Week of October 19th

Week of October 19, 2009

• Sunshine Math continues on Monday for those that signed up. The worksheets will be due back on Friday.


• Wednesday is an Early Release Day!!

• Friday is our Symphony of Fun Carnival from 6:00 - 9:00. Thank you to all the parents and family members who have volunteered to work our Big Slide Booth. In addition, the front office is asking for candy donations for the Trick or Treating that evening.
  

We will have our final test on Building on Number You Know on Tuesday, October 20th.

For the BONYK final test, some of the concepts that are implied are an understanding of:

skip counting forward and backward by a given number

identifying properties of a multiple tower:

what number are we counting by

what will be the next multiple of ten

how many numbers are in the tower

how does the 3rd number in the tower relate to the 30th number

be able to divide and multiply

pick a "perfect pair"

and

Know what to do with remainders

If the remainders are kids we cannot make them into a fraction and spilt them up equally. That would be illegal and messy! If the remainders are pizzas, we probably will split the remainders up evenly. Say 8 kids want to share 9 pizzas, each kid would get 1 whole pizza and 1/9 of the last pizza.

Monday: HW sheet #9 goes home. Please use your own judgment about working ahead. I know that many students have after school activities, and working ahead may be a very good plan.

We will continue our work on EDC (Every Day Counts-Calendar Math), and we will begin our next investigation, Name That Portion: Fractions, Percents and Decimals.

Tuesday: We will continue our work on EDC (Every Day Counts-Calendar Math), and we will continue to work on our math investigation, Name That Portion: Fractions, Percents and Decimals. We will take our final test on Building on Numbers You Know on Tuesday.

Wednesday: We will continue our work on EDC (Every Day Counts-Calendar Math), and we continue our investigation, Name That Portion: Fractions, Percents and Decimals. We will review Monday and Tuesday's homework.

Thursday: We will continue our work on EDC (Every Day Counts-Calendar Math), and we continue our math investigation, Name That Portion: Fractions, Percents and Decimals.

Friday: We will continue our work on EDC (Every Day Counts-Calendar Math), and we continue our math investigation, Name That Portion: Fractions, Percents and Decimals. We will review Thursday and Friday's homework.

I noticed something worthy of mention while grading the BONYK (Building On Numbers You Know or Boink!) quiz. Students that are comfortable thinking of multiple towers as decomposed multiplication problems did very well on the test. For example, if a student was asked what number the 13th person would say if they were counting by 23s, students that saw that as (23 X 10) + (23 X 3) were very successful. Those that relied on actually adding 23 thirteen times were not as successful. By 5th grade, students should not be reliant upon adding up, as multiplication is much more efficient.