Math class updates for you this week. First off, third grade math class is learning to complete long multiplication and long division problems in our latest unit. The students have been working with multiplying and dividing money (dealing with decimals in the process which is extra tricky.). They have been doing a great job of persevering and learning to apply their understanding of these concepts in tricky problems and situations. Give them a 2-digit number times a 2-digit number and make them show off their new skills! Fifth grade math students is working on a variety of lessons. First off, we have the Stock Market Game going strong. All of the groups are invested in stocks right now and anxious to check their progress each Tuesday. Last Friday, we had a guest speaker, Randy Petrelli from Goodwin Financial. He talked with the kids about investment strategies and how to minimize the risks inherent on Wall Street. Here are a couple of shots from his visit: This week, fifth grade also began to explore ratio and rates. The students all had problems from the real world where they had to determine the unit rate of a situation (price per pound of bananas, heartbeats per minute of a blue whale, miles per gallon in a car, and many more scenarios.) Each small group was asked to create a rate chart and translate that data onto a graph, as well as create an algebra problem that related to their findings. Great application of learning to see how math is actually useful beyond Werner's doors! A couple more pictures are here and even more are on the photo page of the website. Last but not least, fourth grade math students are working with converting from fractions to decimals and to percent and looking at where in life do we really need to be able to perform these functions. We looked at a children's statistics picture book that shared data if the world were proportionally shrunk to 100 people what would be those 100 people's nationalities, languages, religions, and many more interesting data sets. We left off the week in the middle of our work showing that data in fractions, decimals and percent's. We'll finish that work and share our findings next week. Below are a few pictures of students working and the video we watched with some more fascinating information about the people in our world. I overheard one student, after we watched this video, say to his partner, "Watching a video like that makes you grateful!" I have to agree - check it out for yourself...
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