Math Home Practice: Jan.29th to Feb.2nd

Please do 20 minutes of Math homework 2 or 3 evenings this week.

Review with Mom or Dad this problem we worked on in class today:

Let's pretend our field trip is in 3 days. Approximately how many hours away might it be? Explain your answer.
Here is a LEVEL 4 answer found in class today.

We discussed as well in class how if we figured out 3 days and we're currently lunch time, we might want to subtract 2 or 3 hours which would bring our total closer to 68 or 69 hours.

Other problem to try by yourself first and then with a parent at home:
The summer holiday starts in about 23 weeks. Describe how far away that is using a different unit (like months, hours). Challenge: Show your work using years (you'll need to use a fraction).

Finally, if you have time, keep learning about Math on the posters below, created by students of our classroom.

What Students Have Learned in Math So Far, What next?

Here's what we've worked on every day since September in Math:
(for better viewing, please click here)

Excellent Resources for Parents Helping their Child do Math at Home

Many Great Math Resources and Links: Click Here

Parents: here is a helpful video to help your child succeed: click here

Math Homework: Jan.22nd to 25th

Hi! Considering there is a PD day for students this Friday, if you could do 20 minutes of Math with your child on two separate nights this week, that would be great!

This week's homework:

Students have worked hard at creating excellent posters on topics/concepts/vocabulary we are learning about this year. I started with 7 Math Posters and will post more in the coming weeks. If your child understands a concept very well, move on to the next. Place Value is a good place to start if he/she struggles with that... and especially considering that in gr.4, decimals up to hundredths are learned.

Here is the link: Math Posters by Students Click Here

What else is new? In order to help meet our goals of improving student's Math skills, in junior grades we are doing Math Talks. Here is one of the books we are using to meet our goals. If you wish to borrow it, I can send lend you my copy for one evening. Good luck!

Double 36

Way to go Sophia, Maddie and Kayleigh! Here's how they used manipulatives to show double 36... in two different ways! Can you figure out how they did it? The image should be rotated a quarter turn clockwise. Oh, and there is a little mistake, can you see what it is?

Math Homework: Jan. 8th to 12th

Happy New 2018 Year!

Math: please take the time to sit with your child and do about 15-20 minutes two or three evenings this week. Other option is to have them do it on their own and then show you the work.

We've been doing "Number Talks" in class two to three times a week since early december. Looking at different strategies to solving computation problems helps students develop basic skills required for all Math and progressing towards more complex problems.

Ask your child to show you at least two different strategies to solve this:

43 - 9

Most will do it the traditional way, lining up the numbers and carrying:   

     43
   -   9
                     This strategy doesn't necessarily help the child understand.

Another strategy can be   43 - 10 (added 1 to make it friendlier) = 33 (add 1) = 34

Or, use a number line:    _____________ 34_+9___43_________________
                                             10     20     30     40     50

Or, use the decreasing number line:   ____  43 -9_34_______________________
                                                               50       40      30      20

Or, try 39 - 9 = 30 then add the 4 you took out = 34

Allow your child to think of the different strategies and ones they remember from class. Now, try these with them:

61 - 8                          71 - 39                       84 - 59                   247 - 98

Challenge them to more tricky ones! Have fun! M.K.