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Thursday, April 24, 2014

In the Paper Homework Questions

These are the questions that you need to complete your math assignment.  Please answer them at the bottom of your graph and return it to class tomorrow.
 
Reflection: Answer on bottom of bar graph

How many words did you find?  How did you represent your number as a fraction and decimal?  Which fraction is larger? How do you know? Which decimal is larger?  How do you know? 

 

What was the scale increment of your graph and why?  What are the other important parts of your bar graph? Why are they important? 

Make 2 comparison sentences based on your bar graph.

Friday, April 18, 2014

Read Across KY March Madness

We have finally come to the end of our Read Across KY March Madness contest.  Students worked really hard and completed over 100 reflections.  Our classroom mathematicians tallied up our teams scores and here are the results.

Team 4 was the overall winner with 97 points.
-their team MVP was Shayla Casey, who completed 12 reflections and  2 regions.
-Landon completed 10
-Will completed 7
-Megan F. completed 7
-Caleb completed 7

Team 3 came in second place with 58 points.
-their team MVP was Madison Garriott, who completed 10 reflections.

Team 1 came in 3rd place with 55 points.
-their team MVPs are Jaida Annis and Kevin Cook, both with 9 reflections.

Team 2 came in 4th place with 47 points.
-their team MVP was Dustin Keown, who completed 12 reflections and 3 regions.

Our overall winners for the classroom challenge were Shayla and Dustin.  Great job guys!  I can't wait to see what the winning team chooses as their reward.

 

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Reading Homework

On Edmodo, read the article Patriots vs. Loyalist.  As you read make three inferences about your reading in your steno.  Make sure that you are using the text structure to help you create deeper inferences.  Choose one of your inferences to put on Edmodo.  Make sure to use a Thinking Stem, Ms. K's favorite word, and Evidence and Schema in your inference.