Sorry, folks. I forgot to post last night.
As I look at the calendar with a lot of short weeks this month and into May -- with holidays, PD days, and various scheduled events -- I expect that we will only have 34 math classes until the assessment days in June. That has been a bit of a shock to me! Eight weeks sounded better, but then I remembered the holidays, etc.
In the stations I set up last week, and that we are using again this week, students are reviewing and practicing place value concepts, division, multiplication, and skip counting by 5. One station is actually a little project called "Run a Candy Store" that incorporates place value, including writing numbers in expanded form (176 = 100 + 70 + 6), comparing and ordering numbers, and subtraction. These are all outcomes that we have worked on. Another project focuses on multiplication and if we have time, we'll do that one as well.
As far as home support goes, please continue practicing multiplication facts and the concept of division. How do you use division at your house? Cutting a pizza? Cutting a pie? Dividing up a certain number of playing cards? Dividing up chores (THINK: How many chores need to be done? How many people are going to help? How many chores will each person do?). Look for real-life opportunities to involve your child in solving problems that involve multiplication and division.
Here's a division problem to discuss with your child. See if s/he can model it (draw it out) to show what s/he needs to do to solve it:
Lexie spent 2 hours gathering all of her watercolor paintings. She thought of placing an equal number of paintings in four of the rooms in the house. If Lexie has 32 watercolor paintings, how many paintings will be placed in each of the four rooms?
(BEWARE OF EXTRA INFORMATION THAT CAN THROW STUDENTS OFF, ie., 2 hours gathering her paintings. It is not important to the problem and students need to recognize that) (from www.k5flearning.com)
Perimeter is another topic I introduced very briefly when we had a few moments at the end of class one day. We will be spending more time on this in the coming days.
And don't forget about addition and subtraction with regrouping (carrying/borrowing, as we used to say)!!!!
So much to review. So much to practice. Thank you for any help you can give us.
Have a great week!
As I look at the calendar with a lot of short weeks this month and into May -- with holidays, PD days, and various scheduled events -- I expect that we will only have 34 math classes until the assessment days in June. That has been a bit of a shock to me! Eight weeks sounded better, but then I remembered the holidays, etc.
In the stations I set up last week, and that we are using again this week, students are reviewing and practicing place value concepts, division, multiplication, and skip counting by 5. One station is actually a little project called "Run a Candy Store" that incorporates place value, including writing numbers in expanded form (176 = 100 + 70 + 6), comparing and ordering numbers, and subtraction. These are all outcomes that we have worked on. Another project focuses on multiplication and if we have time, we'll do that one as well.
As far as home support goes, please continue practicing multiplication facts and the concept of division. How do you use division at your house? Cutting a pizza? Cutting a pie? Dividing up a certain number of playing cards? Dividing up chores (THINK: How many chores need to be done? How many people are going to help? How many chores will each person do?). Look for real-life opportunities to involve your child in solving problems that involve multiplication and division.
Here's a division problem to discuss with your child. See if s/he can model it (draw it out) to show what s/he needs to do to solve it:
Lexie spent 2 hours gathering all of her watercolor paintings. She thought of placing an equal number of paintings in four of the rooms in the house. If Lexie has 32 watercolor paintings, how many paintings will be placed in each of the four rooms?
(BEWARE OF EXTRA INFORMATION THAT CAN THROW STUDENTS OFF, ie., 2 hours gathering her paintings. It is not important to the problem and students need to recognize that) (from www.k5flearning.com)
Perimeter is another topic I introduced very briefly when we had a few moments at the end of class one day. We will be spending more time on this in the coming days.
And don't forget about addition and subtraction with regrouping (carrying/borrowing, as we used to say)!!!!
So much to review. So much to practice. Thank you for any help you can give us.
Have a great week!
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