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GRADE 5 PROJECT<br />
BASED LEARNING<br />
GRADE 6<br />
MATHEMATICS<br />
IN AND OUT THE CLASROOM<br />
The Grade 5 boys experienced an<br />
exciting a different way of learning<br />
at the end of June, namely,<br />
Project Based Learning (PBL).<br />
This type of learning, students are<br />
constantly active: a project engages<br />
their minds and at the same time<br />
helps them to develop critical 21st<br />
century skills. Students learn how<br />
to take responsibility and build<br />
confidence, solve problems, work<br />
collaboratively, communicate ideas,<br />
and be creative innovators. With<br />
PBL, doing the project itself is the<br />
learning, not the end product only.<br />
The boys were tasked with creating<br />
a new and different menu for<br />
lunch time at The Ridge, taking<br />
into account nutritional needs of<br />
boys, healthy eating, budget and<br />
want versus need. The Grade 5<br />
boys took to the task in true Ridge<br />
fashion: enthusiastically, motivated<br />
and innovatively.<br />
Anton Pretorius<br />
iSCHOOL PRESS<br />
TEAM<br />
The Ridge won the first iSchool<br />
Press Team campaign for <strong>2016</strong> with<br />
a short iMovie news report on the<br />
Salvazione Care to Learn day held<br />
in the first term. According to the<br />
judges the team did a great job with<br />
regards to the choice of music, clear<br />
sound throughout the video, variety<br />
of images and wonderful interview<br />
shots. The team comprised of Tom<br />
Granig, Alex Robins, Luke Badenhorst<br />
and Tyler Doran. Follow this<br />
link to access the video itself.<br />
With the Euro <strong>2016</strong> underway and<br />
The Ridge soccer season about to<br />
kick off the Grade 6M Maths class<br />
decided to see if they could construct<br />
a soccer ball using various<br />
polygons. They started the task by<br />
building a variety of prisms and<br />
pyramids and then extended their<br />
constructions to the Platonic solids.<br />
This proved to be a slightly more<br />
challenging task especially with the<br />
more complex 3D shapes such as<br />
the dodecahedron and the icosehedron.<br />
Eventually a brave group<br />
of students progressed to building<br />
a soccer ball otherwise known as<br />
a “truncated icosehedron”. Along<br />
with building this shape with 32<br />
polygons and 90 elastic bands they<br />
also were able to deduce that Euler’s<br />
formula still held to be true.<br />
They tested this proof using lots of<br />
post-its and quite a few adjustments<br />
to their calculations. Hopefully<br />
the next time they kick a soccer<br />
they will see from a mathematical<br />
perspective why it is known as the<br />
beautiful game.<br />
Daniel McLachlan<br />
The Ridge School <strong>Horizons</strong> <strong>Term</strong> 2 <strong>2016</strong> 8
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