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!

Greetings! Only two more days of math this year!!! We have finished our 4B book and I'm using these last few days to review the most frequently missed types of problems from our Galileo tests in September. The kids enjoy using the computers and I figured every extra time I can put them in front of them, is good practice. I will use them on Monday and Tuesday this week. Enjoy your long break!

Good morning math families. We only have one more week of math this semester. We will have our unit test tomorrow on data analysis. The students have learned how to find the mode, median, range, and mean of a set of data. They have also learned how to read various graphs. The rest of the week we will work on the final unit of the book, volume. There will not be a test at the end of this unit. We will be ready to begin the 5A book in quarter three.

Good afternoon! We are finishing our quick review of area and perimeter on Monday and will review and practice all day Tuesday. We will have a test on Wednesday and then we'll be all set to start the next unit when they come back on Monday.

Good evening, we just finished Unit 8 on Geometry and will have our final quiz on Monday. The next three units are all really short and are review from concepts covered in 3B. On Tuesday we'll begin Unit 9 - Area and Perimeter. This unit will wrap up before Thanksgiving. Have a super week!

Good morning, I wanted to thank you for sending in some treats for our little impromptu math party on Friday. I decided to have fun with them since we finished up that section of our geometry unit. We're still going to be working on geometry for the remainder of the quarter. This week we begin with quadrilaterals and review area and perimeter. I remember last year it was rough because the kids had forgotten how to multiply double digit numbers. So I anticipate a bit of review in that area before we tackle area with double digit figures. We had excellent results on the test on Thursday, averaging 88%! This is a great group of kids and I am really enjoying them. : )