Math: The First Week of School

 In math, students worked on long division, math facts, place value, problem solving and new vocabulary
 ( inverse operations: using multiplication to check division, periods (345,789,890 )<--one grouping of three numbers is a period, quotient ( the answer to a division problem ), divisor ( the number an equation is divided by), dividend ( the number being divided ), sum, product and evaluate.

Many students handed in Challenges to me this week.  Challenges are designed with Responsive Classroom ideology. If your child was not working on a Challenge, you may ask them to bring a few Challenges home next week. 

I did receive an email saying that students were getting emails from me about school work.  This is just a notification from Khan Academy that is allowing your child to work with me, as their teacher, in the program.   It asks for your child's school email to log on to our class.  I was adding all the emails this morning when the students had guidance class.  I was unaware that other devises at home would start saying that I had emailed your child, but of course this will happen as students have more devises.  I did not mean to leave parents out of what I was doing.  I was just working on student access to Khan Academy and Prodigy for next week. 

Learning the math facts is very important this year.  A few minutes during the evening helps so much with your student's math fluency during class.

Students worked on Sprints.  These will be sent home.  These Sprints are usually not completed in full. They are designed this way by Eureka Math.  Sheet A is completed, students discuss math patterns and then Sheet B is completed.  Students monitor how much they improved from one sheet to the second.  This activity is about your child's personal best, not about completion of the page.