4th grade: Geometry
- Angles, rays, lines, triangles and quadrilaterals
- Pipe cleaners and straws make awesome shapes
- Equilateral, isosceles and scalene triangles
- We started using Reflex Math to improve math fact fluency
5th grade: Numbers and Operations
- Arrays (think 15 poker chips arranged into a 3 x 5 grid, so 3 x 5 = 15)
- Talked about columns and rows in a table (so this can be generalized beyond arrays)
- Factors and fact families
- 3 x 5 = 5 x 3?! Who knew?!
- We started using Reflex Math to improve math fact fluency
6th grade: Integer Operations
- After meditating do 4 - 5 quick problems of the day (POD)
- This week's POD have showed me that we need to shore up multi-digit multiplication and division
- As a result we mostly did multi-digit division using worksheets with visual cues
- Continued building intuition using poker chips to model positive and negative number differences and sums
- Introduced explicit rules to pair with intuitive exercises to build in 2 levels of understanding
- Completed a puzzle with different integers sums and products were matched up to "fit" pieces together
- We started using Reflex Math to improve math fact fluency
7th grade: Order of Operations
- Difficult and pedantic but necessary
- We are labeling one side of the board P(parenthesis), E(exponents), MD (multiply and divide) and AD (addition and subtraction)
- We cross off each letter from top to bottom as we complete all the operations of each kind before proceeding to the next
- Order of Operations Scavenger Hunt!
- Took Quiz 1
8th grade: Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying and Dividing Polynomials
- We played Red Fish, Blue Fish, Yellow Fish, Blue Fish Polynomials!
- Reviewed and further practiced polynomial addition and subtraction
- Practiced using the box method for polynomial multiplication
- Took Quiz 1!
