This term has gone by really fast! I haven't posted since production. That went really well by the way. It wasn't that nerve-racking because with all the lights in your faces you couldn't see the audience.
I have done a lot of maths since then. We've just finished area, perimeter and volume.
To find the volume of a cylinder/cylindrical shape you first find the area of the shape on the side, so if it was a circle that would be the radius squared times pi, then you multiply that by the length. I've done lots of other problems too, like how to find the cost of this if there's all of this stuff to buy etc, but mostly it's just finding area, which is base times height, or if it's a right-angled triangle it's base times height divided by two, triangle is base times half the height, circle is pi times radius squared, and the trapezium is the average of the top and bottom times height. The volume of any 3D shape I've come across these past few weeks is area of end times length. I don't know how to find the area of a sphere though, and what about 4D shapes? Like tesseracts and the like. I wonder how to find the volume of those. Come to think of it, I've never heard of them having a volume before.
Speeches are next term. I think I have a good speech topic and I can write a good speech, mostly. I don't like saying it in front of people though.
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