12/10/10 What's Going On in BD Class?

This morning got off to a really interesting start. Nadia told us about what was special about the 10th of October. The short date would look like 10/10/10. That got us thinking about the next time a date would look like that. Leo worked out that it would be the 11th of November 2011 (11/11/11). Then we all worked out that the next one would be the 12th of December 2012 (12/12/12). But that is it until the 1st of January 2101 (01/01/01).

Then...that got us talking about palindromes. They are numbers and words that are the same forwards and backwards like:

121

2442

Hannah

civic

deed

Check out this sentence!

A man, a plan, a canal, Panama

If you read the highlighted bits backwards you will find that it is the same. What a big palindrome!

Then that got us talking about ambigrams which are words that look the same upside down. Mr D showed us a signature that was the same upside down and right-side up. It belonged to a man called William H Hill. Check this out!

Here are some ambigrams from a book/movie that is very popular:

Now that's not all we did today. We did some very good reading today with all the groups making some really good improvements with their reading. We also got through some very good maths sessions and wrapped things up with some small ball skills with PE. So it has been an interesting day today. See you tomorrow.