During our first lesson today we worked with our TALKING PARTNERS and used our COMMUNICATION SKILLS while taking part in a quiz about Paris. We were asked some true or false questions about our findings so far, discussed the answers and then moved to areas in the hall. These areas were represented by traffic light colours of RED for false, YELLOW for don't know and GREEN for true. We then used NUMBER SKILLS to convert our correct answers into percentages.
To do this we divided the number of pupils with correct answers by the number of pupils taking part in the task and then multiplied by 100 (We multiplied by 100 because percent means per 100).

For example, 23 out of our class of 30 pupils knew that the Eiffel Tower is the tallest building in Paris. To find the percentage, we divided 23 by 30 and then multiplied the result by 100. This gave us 76%.

Here are some of our other results in percentages:

86% of us knew that you can't get to the top of the Eiffel Tower by lift. You have to walk the final 15 steps.

46% of us knew that Euro Disney is only 32K from Paris.

66% knew that Euro Disney was the second Disney resort to be built outside of the U.S. The first was Disney Tokyo.

Only 23% of us knew that the Arc de Triomphe is on the Champs Elysees.

76% knew that Sacre Coeur means Sacred Heart.

Later we were set the challenge to create a balanced argument about the building of Euro Disneyland Resort Paris.
We each wrote one pro and one con about the building of this resort on post it notes. We then stuck our arguments on a large piece of paper.

Five different statements were chosen, and in our groups we had to argue against them.

We then had to decide which argument had swayed us. We converted our results into percentages using a calculator race!

This time we had to divide by 24 as some of our boys had gone to rugby!


17 of us thought that Euro Disney was perfect for a family holiday, while 7 disagreed.
This worked out as 70% for and 30% against.

Many French people did not like the idea of such a symbol of America in France. Only 8% of us agreed with this, 29% were undecided while 63% disagreed.

33% of us were concerned about the amount of traffic and pollution that Euro Disney would produce, 13% had no opinion, while 54% thought that the good points of Euro Disney, for example new job opportunities, outweighed the bad.