This week, the Grade 5s and 6s have been learning slightly different math topics. Please read the appropriate section below to discover more! Grade 5s:Our main goals this week have been to: 1) review our multiplication tables 2) learn strategies to multiply two-digit by two-digit numbers 3) read problems carefully (underlining important information, reread, etc) in order to tackle harder problem solving questions (ask your child about our STAR method!) A big hit was our "Triangle Solitaire" game. Students loved this! Interested in playing at home? Sure! It's one of our practise strategies that you can find in THIS DOCUMENT (Strategy #4). Students also liked learning the area model and relating this to the standard algorithm (ie, how YOU learned multiplication at school!). I'm confident that the whole class can now multiply double digit by double digit numbers effectively. Grade 6s:As well as reviewing the above, Grade 6s have been focussing on factors and multiples this week. We have learned the difference between prime numbers and composite numbers. We have made factor rainbows (to determine the factors of a number) and factor trees (to represent a number as a product of its prime factorization). There was a lot of new vocabulary this week! An idea is to review the vocabulary bolded above with your child :-) A highlight was ACTUALLY creating "winter factor trees." This was hands-on, interactive fun, covid-style (ie, not touching anything that your partner has touched!). It took a lot of prep, and some patience, but student engagement was high so it was all worth it. Don't they look amazing?!?!
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In the junior grades, we learn how to take simple and composite patterns, create a table of values, find coordinate pairs and then graph the linear equations! See below for some examples of what we have been learning about in class:
We've continued to explore patterning by creating and determining pattern rules. Pattern rules can be simple rules (what to do to get from one number to the next one) or term pattern rules (how to find ANY number in the pattern by relating it to the position it's in). See below for Gr 5 and Gr 6 examples.
We've worked through a LOT of patterns in class. See below for Gr 5 and Gr 6 examples: Students are working hard to apply their number sense knowledge to determining pattern rules. We are pattern rule detectives!
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Mrs JorgensenI love math and think math jokes are funny. Not all of them though - just sum. Archives
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