We are continuing to work on our math books that students started during CMAS testing. Each pairing of students is creating an info page about a unit we learned this year. By the end of this project, we will have "books" for students to take home, and for us to share with younger classes.

 

We will also continue to work on Elapsed Time and have a short test on Wednesday. 

Welcome back from spring break! For the first half of this week, we are focusing on elapsed time and time zones. Students will learn how to add and subtract within the different time zones in the United States. Then, we are going to shift into reviewing shapes and symmetry (and other past units if we have time).

 

CMAS is coming up next week, so if you want to review past units like multiplication/division or fractions, let me know and I can send home some resources.

We will be working on our fraction pizza to end our fractions unit. We will then move on to learning about time, liquid volume, and mass! This is a super fun unit.

 

Please make sure to continue to review multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, and area! You can create problems yourself, look up free ones, or use Big Ideas or MobyMax.

 

MobyMax:

username: firstname.lastname

password: 123

 

Big Ideas Log-Ins will be sent home this week.

We are still focusing on fractions! We are at a few different places with fractions in class. Here are the things we are working on: comparing fractions with the same denominators, comparing fractions with different denominators, adding fractions with the same denominator, simplifying fractions, adding fractions with a different denominator, and adding fractions that are mixed numbers.

We will continue to work with fractions! Students will transition from comparing fractions with the same denominator to comparing fractions with different denominators. Students will also work with mixed numbers.

This week we are learning how to identify fractions visually and on a number line. Students will learn how to compare fractions as well.

We are spending a few more days on inverse operations in relation to multi-digit addition and subtraction problems. Then, we will move on to identifying fractions and using number lines to determine a fractions value. 

 

There will be no Multiplication Race this week because students do not have school on Friday!

This week we are finishing up our unit on mutli-digit addition and subtraction work. Students are focusing on the addition properties (commutative and associate) to help them solve more difficult problems. We will also review how to do addition and subtraction on a number line.

This week we are finishing up our unit on area (length x width and area models). We are transitioning to multi-digit addition and subtraction. We will focus heavily on regrouping.

Students will continue to use arrays to understand area. They will also learn how to use length x width to determine the area of regular polygons. We will incorporate distributive property with finding area.

This week in math we are taking a four question distributive property test to make sure we can move on from the unit. Then, we will be moving into relating area to multiplication. In this unit, we will be using area models and arrays. 

 

On Friday, we will have our very first Multiplication Race! If you would like to participate, please let me know by Thursday at 3:00pm.