Good morning! Well the students had a difficult time with the math test on Thursday. Most of you know they are making some pretty detailed test corrections. My goal is that they will identify that the majority of their mistakes were due to rushing through the test, not reading carefully, not calculating carefully, etc. Perhaps a couple of students did not understand one or two problems, but the rest of them simply hurried and made careless errors. I will be giving a similar test on Wednesday, allowing them to change their grade if they improve. Tuesday's Lyceum period will be dedicated to reviewing and helping those who did struggle with particular concepts. The rest of the week we will be looking at order of operations again, adding parentheses into the mix.

Good morning, I was reminded this week that I hadn't written a math blog this quarter! So sorry. Since Mrs. Scott took over writing the regular 4th grade blog, I'd forgotten that I still needed to update the math blog. So, let me tell you what's going on in our class. We started 5A and are almost through with the first unit. The students have a study guide that is due on Monday. We'll review Monday and Tuesday, on Wednesday they don't have math b/c of Galileo testing, and then the test will be on Thursday. I gave them a cumulative test before we started the new book and discovered that many of the concepts taught from 4B had already been forgotten. So I will now be including some questions on their 5A tests that review older concepts. We don't ever want them forgetting skills in math, because it should always spiral and go deeper as they progress through the books. The next unit is about order of operations, mental math strategies, and word problems. Have a great weekend!