Good morning math families! This will be my final post for the year.  This week we will be wrapping up our 5A book. There will be a test on Thursday covering area. The students have learned how to find the area of a quadrilateral, a triangle, and a parallelogram (Monday's lesson). Our last day of math will be our last full day of school, one week from Monday. I'd like to have a math game day and a little party, too. I'll send out an email to request some snacks and drinks to be brought in. I have so enjoyed this group of students! Enjoy your summer!

Good morning math families, we have four more weeks of math. Can you believe it? We will spend two weeks finishing up our fractions unit (we are learning how to divide by fractions now). Ask your child if they can explain how dividing can be related to multiplying. Our Unit 4 cumulative test will be after that. Then our final unit is a review of perimeter and area. I've enjoyed teaching such a small group of kids this year. : )

Good afternoon, just a quick note to let you know what we're doing in math. We are half way through our fractions unit, and will have a test covering the first half of the material early next week. But we are also doing some AZ Merit test preparations, making sure that we've covered all the concepts that will be appearing on next week's final portion of that test. All is well!

Welcome back for our final quarter! We are well into our 3rd unit of the 5A text. This week we will learn about multiplication of a fraction by a whole number and then practice with word problems before taking our test on Thursday. The next unit is still working with fractions, so we will have plenty of time working through all of the concepts we learned before the break.

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!