Welcome new classmates into decimal division!

We are excited to welcome a few more students to our class!  In doing this, our class procedures will be changing slightly.  Make sure to bring your math notebook, two sharpened pencils, and your binder or math folder with you to class each day.  Our lesson will begin altogether, followed by group practice.  We will then break into groups with students rotating through working with me, reviewing past skills, and doing individual practice on frontrowed.com.  As we continue through this module with decimal division, the mid-module assessment of fraction and decimal operations will be Tuesday, November 17.  Keep working hard and including everyone in our class so we all can learn from each other!

The Game of Life

This week has been all about the future of careers, budgets, and debt using percent knowledge.  We will wrap up our game of life next week with some discussion about debt payoff.  Then we are into Eureka Module 2: Arithmetic Operations including division of fractions.  We will begin with fraction division and then continue into decimal operations.

End-Of-Module Assessment Friday 10/16

End-of-Module Assessment is here! On Friday we will take the final assessment, finishing our time with ratios, rates, and percentages.

The students have been working on ways to solve percent questions in multiple ways (proportions, equivalent fractions, 10% is ___ so..., multiplying/dividing by the decimal equivalent, etc).

We will continue our thinking about percentages with discount and tax problems through this week.

We are looking forward to moving into rational numbers- decimal and fraction division.

Halfway through the Ratios Module!

With laughter and fun, we are halfway through our first module of learning.  Students have learned about ratios, equivalent ratios, ratio table, double number lines, ratio equations, and now have graphed ratios on a coordinate plane!  They are very strong problem-solvers and great at coming up with new ways to explain and show their thinking!

They second half of the module moves into unit rates, comparing pricing, and percentages.  Much of this kind of practice is very applicable to the world outside of math class.  We will be looking at different sales strategies (20% off vs. BOGO, etc) as well as how stores price items to make a profit.  I look forward to seeing what the students come up with next!

Ratios Begin!

It's been so much fun to talk about ratios, write stories, and see our class successfully using ratios!

The creativity and laughter has been coupled with good math work as we learn about how to write and use ratios.  We will continue this week with equivalent ratios and using equivalent ratios to solve problems.

The link below has a guide for the module, including the types of tools we are using in class (tape diagrams, double number lines, coordinate plane).

Module 1 Ratios for Parents

Homework this week has been to complete the problem set or part of the problem set after the lesson.  The problem set is attached to the notes so the students can use their classwork practice to help them complete the homework.

I-Ready testing will be on Tuesday, September 1.  I am excited to see where students are starting this year and how I can help each student grow this year!

Back to school night will be Thursday, September 3 from 5-7pm!   I will be in 6th grade's meeting, but please come between the waves and I would love to meet you!

Welcome Back to School!

Welcome to our math classroom website this year!

I'm excited to meet each student and get to know you this year.  We have a lot of great topics in math.  You will be working together to understand more about decimal, fractions and percents as well as learning about ratios, algebra, 3-D geometry, and statistics.  I love these math topics because you can see them in your lives almost everyday.

Look forward to math discussions, finding different ways to explain your work, and projects that bring together your interests with the math you're learning.

See you August 19th!