School on a Tuesday?! \u00a0NO WAY<\/p>\n
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So we are having some trouble with simple mistakes. \u00a0We know exactly what to do, we are more than capable of doing it, but when it comes time to do many of our math problems, we are making silly mistakes because we want to take short cuts or just get ‘done’. \u00a0To combat this, tonight students have a STRICTLY regimented math assignment.<\/p>\n
Students were given a list of questions\/steps to walk through with each problem. \u00a0We did two examples as well:<\/p>\n
SubtractionExampleMar3<\/a><\/p>\n For the following six problems, they should use one side of a piece of paper, divided\u00a0into sixths, and done exactly as the examples. \u00a0They don’t need to write each sentence, but they should be thinking them as they do each step.<\/p>\n SubtractStepByStepMar3<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Language Arts we talked some more about similes and metaphors, and I let the students ‘grade’ each others similes and metaphors. \u00a0Wow do we have some tough cookies in here. \u00a0It was a very interesting experiment, and some students realized how difficult it can be to grade something without a rubric or clear cut guidelines. \u00a0We also came to the agreement that some similes and metaphors are better than others.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tonight students have another set of simile and metaphor practice to do:<\/p>\n SimileMetaphorPractice<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Science we had some more time in the computer lab researching our chosen weather phenomenon. \u00a0We talked a good deal about google, what a search engine is, and what constitutes a good search. \u00a0We figured out that typing in a huge long question is unlikely to give us a good answer, and that with research we have to actually find information on our topic, read it, and synthesize it ourselves. \u00a0Google is not the all-knowing source of knowledge, it just shows us webpages that have to do with what we searched for.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n so, tl;dr<\/p>\n fraction subtraction problems:\u00a0SubtractStepByStepMar3<\/a><\/p>\n done like this:\u00a0SubtractionExampleMar3<\/a><\/p>\n metaphors and similes:\u00a0SimileMetaphorPractice<\/a><\/p>\n as always, read for 35 minutes and get your reading log signed!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Have a good one,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n -Mr. Potter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" School on a Tuesday?! \u00a0NO WAY So we are having some trouble with simple mistakes. \u00a0We know exactly what to do, we are more than capable of doing it, but when it comes time to do many of our math problems, we are making silly mistakes because we want to take short cuts or … Continue reading Homework Mar 3 (Tues)<\/span>