This week in math:
1) Students will be receiving their grades for the Module 1 Mid-Module Assessment. Parents will sign and return the grade report. 2) Students will complete their I-Ready assessments online during class. 3) Students will complete lessons Homework for the week: Choice A: Complete Lessons 9-11 in the Green Book. Choice B: Master 5 skills OR complete 50 minutes in the 5th grade mission on Khan Academy.
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The Module 1 Mid-Module Assessment will be Friday, August 24.
The assessment covers: a) Comparing numbers in various forms (standard, expanded, unit) b) Multiplying and Dividing by Powers of 10 c) Rounding numbers to the nearest place value (millions through thousandths places) Students will complete lessons 5-8 in the Eureka Math book. Homework is due Friday, August 24: Choice A: Master 5 skills on Khan Academy, or spend 50 minutes on the 5th Grade Mission on Khan Academy outside of school hours Choice B: Complete the Lesson 5-8 paper homework assignments in the green Eureka book. This week, students will be learning classroom rules and procedures. Students will begin work on their first project, writing their own Autobiomathography. We will also start Module 1 of the 5th Grade Curriculum, and students will be building on prior knowledge to extend their learning about place value and decimal fractions.
I look forward to getting to know students this week, and I'm excited for another school year! - Mr. Crum When most parents of school-age children learned how to round numbers we were taught an answer-getting technique. The trick goes something like this:
Round 49.365 to the tenths place: If you want to round a number to the tenths place, look at the digit in the tenths place, in this case, the 3. When you find the number, look one space to the right. If the number is 5 or more, you round UP... if it is 4 or less, you round DOWN. In this case, the rounded number is 49.4 While this rounding procedure is simple, and you get the right answer every time. So what's the problem? Well, when you learn this procedure alone you don't really understand what is happening with the numbers. "Why did you round up, Beatrice?" "I rounded up because the 7 is greater than 5." Instead of teaching a simple rounding procedure now, math teachers work to help students understand the CONCEPT of rounding. We want our students to learn what is really going on with the numbers. When I ask my students to round 49.365 to the tenths place they will determine how many total tenths there are in the number. We call this DECOMPOSING the number, which they have been doing since kindergarten (if they have used the Eureka math curriculum). Students decompose 49.365 to 493 tenths 6 hundredths 5 thousandths. Since they want to find the closest tenth, they create a number line with 493 tenths or 49.3 at the bottom, and 494 tenths (one extra tenth) or 49.4 at the top. Then they determine the MIDPOINT between the two numbers, which requires them to look into the hundredths place. They determine that the midpoint is 49.35, and they place this on their number line. Next, students look to place 49.365 on the number line. If done correctly, they will place 49.365 slightly above the midpoint since the 6 in the hundredths place indicates that it is higher than the 5 in the hundredths place of 49.35. Since the number is above the midpoint, we round to the higher number because it is closer. We have determined that 49.365 is closer to 49.4 when rounded to the nearest tenth. The drawing below illustrates what this solution should LOOK like. This assignment is a fun way for students to get to know each other, and for Mr. Crum to get to know all of the students. Please pay careful attention to the details of the assignment, and the grading rubric. Students will receive a copy of the assignment in class. If the copy is lost, students will be responsible for making another copy with the attached document. Completed projects will be presented in call, and are due no later than Tuesday, August 15 at 8:15am. Beginning this week, students may complete I-Ready Assignments as part of their weekly homework. Students have received log-in information, and may complete lessons that have been assigned to them by me. I will be closely tracking their success rate, and I will work with them in areas where they continue to struggle.
As always, please reach out to me if you have any questions. Thanks, Mr. Crum This week we are working through Module 3 - Adding and Subtracting Fractions. The Mid-Module Assessment (Test) will be on Friday, December 9. The historical mathematicians assignment is due on Thursday, December 8. Presentations will be given the following week, December 12-16. A copy of the assignment and rubric are listed below. Students will complete a cumulative assessment for Modules 1-3 on Wednesday, December 14. This week in math we are working on dividing multi-digit dividends by two-digit divisors.
Homework this week: Student's Choice (choose 1): A) Module 2, Lessons 20-23 B) Master 5 skills on Khan Academy in the 5th Grade Mission (Students who complete the 5th grade mission will receive credit for skills mastered in Grades 6, then 7, and so on) How can I help my student this week?
This week in math we will be finishing up the first half of Module 2, with lessons 14 and 15 on Monday and Tuesday. The mid-Module assessment will be on Friday, and will cover lessons 1-15, Topics A-D. Links to parent guides for Topics A-D are below:
Topic A: http://www.lpssonline.com/uploads/G5M2Afinalversion.pdf Topic B: http://www.lpssonline.com/uploads/G5M2Bfinalversion.pdf Topic C: http://www.lpssonline.com/uploads/G5M2Cfinalversion.pdf Topic D: http://www.lpssonline.com/uploads/G5M2Dfinalversion.pdf Students have been encouraged to bring their math binders, journals, and folders home on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday night to prepare for the assessment on Friday. Homework for the week: Student Choice: A) Complete lessons 14 and 15 homework; B) Master 5 skills on Khan Academy. This week students begin working on multi-digit multiplication. We will review multiplying numbers by factors of 10, 100, and 1,o00 with other whole numbers, and using the distributive, associative, and commutative properties of multiplication.
We will review strategies for multiplying large numbers, including the area model, partial products, and the standard algorithm. Topic A parent link: http://www.lpssonline.com/uploads/G5M2Afinalversion.pdf Topic B parent link: http://www.lpssonline.com/uploads/G5M2Bfinalversion.pdf |