This week is going to be quite busy!
Thursday: Field trip to the Durham Bulls
Friday: Field day!
We spent a large chunk of our morning working on mathematics today. We started talking about how we can take multiplication problems, and turn them into division problems by dividing by the multiplicative inverse. Which also means we can take any division problem and turn it into a multiplication problem by multiplying by the inverse.
We’ll continue talking about this a great deal for the remainder of the quarter.
This morning we also did a LOT of work with area and perimeter. We got out some tiles and made many different rectangles. We did some puzzle problems, where we had to figure out rectangles when given area and perimeter but no dimensions. I was pretty impressed that students were capable of figuring these out on their own.
Tonight students have some corrections and some review in their math coach. They should fix any mistakes they made on page 50, which we corrected today in class. They should then do pages 52-53. I would like to see area models AND the standard algorithm for these.
In Language Arts we are still working on being able to defend our answers with evidence from the text. Tonight students should answer some questions about our Asteroid reading passage. As always, i expect to see good reasoning!
“Because this one makes the most sense” is not good reasoning! WHY does it make sense?
so, tl;dr
Math coach pages 50 (fix) then do 52-53 with area models and the standard algorithm
Answer questions about the asteroid passage (with reasoning!)
And read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter