Happy Monday!
Today we were a bit….off. Had some issues with staying on task and making sure we cut our side conversations off when appropriate. Tomorrow is a new day, and hopefully it will be MUCH better!
This morning we took a look at all of the different things we have worked on this quarter. We then went over our quizzes from Friday, and our quizzes from this quarter. Students gave themselves interim grades (that Mr. Potter checked to make sure they were what he would have given them!). For the *most* part, students were honest with themselves. They saw their grades and they saw the work they had done, and were capable of saying “I understand this” or “I don’t understand this yet”. This is a very important skill that students will need throughout their lives as they assess their own understanding and plan their own learning.
Tonight students should get this interim signed. Also please use it to record their reading log, as we ran out of time to hand out the new ones at the end of the day. Sorry about that.
Last week students purchased an ice cream and movie party for our class using the tickets they had saved up. So, today we had ice cream cones and watched “Stick Man”. Tomorrow we’ll take another little break and watch “Room on the Broom” and have ice cream sandwiches! I was really impressed last week with how they had pooled all of their tickets to purchase something for the class as a whole.
We then went over what different mathematical operations really mean. One problem we are running into when we are examining word problems is we aren’t quite sure about multiplication and division yet. So today we talked about some things that operations can represent:
Addition ( X + Y ): is about combining things. Finding a total, a sum. If I put X and Y together, how much are they in total?
Subtraction ( X- Y): is about finding the difference between two numbers. How much bigger (or smaller) is X than Y? It can also answer if I took Y away from X, what would I have left?
Multiplication ( X * Y): is about repeated equal groups. Repeated addition. X groups of some number Y (or Y groups of some number X)
division (X ÷ Y): is about splitting some value into equal groups. It can also be repeated subtraction. Or how many Y are in X?
Tonight students have 4 equations to look at. They should then write a word problem that would be solved by the given equation. Make sure you look at what each equation represents, and that you go through your steps when solving them!
- 5 + 1/3
- 5 – 1/3
- 5 x 1/3
- 5 ÷ 1/3
so, tl;dr
A very easy night I believe….
Get your interim signed (and use it as a reading log as well!)
Write a word problem that would be solved by each of these, and then solve them using our steps:
- 5 + 1/3
- 5 – 1/3
- 5 x 1/3
- 5 ÷ 1/3
If you’ve forgotten them, the steps are:
- What is the problem asking?
- What do I know?
- DRAW A REPRESENTATION to figure out how to solve
- Solve, using what I know
And read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter