Tonight is Math Night!

Please come out for some fun baseball related math games, maybe grab a burger or a hot-dog, and meet Muddy the Mudkip.

Two years ago the school where I worked actually had Muddy come out and read a story to the school.  He’s pretty hilarious.

 

Today we started talking about division.  We talked about relating what we have done in the classroom to the standard algorithm, and some other strategies for dividing numbers.  Tonight there are two division problems the students should do.  They can use either a picture model, they can work from an area model, or they can try the standard algorithm.  Whatever they choose is fine, however they should check their answer with a multiplication problem, utilizing an area model.

91.8 ÷ 6

36.2 ÷ 4

 

I was very happy with the students’ responses to last night’s question about SQ in the Mysterious Benedict Society.  many of them came up with ideas that I had never thought of myself.

Tonight they should read pages 149-150 in their motivation reading books, and then answer the questions on page 153-154.  The answers should as always be accompanied by reasoning.  We debated our answers to our last reading selection in small groups, and many of our students were able to sway others to their answer based on their reasoning.  This is a really great skill to develop, and we will continue to require reasoning for our answers throughout the year.

Unfortunately today we did not have time for science as we had to quickly get to the computer lab to take our end of quarter STAR test.  This test measures the lexille levels of the students, and let’s me know if they have been making progress in their general comprehension and vocabulary areas.

 

So, tl;dr

a lite night tonight, as I’m hoping some can come out to Math Night!

two division problems:

91.8 ÷ 6

36.2 ÷ 4

Read pages 149-150 in Motivation Reading , and answer the questions (with reasoning!) on pages 153-154

 

Have a good one!

 

-Mr. Potter