How are we spending our last full week together in math? Let me give you a final wrap-up for the year... The picture to the left is from the experiment 5th grade did yesterday. We have been exploring the ways that math and science converge in physics. Each day this week, we have taken one of Newton's Laws and performed experiments that show how each of the three laws integrate observations of our world, scientific findings, and algebra concepts to explain relationships between force, motion, and acceleration (plus inertia and friction and much more!) Fourth grade has not been left out of having fun. They have, however, been living a new life! In order to explore concepts related to financial literacy, each student has been assigned a job, a family, and a home. They have had to live a few days in their role and keep a ledger of expenses as they incur them. These have included paying rent, determining pay after taxes, grocery shopping, filling the car up with gas, providing family entertainment, and many more of the things that adults in real life experience in their lives as it relates to money. Their final grade will be determined not by the amount of money they have in the end but how accurate they were able to keep their family's books! Third grade has been completing our last unit of study - but it is a fun one too! We have been completing experiments related to probability We have designed spinners, discussed heads/tails, predicted outcomes of random drawings. Our conversations have focused on the ideas of predicted outcome and actual outcome (and the discrepancy that usually exists between those two.) Maybe 12 years from now when they go to Vegas, they will remember the lessons from third grade before they plunk down $100 on a risky game!
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