Can you believe it's December already?!!
These next three weeks will be jammed packed with learning and activities and fun! Hold on to your hats. In Math this week we will be jumping into division head first. Our study of division will begin basic, as we plan to use cubes and pictures to represent the process of dividing a larger group of things into smaller equal groups. Students will practice “acting out” the process of division. We will consume LOTS of word problems and use two different strategies to solve. The first strategy is the Octopus Method. In this type of word problem you of course are given a total to divide and a number of groups to divide that number into. You are in search of the number IN each group. For example:
Ms. Skrivanek had 10 tickets. She wanted to give five students the same amount of tickets. How many tickets will EACH student get? 10 divided by 5 is 2 tickets each.
The inverse of this problem is what we will study the latter part of the week. It is called the "Cookies Method." This is when you are given a total to divide, but this time you are told the number IN each group and you have to figure out how many groups there are. For example:
Ms. Skrivanek had 10 tickets. She gave two tickets to each student. How many students were given tickets, if each student was given the same amount? 10 divided by two is five students.
In Science we will dedicate a short time to studying friction.
We have a fun experiment planned as to which the kids will use hot wheels across carpet, tile, and concrete to discover which surface the car travels the fastest/slowest on. Through their findings the kids will deduct which surface contains the most friction.
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