DMIC Group Problems

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Term 1

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After meeting with your DMIC group, you will need to complete you DMIC session post.

1. Take a photo or create a DLO of the work your group did and post it to your blog.
2. After describing what your photo is from, tell your readers what you learnt during the DMIC session and what you would like to do better next time.

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DMIC GROUP BLOG POST

Week 10-

Team 5 has decided to sell different Pasifika foods at the garage sale. The graph shows what was sold in 2018. The teachers of Team 5 want to analyse this data to improve future sales. Can you help Team 5 by answering the following questions?

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Tasi sold her foods in February in the hot heat during the early afternoon. In March she sold her foods during the evening in cold weather.

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Questions:

1. Pineapple ice cream and chop suey were the most popular foods over February and March. Do you agree or disagree? Explain why.

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• Describe the sales for pineapple ice cream. Explain why you think that many pineapple ice creams were sold during February and March.

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The garage sale in February was in the hot heat during the early afternoon. In March it was during the evening in cold weather.

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3. What was the number of chop suey sold

in March? Explain why you think that many servings of chop suey sold during March.

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4. What do you think the number of sales for each food would be in June? Justify your reasoning.

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Tasi sold her foods in February in the hot heat during the early afternoon. In March she sold her foods during the evening in cold weather.

Week 9-How can you show your data to show the #1 choice?

The teachers of Team 5 are gearing up to plan for Year 8 camp, which means the year 7s need something to do as well.

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What activity should the teachers plan for that the year 8s could do one night at camp and the year 7s could do one day at school?

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Conduct a survey to determine the specifics of the event.

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Week 7-Have we answered the story?

Someone has offered to make sleeping bags for year 8 camp in 2 different sizes: Square and Rectangular. What can we do to help them decide how many of each to make?

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Week 6

Someone has offered to make sleeping bags for year 8 camp in 2 different sizes: Square and Rectangular. What can we do to help them decide how many of each to make?

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Week 3

There are red, black and yellow rubbish bins in various locations around the school. Each day the Team 5 Bincurity students wheel the bins from four locations near Team 5 and Team 1 to the kindy driveway and back.

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It is approximately 68.5 metres from the bin locations to the kindy drive. Unfortunately, because of a sport event, there were only 3 Bincurity students one day last week.

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If the three students each took the same number of bins (one at a time) to the kindy drive and back, how many metres did each student walk altogether?

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Week 2

The teachers of Team 5 have decided to make covers for their iMacs using a special print of material made just for Team 5. If there are 31 iMacs in the Team 5 building and Mrs. Tele’a purchased 52.5metres of material how much material will be left after the iMacs are all covered?

1. a). How much material is needed to cover 1 iMac?
2. b) How much material is needed all together?
3. c) How much material is left after the covers are made?

Week 1

Aaliah, Marie, Silifaga, and Thida have been taking music lessons at Te Oro (in time slots 6, 7, 8, and 9) to learn how to play a new instrument. Use the following clues to decide:

• Who is playing which instrument?
• What time slot is each girl’s lesson?

CLUE #1

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Aaliah is learning about the accordion.

CLUE #2

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The student learning about the xylophone is in a timeslot two hours before than Thida

CLUE #3

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Marie is in time slot 6 or 8

CLUE #4

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The student in slot 7 is learning the oboe.