Tomorrow is Early release – school dismisses at 12:30.
This morning we talked a good deal more about base 10, and about different ways to represent a number. Many students had some issues with this problem from the last few days homework:
750 = (__ x 10)
This question is asking how many 10s it would take to make 750. Many students mistakenly answered 5, as they were simply looking at the tens place in the number 750. However there is an equal sign in there. That means that the entirety of the left side of the equation must be equal to the entirety of the right side. That will only happen if we are making the entire number 750 out of tens.
We can also think about it this way:
750 -> we can think of this as 750 ONES
If we look at the tens place, we can also look at it, and think….
750
75 TENS
so, the missing value in our equation turns out to be:
750 = 75 x 10
I would highly recommend looking at these problems from the last few days. Tomorrow’s quiz looks VERY much like this…
Tonight in math students should finish their word problems from yesterday. Again I want to see each problem worked out in steps.
In Language Arts we started up some reader’s response journals today. Students will be responding to prompts in here, and also writing about what they choose to read on their own. Today we did read an article about Easter Island and the Moai, and students got some questions and a prompt. This is *not* homework, but they may work ahead on it if they like.
I’ll post more about these reader’s response journals later, but they will become a weekly assignment as students are asked to respond to what they have read. The entire point is to get students thinking about what they have read so they can become better readers AND better writers.
In science we continue to talk about ecosystems. Tonight students have some short readings on ecosystems and some questions to answer:
so, tl;dr
Answer the rest of your word problems using our five steps
Finish your science readings and answer some questions:
wow, that’s not much at all, is it? Great.
And read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter