Mathematics
How do you find the mean of a set of numbers?
List the steps you will take.
Find the sum of all the numbers.
Divide the sum by the number of addends.
Mean = sum of numbers over a number of addends
What is a phoneme?
A phoneme is a unit of sound heard from a letter or group of letters.
What is the Capital of Jamaica?
Kingston
What are the functions of the sense organs?
Seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and touching.
Find the median of the following numbers.
Example: 10, 12, 8, 6, 4
Median = 8
What is a grapheme?
A grapheme is the written letter or symbols used to represent a phoneme.
How many parishes does Jamaica have?
14 Parishes
When you touch any hot or cold object, the skin send information to the ___________ and it tells you that what you are touching is either hot or cold.
Brain
What is the definition of mode?
Find the mode in the following numbers:
10, 12, 8, 19, 6, 4
Mode is the number that occurs most frequently in a set of data.
Mode is 10
'Th' in the word teeth is a phoneme or grapheme?
Grapheme
How many counties does Jamaica have?
List them
Jamaica has 3 counties.
They are Cornwall, Middlesex and Surrey.
Part of the body used to respond to our surroundings.
What is a Pictographs?
Pictographs use pictures to compare data.
How many sounds do you hear in the word segment?
What are those two sounds?
2
Seg - ment
How many inland towns does Jamaica have?
List those parish capitals
They are four inland towns.
The parish capitals for inland towns are:
May Pen
Mandeville
Black River
Spanish Town
Is the position of the eyes in animals important?
State the reason for your answer.
Yes because the position of their eyes tells exactly how much they see.
What is a Graph?
Graphs are used to represent data or information collected. Graphs help us to understand some kinds of information more easily.
A sentence is a set of words that is complete in itself, typically containing a subject and predicate, conveying a statement, question, exclamation, or command, and consisting of a main clause and sometimes one or more subordinate clauses.
List all the parishes of Jamaica and their capitals.
Hanover - Lucea
Montego Bay - St. James
St. Thomas - Morant Bay
St Elizebeth - Black River
Westmoreland - Savana la Mar
Trelawny - Falmouth
Portland - Port Antonio
St. Mary - Port Maria
Kingston - Kingston
St. Andrew - Half way tree
Clarendon - May Pen
Mandeville - Manchester
St. Ann - St. Ann's Bay
St. Catherine - Spanish Town
List three animals that see well in the dark/ night?
Owl
Bats
Patoo