October 7th

5th Grade:

Unit 1 is finished and we have moved onto unit 2 already!
Students took their unit 1 test last week and will be getting their graded test back on Tuesday. Unit 2 is titled Whole Number Place Value and Operations.
We will explore:
Place Value
Exponential Notation (which many students said at the beginning of the year that they were very excited about)
Traditional Multiplication
Mental Division Strategies
Partial-Quotients
Interpreting Remainders when Dividing

6th Grade:

The sixth graders have done a fabulous job with analyzing, creating, and discussing data over the past couple of weeks. We have changed gears a little and are now discussing fractions. On Thursday students reviewed how to find fractions between fractions, and we had a lot of fun doing it (or at least I did!)

Next week we will continue to talk about rational numbers and how to plot rational numbers on a quadrant grid. That will conclude this unit. Students will then have a unit 1 assessment and we will move on to unit 2!

Happy Monday! 9/19/2016

We have started the year on a roll in math! The first couple of weeks we discussed the importance of many math mindset concepts. Here are a few!

-Fast math isn't the best math. What is important is to think about math deeply.

-Mistakes make our brains grow!

-It's important to believe in yourself!

-No one is born a "math person" or not born a "math person"... Anyone can be a math person! 

In 5th grade: 

We have started to dig deep into the concept of Volume! Students have explored measuring different volumes and making predictions about which shapes have larger volumes and why. Here are a few pictures of your students measuring volume with centimeter cubes. 

In 6th grade:

We have started the year analyzing data! This is one of my favorite units! Students have learned to create dot plots, find data landmarks such as mean, median, mode, and range. There are so many jobs in the world that require people to read graphs, charts, and data. Students have also read persuasive graphs and identified why they are persuasive. 

Here are a few pictures of students creating dot plots and analyzing the mystery dot plots that they created. 

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Students will receive homework most nights. Their homework assignments will be written down in their assignment journals daily. If you have any questions about that please feel free to contact me!

I am available for tutoring and homework help Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursdays from 7:30am-8:00am. I am also available during recess. Mrs. McGowan is available Wednesday morning for tutoring as well. 

6th graders will be receiving letter grades this year! Their tests scores will be averaged along with their homeworks which will make up the bulk on their overall letter grade for each trimester. ***Important*** If a 6th grader does not pass their math test (they must receive a 70% or higher to pass) they have to schedule two tutoring sessions to then retake their test. They may retake a test as many times as they want.