Tomorrow is a half day! Please be aware that school ends at 12:30 tomorrow.
SOOOO MUCH MATH!!!
This week has been a lot of fun. Being able to really focus on something like our math has allowed us to get a lot done!
I apologize for no update yesterday. Unfortunately my hosting provider had some problems and a number of sites were down for a good part of the day.
Today we did our last burst of math review bootcamp.
We talked about mental strategies for adding and subtracting simple numbers:
8 + 7 = 8 + (2+5) = 10 + 5 = 15
12 – 5 = 12 – (2+3) = 10 – 3 = 7
We talked about multiplying powers of ten
10 * 1/100 = 10/100 = 1/10 = .1
We talked about breaking numbers down into parts in order to multiply them
40 x 0.03 = 4 x 10 x 3 x 1/100 = 4 x 3 x 10 x 1/100 = 12 x 10 x 1/10 = 120 x 1/10 = 120/10 = 12.0
We talked about how there are many different ways to name a number, and how these can help us:
300 can be…..
300 ones
30 tens
3 hundreds
3000 tenths
and so on!
We then talked about how we put all of this together to do something like multiplying decimals. Tonight part of their math packet involves this.
Tonight students have another packet of ….MATH! to do. YAY!
They should finish this entire packet EXCEPT for the last page. I made it very clear that they should not touch this last page.
no real need for one, but here is the tl;dr anyway:
read!
12:00 dismissal tomorrow!
Math packet (don’t do last page!)
Also it is not allowed to snow tomorrow or Monday or Tuesday. I have decided this.
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter