{"id":816,"date":"2015-11-10T15:25:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T15:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=816"},"modified":"2015-11-10T15:32:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T15:32:29","slug":"auchenree-maths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"Auchenree Maths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966\">Primary 5-7 took their Outdoor maths to a new level today when they headed up to Low Auchenree farm, by kind permission of the Ross family, to do some real life maths.\u00a0 While at the farm they; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966\">*\u00a0estimated and measure distances in metric units &#8211; including the circumference of the base of the wind turbines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966\">*\u00a0used trigonometry and angles to calculate the height of a wind turbine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966\">* measured the r.p.m, of the wind turbine blades, using a stopwatch timer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966\">* Used formulae and pi to calculate the speed of a wind turbine blade<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966\">* estimated quantity and visualised 3d models to count bales<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966\">* calculated costs and VAT using multiplication and percentages<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966\">* used formulae to calculate areas and perimeter of a poly tunnel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966\">It was a whole lot of maths in one morning at the farm!\u00a0 Many thanks to Miss Whorlow and Mr Ross for organising this very worthwhile exercise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primary 5-7 took their Outdoor maths to a new level today when they headed up to Low Auchenree farm, by kind permission of the Ross family, to do some real life maths.\u00a0 While at the farm they; *\u00a0estimated and measure distances in metric units &#8211; including the circumference of the base of the wind turbines. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=816\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Auchenree Maths&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":640,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}