Math Update

Third Grade Third grade students started Hands on Equations, a way of using manipulatives and algebra problems. There is no additional homework other than the thinking problems for this week are to find at least one way to use the following 5 numbers: 6, 3, 2, -10, 7 to make 11; 3, 21, 11, 4, 6, to make -15. The more ways they can find to solve this problem, the more their thinking will be challenged. Fourth Grade Fourth graders did not have class this week. Their homework is the thinking problems. The thinking problems for this week are to find at least one way to use the following 5 numbers: -9, 6, 3, 7, 2 to make 12; 5, 2, 7, -4, 16, to make -9. The more ways they can find to solve this problem, the more their thinking will be challenged. Fifth Grade Fifth graders started a new book called Filling and Wrapping, about volume. They did 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 in class. If they didn't finish that, it's homework. The thinking problems for this week are to find at least one way to use the following 5 numbers: -9, 6, 3, 7, 2 to make 12; 5, 2, 7, -4, 16, to make -9. The more ways they can find to solve this problem, the more their thinking will be challenged.