Another day, another dollar!
The students have been working quite a bit this week with play money, as they explore ways to divide numbers and decimals. We are using the play money and the idea of dollars and cents to explain the basic algorithm for dividing numbers used in long division. Today we did all the way to dividing dollar amounts involving pennies, and the students have two problems to do using this method. As it stands we have developed this algorithm for dividing our cash:
1. Hand out ___ tens to each person.
2. We have ____ tens leftover.
3. Turn our ___ leftover tens into ____ ones.
4. We now have ____ ones.
5. Hand out ____ ones to each person. 6. We have ____ ones left over. 7. Turn our ____ leftover ones into ____ dimes. 8. We now have ____ dimes. 9. Hand out ____ dimes to each person. 10. We have ___ dimes left over. 11. Turn our ___ leftover dimes into pennies. 12. We now have ___ pennies. 13. Hand out ___ pennies to each person.
This essentially simplifies to “hand out our biggest denomination as much as we can. Do we have any leftover? Turn it into a smaller denomination and hand those out….repeat”. This is what is occurring in something like….
You may not have realized this, but what is going on there is first you look at your 5 hundreds, decide that you can’t hand out a hundred to each of your 12, so you broke down your hundreds into tens. Now you have 51 tens. You can hand those out, 4 to each person in fact. Now you’ve handed out 48 tens, and you have 3 remaining. You break those down into ones. Now you have 36 ones. You hand those out, 3 to each person, and now you’ve divided up all of your number.
The students have two problems to do USING OUR ALGORITHM – NOT using the long division process. This is really about getting them to figure out what is going on under the hood so to speak, with long division.
The problems they should do are:
1. $75.60 divided among 3 people
2. $35.10 divided among 5 people
In Language arts we finished up a journal entry talking about our worst experience from our break. Then as groups we combined these bad break stories into one big bad break story and shared them with the class. They were actually very entertaining, and I recommend you ask your student what their group’s story was about, and what story was their favorite from the class. Prepare for ridiculousness!
Also we have been working on stamina reading in Language Arts, and we have gotten up to reading for a full 25 minutes straight without any of our kids losing focus. We will keep going until we can stay focused for a full 30 minutes every single time with no problems at all.
In Language Arts, the students need to finish writing their stories that contain the 10 vocabulary words for the week. this IS DUE TOMORROW ON SATURDAY. If for whatever reason they are not here tomorrow, then it is due on Monday.
REMINDER REMINDER: THERE IS SCHOOL TOMORROW, SATURDAY, THE 26th OF APRIL.
Buses will run as normal.
The school day will run until 12 noon
There will be no lunch or breakfast served, but students are more than welcome to bring a snack!
ok the tldr;
2 math problems using our method:
1. $75.60 divided among 3 people
2. $35.10 divided among 5 people
Finish vocabulary story
THERE IS SCHOOL TOMORROW! COME! ENJOY! LEARN!
Have a nice night!
-Mr. Potter