This week for day 1, activity 2 of week 2 for SLJ, we used our maths to solve a question. For this activity we calculated how old in years, months and days Dr Jessa Rogers was when she won the NAIDOC Youth of the Year award. Dr Jessa Rogers is a leader in the indigenous education and a aboriginal Australian. My answer for this question was 25 years, 3 months and 2 days since Jessa got her award. Below is my working out of this question.
Dr Jessa Rogers won the NAIDOC Youth of the Year award. She was born on the 7th of April 1985 and got her award on the 9th of July 2010. Calculate Jessa's age in years, months and days.
Working Out: Since Jessa was born in 1985 and received her award in 2010, we first work out how many we have to add to 1985 to get to 2010, so 1985 + 5 = 1990. After we add 1990 + 10 = 2000. Finally 2000+ 10 = 2010, which means Jessa was 25 years when she got her award.
Now we have to solve the months. Since she was born on April and got her award on July we work how many we get from April to July. So May, June and July, which is 3. This means Jessa was 3 months when she got her award.
Finally we figure out the days. So Jessa was born on the 7th and received her award on the 9th. So we add up until we get from 7 to 9. 7 + 2 = 9, which means Jessa got her award when she was 2 days.
The final answer is 25 years, 3 months and 2 day when she got her award.
Hi Sakina, here's my workings out on the problem...
ReplyDelete1985 > 2010 = 25yrs
7th April > end of April = 23 days
May = 31 days
June = 30 days
> 9th July = 9 days
= 23+31+30+9= 93 days
April = 30 days, May = 31 days, June = 30 days (92 days)
2 days left over
= 25 yrs, 3 months and 2 days.
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Hello Sakina! Well done on solving this problem. This activity was really fun and challenging to work out how old she was. It seems like everyone got the same answers, so we must be right or very close. Did you find this activity difficult? and if so what was the hardest part for you, I'd like to know. Keep it up!
ReplyDeleteHi, sakina this is a great way of working out this problem. I liked this activity because I thought it was a fun way to work this problem out.
ReplyDeleteHi Sakina,
ReplyDeleteYour maths solving on this is great. I also got that answer and it seems like most people did too. Did you find this activity hard to complete? If so, what did you find hard about it? Keep up the good work.