Today we were doing maths with Bina and we had to figure out a maths question. The question was Ripeka and Jan were sitting around playing with toothpicks when Ripeka started to make a pattern of squares. How many toothpicks would she need to make a pattern like this that had 9 squares? To be honest I did loads of mistakes. The first pattern had 4 toothpicks.
I got stuck on on the second pattern so Bina put us in partners. Savahn said 4+4 equals 8 so the answer is 8. We went back by our self. I was really confused because I only saw 7 sticks and thought it had to be a Even number.
We got more confused and then we got into 3 partners and made the 1st pattern, Then the second pattern, Then the third pattern, left the 3rd pattern and made the 9th pattern. We had write how we worked it out. I did 9 x 3 which equals 28.
The first answer we got was 36 so we did that answer. We have learnt a lot for this problem.
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