In Class 7 we are almost finished with fractions. It’s been a tough road with many finding fractions quite difficult as I think most did at school. With help from Eliza and Cate I feel we have it pretty much covered now and will move onto new things.

Students have enjoyed digital technologies where they have learned how to make a simple calculator from basic logic gates. This illustrates how computers are very simple machines that build complexity by layering and repeating circuits. Last week I introduced how the internet packet switching network works, which caused a flurry of questions and couriosity which was great to see. We played a modified and chaotic UNO game that illustrates how messages cross a network with fault tolerance so that our data arrives without errors.

John