5/6C’s Class Blog 2008

Or should that heading be “Another Visitor Kilometrestone”? Maybe milestones never went metric!

Today, October 2, our visitor counter ticked over to 11,111, or eleven thousand, one hundred and eleven.  That’s a lot of visitors! Our counter began on January 2, so it’s been counting for 9 months or 265 days. That means we get, on average, 42 visitors each day! Wow!

Here are some facts about 11,111:

• it’s a palindrome
• it has at least 4 factors (1, 41, 271, 11111) so it’s composite.
• it ends in 1, so it’s odd
• if you square it, the answer is 123,454,321 (another palindrome)

Can you find any other interesting facts about 11,111?

In the first week of September our school took part in some activities to mark National Literacy and Numeracy week in Australian schools. The festivities began on Monday with a games afternoon outside. We played all kinds of games that honed our English and maths skills – Scrabble and Boggle were favorites of the senior students.

Then we took part in the coin toss activity. We threw 20 cent pieces at a target from distances of 1m, 1.5m and 2m, and tallied the results. It was much harder than we thought it would be to get the coin to stop on the target – many of them hit the bullseye but then rolled away!

The results of the nation-wide activity are now in – you can see them all here. It seems many schools had similar results to ours!

Image: prufrock27 on Flickr under Creative Commons Attribution Licence

It’s only been ten days since the “lucky” date, 08/08/08. Today, we made it to 8888 hits on our blog!  Ooooh, coincidence? Perhaps… or not. Post your thoughts.

 Our poll showed that games are high on our readers’ list of things they want to see on our blog. Ask and you will receive: Click here to play! . This challenge is fun! Use the equipment given to make the ball land in the cup. And no cheating (not mentioning any names, Jarrod!)

More games can be found on our blogroll to the right and on our Learning Links page. Enjoy! Please post a comment to tell us what you think of these games, and to recommend any other child and education-friendly sites.