Math Update

Third Grade Third grade students started Hands on Equations, a way of using manipulatives and algebra problems. Students are to make up their own thinking problem to bring to class. The thinking problems for this week are to find at least one way to use the following 5 numbers: 10, 6, -3, 5, 2 to make 25; 5, 6, -7, 4, 13, to make 16. The more ways they can find to solve this problem, the more their thinking will be challenged. Fourth Grade Fourth graders have 2.1-2.3 in Bits and Pieces III this week for homework. The thinking problems for this week are to find at least one way to use the following 5 numbers: 10, 6, -3, 5, 2 to make 25; 5, 6, -7, 4, 13, to make 16. The more ways they can find to solve this problem, the more their thinking will be challenged. Fifth Grade Fifth graders are in a book called Filling and Wrapping, about volume. They have 1.4, ACE problems 1-14, 2.1 and 2.2 for next week. 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: 10, 6, -3, 5, 2 to make 25; 5, 6, -7, 4, 13, to make 16. The more ways they can find to solve this problem, the more their thinking will be challenged.