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Explorer's Challenge Adventure
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Explorer's Challenge Adventure
Try each activity. Show your working for maths problems. For writing tasks, use the prompts and check that your ideas are clear.
Pacific Voyagers and Descriptive Writing
Explore navigation, imagery and inventive thinking.
1.Imagine you are voyaging across the Pacific many centuries ago. Write 5–6 sentences describing a challenge at sea. Include a simile, a metaphor and personification.
2.Write a simile, a metaphor, an example of personification and an example of onomatopoeia about a storm at sea. Label each one.
3.In the drawing box, sketch a simple route for a waka travelling from a Pacific island to Aotearoa. Label the waka, destination, stars, wind and ocean current. Then write one sentence explaining how stars could help navigators.
4.Invent a short maths or word riddle for a classmate. Write the answer beneath it, and cover or fold the answer so it is hidden from the solver.
5.Choose a place you could reach without flying. Write 3–4 sentences explaining where you would go and how you would travel there.
Maths and Problem Solving
Use time, patterns, angles and multiplication to solve each challenge.
6.A waka leaves at 1:36 pm. The trip takes 4 hours 29 minutes. What time does it arrive? Choose whether the arrival time is am or pm, and show your working.
7.Complete the number pattern and state its rule: 9, 18, 27, __, __, __.
8.Complete the number pattern and state its rule: 105, 95, 85, __, __, __.
9.Complete the number pattern and state its rule: 3, 9, 27, __, __.
10.Complete the number pattern and state its rule: 180, 160, 140, __, __.
11.Name the angle type shown. Is it acute, right, obtuse or straight?
12.Name the angle type shown. Is it acute, right, obtuse or straight?
13.Name the angle type shown. Is it acute, right, obtuse or straight?
14.Name the angle type shown. Is it acute, right, obtuse or straight?
15.Draw one reflex angle of your own and write its size in degrees.
16.Calculate 23 × 16. Show your working.
17.Calculate 408 × 6. Show your working.
18.Calculate 37 × 18. Show your working.
19.Calculate 125 × 14. Show your working.
20.Choose one multiplication from this page and explain a mental strategy you could use to solve it.
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