Maths today saw us exploring our Solar system. We have a model hanging in the ceiling of Gateway Base and the Year 8's have told us it's wrong and there were many errors with the scale.
We watched this video to try and give us a sense of the scale of the planets in the Solar System, it's so hard to even imagine the size of some of the stars.
We then had the task to make and produce a scale model of the solar system. We had to look at data tables and calculate how to transform our very large numbers into manageable values.
We calculated that we would need a VERY large space so we headed down to the dining hall to layout our models.
It was a surprise to see the vast distances between the planets in our scale models but was great fun researching and investigating our maths challenge.
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