were enthusiastic about asking questions about the human body. They may have questions for you tonight about bones! Later, the students headed to the computer lab to take the MAP-M (Measures of Academic Progress in Math). The MAP-M is a formative assessment that all students in Grades 3, 4, and 5 take on the computer to measure math progress. It is given two times a year so we can monitor how each student is improving in math. In math, we continued to practice solving for unknowns in various locations of a math problem. We focused on how the steps we take to solve the problem depend on where the unknown is and what operation we're doing. Many students are still struggling with this, so we will continue to review it. It is a very difficult concept! We are practicing using reasonableness to help us determine if our answer makes sense. For example: If I do the problem 960-______=573 and get 1,533 as my answer because I add 960+573=1,533, I should put the answer back into the problem to check to see if it works. 960-1,533=573 makes no sense! So I know that I should go back and check it. Students who are confused by the equals sign being at the beginning of the problem should move it to the end. 567=123+______ could be changed to 123+_______=567. We practiced viewing the two sides of the equals sign as two sides of a balance-they need to be equal to be balanced! Here's a cool website that students can experiment with: In science, we began a new experiment to test if different balls travel different distances in a set amount of time. The students used the data from our prior experiment to help them make predictions. Some students thought the ball that traveled the fastest would also travel the farthest, while some students thought the slowest ball would travel the farthest. I loved how they used words like air resistance, friction, and texture while considering/explaining their predictions. We will continue this experiment tomorrow. Homework Wednesday's Homework Math: None. Optional: Write 5 "balanced" problems like we did in class. Example: 4+15=29-10 Reading: Read for 20 minutes Spelling: Word Study Assessment on FRIDAY 10/11. Study!!
were enthusiastic about asking questions about the human body. They may have questions for you tonight about bones! Later, the students headed to the computer lab to take the MAP-M (Measures of Academic Progress in Math). The MAP-M is a formative assessment that all students in Grades 3, 4, and 5 take on the computer to measure math progress. It is given two times a year so we can monitor how each student is improving in math. In math, we continued to practice solving for unknowns in various locations of a math problem. We focused on how the steps we take to solve the problem depend on where the unknown is and what operation we're doing. Many students are still struggling with this, so we will continue to review it. It is a very difficult concept! We are practicing using reasonableness to help us determine if our answer makes sense. For example: If I do the problem 960-______=573 and get 1,533 as my answer because I add 960+573=1,533, I should put the answer back into the problem to check to see if it works. 960-1,533=573 makes no sense! So I know that I should go back and check it. Students who are confused by the equals sign being at the beginning of the problem should move it to the end. 567=123+______ could be changed to 123+_______=567. We practiced viewing the two sides of the equals sign as two sides of a balance-they need to be equal to be balanced! Here's a cool website that students can experiment with: In science, we began a new experiment to test if different balls travel different distances in a set amount of time. The students used the data from our prior experiment to help them make predictions. Some students thought the ball that traveled the fastest would also travel the farthest, while some students thought the slowest ball would travel the farthest. I loved how they used words like air resistance, friction, and texture while considering/explaining their predictions. We will continue this experiment tomorrow. Homework Wednesday's Homework Math: None. Optional: Write 5 "balanced" problems like we did in class. Example: 4+15=29-10 Reading: Read for 20 minutes Spelling: Word Study Assessment on FRIDAY 10/11. Study!!
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