Hello all,<\/p>\n
I’m very sorry that I missed updating on Monday. \u00a0I’ve been a tad under the weather lately, and I ended up sleeping instead of doing many other things. \u00a0apologies!<\/p>\n
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This morning we talked a LOT about some of the properties of division that can help us when performing difficult division problems. \u00a0In particular, we talked about how we can solve division problems where our divisor is a decimal.<\/p>\n
Essentially, when we are dividing there are some neat properties that we can use to help us make difficult problems much simpler.<\/p>\n
For example, all of these problems will give me the same answer:
\n6 \u00f7 2 =
\n(6 x 3) \u00f7 (2 x 3) =
\n(6 x 10) \u00f7 (2 x 10) =
\n(6 x 7) \u00f7 (2 x 7) =
\nEach problem will give me an answer of three.
\nThis means we can take some division problems that might look difficult, and make them easier by multiplying our dividend and our divisor by some number.<\/p>\n
The students tonight have a set of problems to do utilizing these properties. \u00a0A bit more of an explanation and an example or on the worksheet as well.<\/p>\n
Nov11MathHomework<\/a><\/p>\n In Language Arts we spent some time talking about our reasoning for our answers to last night’s homework, and the students got to debate their answers against each other to come up with an answer key. \u00a0It’s amazing how fervidly students will talk about their evidence when their grades are on the line!<\/p>\n Tonight, students have a very short passage to read and 4 simple questions to answer WITH REASONING! \u00a0These are on page 228 of their motivation reading books.<\/p>\n They also have a word ladder that they should have received on Monday while I was out. \u00a0This should be completed and turned in by tomorrow as well.<\/p>\n Nov11WordLadder<\/a><\/p>\n In science we went outside and took a final look at our poor, poor, dead or dying plants. \u00a0They did their best for us, and provided us with some delicious vegetables. \u00a0They will be missed.<\/p>\n We talked about taking all of our data and graphing the growth of our plants. \u00a0Students each picked a plant to graph, and they listed all of their data points, as well as their range for the y axis. \u00a0We will graph all of these tomorrow hopefully, and then see if we can find more data on the weather for the time period, and try to find correlations between growth and other things.<\/p>\n Finally, we watched some animations about the landing on Comet 67P this afternoon. \u00a0It is really neat stuff. \u00a0Maybe tomorrow we can find some good video or pictures of the actual landing itself.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ok, so tl;dr<\/p>\n One worksheet dividing by decimals<\/p>\n Nov11MathHomework<\/a><\/p>\n One page in Motivation reading – P 228<\/p>\n On word ladder<\/p>\n Nov11WordLadder<\/a><\/p>\n And as always, reading log!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Have a good one,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n -Mr. Potter<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello all, I’m very sorry that I missed updating on Monday. \u00a0I’ve been a tad under the weather lately, and I ended up sleeping instead of doing many other things. \u00a0apologies! This morning we talked a LOT about some of the properties of division that can help us when performing difficult division problems. \u00a0In … Continue reading Homework Nov 12 (Wed)<\/span>