Please watch the following videos to check your work
Adding Fractions practice:
Video Here
Subtracting Fractions practice:
Video Here
Multiplying Fractions Practice:
Video Here
Simplifying Fractions Practice
Video Here
If there is anything you are quite unsure of, and the video does not clear up things for you, please check your notes and the google classroom.
This month has been insane. Too many days missed, and we haven’t had a full day of school in a MONTH. ugg. I will also be changing the layout of this website before the 3rd quarter begins. I have something in mind that will make it much simpler for the two teams to find their individual information.
Today we talked a great deal about equivalent forms of numbers. We talked about how someone can have $10 in many different ways:
a single 10 dollar bill
10 one dollar bills
100 dimes (tenths)
1000 pennies (hundredths)
We took some notes and talked about this a good deal:
It is very important that students understand that our standard algorithm for subtraction involves finding equivalent forms of a number that make it simple to subtract.
Tomorrow will be our last day this quarter. Students will receive a progress report and we’ll talk about whether they are happy with their grades or not, and what they can do to improve or continue to do to be successful.
have a good one!
-Mr. Potter
Today we began a *lot* of work.
This week students will be given freedom to choose when they do their work. Each day will be divided into three rotations, and they will choose what work they will do each day. They have three major things to be working on:
Project:
Students should be writing their addition word problem and working on their script. These are due by Thursday, but I would love to see students beginning their filming starting Wednesday. More information and requirements can be found in google classroom.
Here is an example video
Packet:
Students today received a packet that covers everything we have covered over the last month. They should be working on this daily and have it finished by Friday.
Centers:
Students have a total of 5 centers to do this week. How and when they choose to do those centers is up to them.
Each day this week students will be working on these items. I will be pulling small groups to go over certain concepts and ensure everyone is getting their work done and in a quality fashion.
All items are due Friday. For more details, check the google classroom.
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter
It’s already Thursday!
EVERYTHING is due tomorrow:
Note book
Examples book
Here is what they should look like at this point:
Video project (see google classroom for info)
I know this: Base 10 Math Packet
I would highly recommend that you come to class with ONLY your video left to finish. You will have the entire class period tomorrow to finish this, but as some of you saw today, taping your video can be a long process.
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter
Today was a LOT more work on our projects, ‘I know this’ packets, and centers.
I let students know that as it is Wednesday, I would expect them to be over half-way done with everything at this point. That means:
less than 2 pages left to do in their packet
Their word problem and script are done
They have completed at least 3 centers
If they are not at this point, they may want to do some work outside of class.
Students should be practicing what they will be doing and saying during their addition video. We will begin filming tomorrow!
Please make sure you look over the requirements on google classroom as well as your notes to prepare.
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter
Today we began a *lot* of work.
This week students will be given quite a bit of freedom to choose when they do their work. Each day will be divided into three rotations, and they will choose what work they will do each day. They have three major things to be working on:
Project:
Students should be writing their addition word problem and working on their script. These are due by Thursday, but I would love to see students beginning their filming starting Wednesday. More information and requirements can be found in google classroom.
Here is an example video
Packet:
Students today received a packet that covers everything we have covered over the last month. They should be working on this daily and have it finished by Friday.
Centers:
Students have a total of 5 centers to do this week. How and when they choose to do them is up to them.
Each day this week students will be working on these items. I will be pulling small groups to go over certain concepts and ensure everyone is getting their work done and in a quality fashion.
All items are due Friday. For more details, check the google classroom.
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter
Today was Abacus day!
First we very briefly went over the mental math strategies we were talking about yesterday. These strategies may seem simple and unneeded, but as we become more adept at them, we will move onto more challenging problems and uses.
Next we all made our own abacus!
We will be using this as we talk about numbers and operations in the upcoming weeks. Students will also need to use their abacus in a video they make about addition and another video about subtraction. What I’m saying here, is DO….NOT…LOSE…IT.
Also treat your abacus with consideration and care. It’s sturdy, but not little brother or sister proof.
Making the abacus took us quite some time, so we didn’t actually have time to discuss their function. We will get into those details and do a ton of exercises tomorrow.
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter
Today we started talking about mental math, and some strategies we can utilize when adding numbers mentally.
I know that addition is combining terms. This means I can break apart those terms as I see fit and combine them in any way that would make it easy on myself.
For example a simple problem like 9 + 7
I can see that my answer is going to be larger than 10. So I try to make a ten easily first. I know that 9 is one away from ten. This means I’m going to break up my 7 into a 1, and a 6.
So my problem goes from
9 + 7
to
9 + 1 + 6
10 + 6
16
This is a good strategy for students to have when adding numbers, and one of many we will be working on.
Tonight students should finish this simple worksheet on this idea. Please make sure you read the directions:
We also did a good round of centers today, some focused on base number systems, and others on our own base 10 system.
We also got together some of the parts that we will be using tomorrow to make an abacus!
We will be adding and subtracting with our abacus, and we’ll have to make a video where we solve a problem using the abacus.
Finally we took some quick notes on addition:
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter
Today we did quite a bit of work with our Abaci.
We learned how to represent multi digit numbers, and how to do simple addition with an abacus.
Essentially the abacus works by representing each place value as a rung. The beads on the bottom row we will think of as ones, the second row as tens, and so on. We may adjust this later for some more complex problems, but for now the simple whole number place values will suffice.
Tonight students have some addition problems that they should do on their abacus. They should then write down the process they used to solve the problems on the abacus. This is all detailed on the worksheet they received:
We did the first page together:
Please remember that tomorrow we have a test. This test covers more base 10 things, such as using powers of ten and expanded forms. There will also be a question or two asking you to convert/figure out a base. Finally there will be 4 questions that ask you to use your abacus to perform arithmetic.
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter
Today we made our abacusses! Abacussesses! um…Abacuss’?Abbaci?
Um….we each made an abacus!
This took a bit longer than I had expected, and as such, we barely had time to talk about their function. We will get into those details tomorrow.
If you missed today, we’ll have to whirlwind one together for you tomorrow.
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter