DEEP Math Weekly October, 18th
Here's what's happening in DEEP math classes this week!
Have a safe and fun Fall Break! I look forward to seeing many of you at conferences next week!
Elections of the Past
This weeks graph compares presidential salaries. The sixth grade made a good observation when they spotted the asterisk by the title. It informs us the salaries are "Not adjusted for inflation." Hmmm...I wonder if that makes this a good representation of the data?
Engineer-ing Design Process
4th and 5th graders began to discuss and use the engineering design process in makerspace this week. I have seen a lot of creating and improving as we begin to test our games!
P.O.T.W.
2nd to 4th grade will get a hint this week because we are yet to have a correct entry for our POTW. In 5th to 7th grade we had one correct entry from Justin Rauscher! Justin provided a wonderful explanation of why 3x(2x+3y) does not equal 6x+9xy. Keep up the great work!
7th Grade
After wrapping up our chapter on percents, we are moving into a different area of math. We will segue into geometry by using proportions to calculate measures of scale drawings. This segue means we will take a jump from Topic 3 to Topic 8 in our books. Have no fear, though! We will go back to Topics 4, 5, 6, and 7 later this semester.
6th Grade
After a very exciting scavenger hunt, which allowed us to practice a little integer addition, we are moving into a study of geometry. This means we will be skipping ahead in our books to Topic 7. For Topic 7, students will get to learn using flipped lessons. This means students will be watching videos and taking notes as homework and then practicing the skill in class. So homework and notes are flipped! The lessons will be posted in Google Classroom starting next Tuesday.
5th Grade
It's fraction time! We will begin our study of fractions with addition and subtraction. This week we will focus on common denominators and adding and subtracting unlike fractions. We will, like, totally, make unlike fractions into like fractions with a visit from Miss Wannemuehler's "valley girl" twin! Like, wow!
4th Grade
We are continuing our study of multiplying two digit numbers. This week will challenge us to show our multiplication with arrays, partial products and the distributive property. We have seen them all before when we multiplied one digit numbers by multi-digit numbers. Now we will see how they work with two digit by two digit multiplication. Our explanations of how we solve are getting so good, we might need to write our own math book!
3rd Grade
Students will continue to work on their Division Menu with a goal of achieving 100 points. The menu will be due at the end of class on Thursday, October 20th. Students may work on these menus at home. We will be starting our last topic that focuses only on multiplication and division. Topic 5 is introducing us to multiplication charts and how to use them. We will also be continuing our multiplication fluency tests this week, so study those facts!
2nd Grade
We will be continuing to sharpen our skills of adding large numbers and adding more than two large numbers. We will also learn what a conjecture is as we construct an argument in support of our conjecture. We are growing our math vocabulary every week!
1st Grade
Last week we built our logic skills by solving a few Perplexors. We even tried a few on our own, and everyone worked very hard to use the clues to find out who matched what and when! This week, due to Fall Break, parent teacher conferences, and a math test, it will be a short week for our enrichment time. We will meet Tuesday and Wednesday to play with Osmo and work some word problems.
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