Our trip to Willowbank

How many children would fit in our classroom?

This is the problem Room 15 had to solve in Maths this week. Here is Catherine to explain how we did it...We had to find the area of the classroom to see how many kids can fit in so we made some square meters out of newspaper.Then we laid them down one side of the classroom and found that it was eleven meters that way and then did the same down the other which made seven.We know that seven times eleven is seventy seven.So that we could finish the problem we found how many children   could fit on one square meter.After squishing thirteen kids on we worked out that thirteen times seventy seven was one thousand and one!Thats a lot of kids that can fit in our classroom.