Happy Monday!<\/p>\n
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We did a LOT of review this morning. \u00a0We went over our quizzes from the last two weeks, and took a look at some issues we are having. \u00a0Please make sure you ask your student how they have been doing on their quizzes. \u00a0I will be sending progress reports home next week.<\/p>\n
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After all of our review, we took some math notes and started talking about how we can take difficult multiplication problems, and break them down into easier to do problems. \u00a0Maybe something like 9 x 8 is a little difficult for us to do in our head if we haven’t memorized our multiplication facts. \u00a0So we do our best to break it down into simpler sub-problems:<\/p>\n
9 x 8 = (5+4) x (4+4)<\/p>\n
We then talked about how to distribute multiplication across addition, and area models that help us to visualize this.<\/p>\n
9 x 8 = (5+4) x (4+4)<\/p>\n
= (4×4) + (4×5) + (4×4) + (4×5)<\/p>\n
= 16 + 20 + 16 + 20<\/p>\n
= 20 + 20 + 10 + 10 + 6 + 6 \u00a0 (we can use different forms of our numbers to make addition simpler here as well)<\/p>\n
= 72<\/p>\n
We took some notes on this of course, and tonight students have 4 problems to do just as they were done in the notes. \u00a0The problems are at the bottom of the notes:<\/p>\n
Aug22AreaModelsNotes<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Language Arts we started talking about character traits. \u00a0We made the distinction that character trait does not mean feelings. \u00a0Almost everyone can be happy, sad, or angry. \u00a0Unless that is how a character acts exclusively, we normally don’t use those as character traits. \u00a0Students came up with a large list of character traits on their own, and I was very impressed with the level of vocabulary I heard.<\/p>\n Here are the notes with some of our words we came up with. \u00a0These notes aren’t finished yet, but some students asked that I put them up here to help them with tonight’s assignment:<\/p>\n Aug22CharacterTraits<\/a><\/p>\n Tonight students should pick a character trait. \u00a0They will write a story about our character\u00a0Tina or Timmy\u00a0that exhibits that character trait in an extreme manner. \u00a0Tina\/Timmy should be going to buy a video game. \u00a0They shouldn’t come right out and say that Tina\/Timmy is <insert character trait>, but they should try to make it obvious from their actions in the story. \u00a0I have included the prompt and my example that I shared with the students. \u00a0This should be like a little riddle where the reader should be trying to think of the character trait. \u00a0Can you guess mine?<\/p>\n Aug22TimmyTinaStory<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And before we knew it, we were out of time \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So, tl;dr<\/p>\n 4 multiplication problems done JUST as our examples (on graph paper)<\/p>\n Aug22AreaModelsNotes<\/a><\/p>\n Write me a story about ______ Tina\/Timmy buying a video game<\/p>\n Aug22TimmyTinaStory<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And read!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Have a good one,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n -Mr. Potter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy Monday! We did a LOT of review this morning. \u00a0We went over our quizzes from the last two weeks, and took a look at some issues we are having. \u00a0Please make sure you ask your student how they have been doing on their quizzes. \u00a0I will be sending progress reports home next week. … Continue reading Homework Aug 22nd (Mon)<\/span>