are pretty different especially in the southern states. The other thing that’s different are there sports like baseball, NFL and Ice hockey are sports that not many countries play.

some of the similarities are the food like burgers and pizzas are a treat same as Australia and many other Western country’s. We build our houses similar and our clothing and business attire are very similar and general clothing are starting to look and be nearly the same especially as teenage kids.

I think I would find the schooling really interesting because of the high level sport programs and I like the style and fashion and how big the sports stores are there like 6 stories high and being amongst the culture and being with everyone and learning about what they do in every day life.

August 27


So far I have taken a good collection of photos and edited them to make them look as good as they can

I have learnt how to edit photos and use image placement better

I think one of my successes is knowing how to take photos of the sunrise/set and along the beach but my goal for the remainder of the project is to try and move out of my comfort zone

The next step for me is to make all my images into a film

July 29


What do you intend to create? I intend to create a short film consisting of all my favourite photos pictures that I will take.

What technologies will you use? I’m planning to use my Phone a DSLR camera. I’m exited to learn about the DSLR

Who is your project targeted at? My project is aimed at people who enjoy at looking at a variety of different photos.

What are you looking forward to? I’m looking forward to go travelling around to different places and learning how to take the best photos I can.


June 17


Did you achieve what you originally set out to do?

Yes, I think that I achieved everything and above that I thought I could achieve, the thing that I found was that ruling of the dimensions was a bit tricky and we had to use all sorts and tried to experiment with the different sizes of the shapes.


Well towards the end of the project we were never home and we had a hard time finishing it but in the end we did it and I’m super happy how it turned out.

 How did you overcome the challenges? 

I started to try and commit more time for the project and that meant me having to get my priorities in order and instead of watching TV and doing it later I started doing the project earlier and TV later.


I think that if I had more time I think I could put a logo in the middle and that would make it look a lot cooler.

June 8

Win at The Fair

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Lesson 4



May 28

Digital Etiquette

Netiquette- Netiquette means having good behaviour on the internet and correct use of online sources.

Flaming/Flame wars- When people have an argument over something on the internet.

Trolls- People who deliberately try and cause trouble and havoc on the internet.

Anonymous- Someone who cant be identified [ example: pretending to be someone else]

Communicating clearly- using Emojis, Caps lock and Grammar.

Permission- Make sure that you have the permission from their parents or the person the photo is of.

Once the message is on the internet you cant take it back.


May 23


Today we learned about Digital Citizenship and what it means to be a digital citizen. We learnt how to think, T H I N K is the acronym we focused on so what does each letter mean?

T- Is it true is what your posting true and will it hurt the person its aimed at?

H- Is it helpful and will help someone if they need some help and is it hurtful?

I- Is it inspiring and will someone if their down look for inspiration and look up to be like them.

N- Is it necessary think, is this a meaningless post, photo or comment necessary?

K- Is it kind will someone feel good about it or will they feel hurt and upset?

So THINK before you post.