Chapter 1 assessment day!

Today you have two goals for when you're done.

1. Complete this survey honestly. For teacher type in Mr. Flaten and I'll get the results, note: your name will not appear and I won't know who did which survey. :) I'll use your feedback to work on making the class better for you.

2. Xtramath.org 3. You may play games or do other quiet things until all are finished or time runs out. Thanks!

Evidence Gathering for Chapter 1 tomorrow!

Here's a practice link if you're like me and want more practice problems:

Test 1 practice link click here!

LCM day two and some review

Here's a list of things to do today to improve your skills and continue learning our current topics of study.

 1.     www.xtramath.org

 2. Form questions, only 5 of them :)

 3. Khan review topics ( choose at least one, but you can do all three)

IMPORTANT: MAKE SURE YOUR NAME OR NUMBER IS AT THE TOP RIGHT OF THE SCREEN OR ELSE YOU AREN'T LOGGED IN AND IT MIGHT NOT COUNT.  :)

          - LCM
          - GCF
          - Order of Operations

4. When everything else is complete you may play some games or continue with Khan Academy.

Least Common Multiples

Yesterday we did the Star Assessment, lots of data should come out of that and help to see strengths and gaps for each student.

Thursday though, we're on to the topic of LCM or least common multiple.  Guess what?  It's just like GCF, but you multiply all of the outside numbers together.

We'll watch the video today:
 Today use this form to answer the review questions:
https://docs.google.com/a/msd.k12.wi.us/forms/d/1EHtdz_PAPJHJRK5Uq4TGX3cQfIBbKLF6WER4wwhhVf0/viewform?usp=send_form

GCF - Greatest Common Factor

 Order of Operations review if you want more practice


 Also here's a practice link for GCF from Khan:
Greatest Common Factor practice

Fruit Shoot GCF

Factor Game - Find the factors of a number


Here's a method that we are going to look at to find the GCF easily for any numbers:

Upside down birthday cake

Enjoy the weekend!

Prime Factorization

Today we are starting prime factors and leading into greatest common factor and least common multiple.  Also, the first quiz is entered in the grade book.

Students, here's the practice link for you to work on today:

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/factors-multiples/prime_factorization/e/prime_factorization

and

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-fourth-grade-math/cc-4th-fact-mult-topic/cc-4th-prime-composite/e/prime_numbers

First Quiz of the Year

Today we are completing the first graded quiz of the year, it will be graded in three categories:

1. Whole number operations
2. Exponents
3. Order of Operations

There will be many opportunities to show knowledge of these topics if you scored a 1 or 2, including the test at the end of the chapter.

Tomorrow is an early release day, so not a normal math day, so we will resume on Thursday with Prime Factorization.  

Order of Operations

Today we're starting Order of Operations, also we were assigned our first homework assignment today.  It's practice 1.1 and 1.2 which focuses on long division and exponents.  Expect one take home assignment a week with any and all topics we've already covered.


Make 24 Game

Whole Number Operations, Specifically Long Division

Today we did more Long Division, I was excited to see so many students know how to do this already.  The biggest struggles I saw were putting the wrong numbers up and having to redo the calculations and knowledge of basic math facts.  We'll get there.  I was also pleased to hear that some students told me, "This doesn't seem as hard as I thought it would be!"  Good stuff!

Whole Numbers Operations

Today we reviewed whole number addition, subtraction, and most importantly long division.  Our focus of Tuesday will be long division.  There are four steps:

1. Divide
2. Multiply
3. Subtract
4. Bring Down

That's it!  We repeat that process until we run out of numbers to divide.

Also, we learned a little bit about Khan Academy.  This is a place to work on math more independently and also practice different levels of difficulty.  All the way from K to post secondary skills are found here.  There is a direct link on the right side of this page.

Intro to ChomeBooks Today

Today we continue rotations and each student will attempt to log in to them and learn the basics of how to use the computers. We use these for a lot of different tasks in math class, so this is step one. If you got to this page, please work on the form below:

https://docs.google.com/a/msd.k12.wi.us/forms/d/18INOaZ9e_bvvXTJXDOuQ-1ccNSpyhbbanAljf3N973M/edit

When the form is complete, try out this game:

http://www.hoodamath.com/games/suitup.html