Extra Short Week

With the class attending a movie on Thursday afternoon and the Good Friday and Easter Monday holidays following that, we will only have 3 math classes this week and hopefully 4 next week.

We did some skip counting practice on Friday from 0 to 1000 by 25.  If you have some extra quarters around or play money get your kids counting by 25.  Once they recognize the pattern .... 0, 25, 50, 75 .... they should be able to get a nice rhythm going.  Once they get the pattern down the expectation is that they should be able to start skip counting by 25 forward or backward from any number in the sequence, ie.,  start at 325 and go forward or backward or start at 575 and go forward or backward.

Along with continued practice with division and multiplication, perimeter will be our focus this week.  Perimeter is the distance around the outside of an object.  The shape could be a regular shape such as a rectangle or triangle or it could be irregular such as the outline of a foot or shoe.

I have added to websites to the Websites tab for students to practice calculating perimeter.  You might need to explain that "ft" is short for "feet" a unit of measure in the Imperial system which we do not teach.  They should know that "cm" stands for centimeter.  We haven't talked about the meter yet, but the abbreviation for that is "m".

Find the Perimeter

Perimeter Climber


Here are some word problems to try this week.... Which one is multiplication and why? Which one is division and why?

There are 4 cards in each box. How many cards will you have if you buy 9 boxes?


You need 36 invitations for a family party.  The invitations come in boxes with 4 cards in each box.  How many boxes will you need to buy?


I hope everyone is enjoying this more spring-like weather we are having :-)

Have a great week!