I found a wonderful YouTube Channel that goes along with our Math curriculum Homework. Here is the video that goes with tonight's homework! I hope you find it helpful.
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This week as part of our division unit in math we will be discovering and working with prime numbers and factors. The homework actually looks fun!
That's right we are dividing in 4th grade! This week we will be working though division. Hopefully by the end of the week you child will be dividing the way you learned! That's the goal!!
We keep talking about how math will be important through out our lives and this week the topic came up again, as we were studying the Metric System. Knowing that this system is not used a lot in the USA students wondered why we take time to learn it. Besides the fact that it's part of our standards, why do we learn the metric system? I remember as a student asking why don't we use this system more? It is less complicated then the US system of measurement. But the advantages of learning the metric system do not stop there. Here are a few more reasons:
Metric units! That's right we are ready to explore conversion of metric units! We will be on this subject for a little over two weeks. The Big Ideas we want to get out of these few weeks are finding common units, and converting from one unit to another. We will be talking about place value and how to apply what we have learned to math ideas (addition, subtraction) that we have already mastered.
We will also be talking about how to apply this information to word problems. Before Christmas vacation 4th graders had an opportunity to take an interim ISAT assessment. As teachers we have gained a lot of valuable information about what we need to work on for the next few months. Including reading and following directions. We also will be working on how to review our work to be sure that we have answered questions completely. These last few weeks have been quite busy with all of our fraction work. We've compared fractions with like denominators, like numerators, we've ever worked with finding a common denominator. I love hearing "I get it!" and "Oh I can do this!". On the days when math is especially difficult we often back up and try it again. Then we are more successful!
The few days before Thanksgiving vacation we were able to start adding and subtracting fractions. Luckily for us they already had like denominators. We will continue along this path for the next week or so, to be sure that we are all very comfortable with fractions. Below are are few of the problems students will see this week. 1/8+3/8+4/8= 11/10- 4/10- 1/10= 10/15+7/15+12/15+1/15= A baker has 2 pans of corn bread. He served 1 1/4 pans. what fractions of a pan was left? Joanie wrote a letter that was 1 1/4 pages long. Katie wrote a letter that was 3/4 page shorter than Joanie's letter. How long was Katie's letter? The next few lessons in Math will be comparing Fractions. We started this a few days this last week but the plan is dig really deep this week in the excitement of comparing fractions
We will be using number lines, finding common denominators, playing games and applying fractions to real life. It should be fun!! Have you heard about Zearn.org? Mrs.C's class started this week using this fun and exciting tool. This website works along with our math program. It contains short lessons, fact practice, math related games and more. If you get a minute have your 4th grader log-in and show you what the fuss is all about.
This coming week we will be beginning to compare fractions. The strategy we will be starting with is using a number line. Thanks in advance for helping with this fraction work. I know that fractions are "scary" to some but be brave and try a few of the following problems.
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