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Miss Krems’ little Maths presents

Maths and creative handicraft work are not the best partners … at least the opinion of those who think Maths is a book with seven seals. Miss Krems prooves the opposite.
The Towers of Hanoi are a mathematical puzzle and patience game. The game is made up of several different-sized punched slices put up on three rods A, B and C. At the beginning all slices are on rod A, sorted according to their size, with the biggest slice on the bottom and the smallest one on top. The object of the game is to move the slices in this order from rod A to C. With every move the upmost slice may be put onto on of the other rods, but only if there is not already a smaller slice. Consequently all slices are at all times og the game organized according to their size.
A Pentomino Calender is made up of 7 figures. 6 of these 7 figures are supposed to be put on a field of 31 squares (numbers of a monthly calender), that exactly one square will be left over. (either todays date or the date of a birthday)
Literature gos Maths – Jules Verne describes a codification in his novel Mathias Sandorf by the means of a stencil. You put the stencil on a rectangle that fits to the size of the stencil and the codificated text will be noted letter-wise. For the decodification the stencil must be used again.

Your friends and family will be amazed ! You ask someone to think of any number between 1 and 100. Then you will put one card of numbers after the other on the table and each time you ask, if the imagined number is shown on it. Eventhough you will only get a “yes” or a “no” for an answer, you will be able to guess the number. Do you want to know more about it? Then sign up for the Maths Club.

Schoolyard coffee in the schoolyardcafé for schoolyard fun !

The rolling schoolyardcafé openend today. Parents could shorten their waiting time with a cup of coffee and a piece of cake while picking up their children in the afternoon.
Our 5th graders put up a nice cake buffet in the foyer with great support of all Secondary classes. In return for a donation all KIBS visitors were served a goody.
Leonie from class 9R had provided her rolling “juicebar” which was quickly transformed into a coffee bar.
The coffee was served for a good cause: the money will be used for buying sport and fun equipment. 246,- € were raised, generously rounded up to 300,- € by one of the parents. Many thanks to all donors.
Time has moved quickly, we have already bought balls, hitting games, equipment for tabletennis, jumping ropes…The girls were quite price-conscious, the rest of the money will be saved for something bigger.
During break time all purchases were immediatly tested. From now on the Secondarys breaks will no longer be only about soccer but will still remain very moving.

100 days of school

That means 10 digits, 30 letters, 7 notes, 3 basic colors, numerous new friends and at least 1.000 ideas, thoughts and impulses.
Our first graders have achieved their leadoff aim ! 100 days of school has made them become real school experts. Of course this had to be celebrated properly: with “100-days-crowns”, with 100 things brought to school by every child and most of all with a wonderful “100-days-class-picnic” filled with 100 goodies or even more.
Today we also had fun in the hallway…a fourth grader was considering wether it is possible to complete 100 times 100 days…phew, certainly feels like it…