Comparing and Ordering Decimals Group Activity (Grade 6)

Comparing and Ordering Decimals Group Activity (Grade 5)

Math Patterns

Class Survey Results Bar Graphs

Escher Inspired Tessellations

Escher Inspired Tile Art

Fraction math games

Working in small groups, students created math games to help understand equivalent fractions. They used Cuisinaire Rods, pizza slices and a set of fraction cards. Students taught others to play the games they invented. 

Constructing Nets

Dinosaur Dunk Tank

Do not be alarmed. No dinosaurs were hurt during this math lesson.

We have been:

1. practicing proceedural writing
2. investigating how the water displacement method can be used to find the volume of an irregular solid (Archimedes' Principle)
3. making a list of strategies we know how to use when solving super math problems
4. learning how to use alliteration

Three Dimensional Geometry Inquiry

Four Operations Math Test

We have been working on this unit for several weeks. Most of the students have made very good progress. Some are still experiencing difficulty with multiplication and division. Some are still using a multiplication chart as they do not yet have quick recall of math facts. Unfortunately, we need to move on as there are many more math units that need to be covered before the end of June. There will be a test on Monday, 14th April on the following:

Five Math Operations Test

• Addition: three digit to three digit numbers; decimals to hundredths including money amounts. 
• Subtraction: three digit numbers from a three digit numbers; decimals to hundredths including money amounts.
•  Multiplication: one digit by two digit whole numbers; two digit by two digit whole numbers; one digit by three digit whole numbers.
• Division: divide three digit whole number by one digit whole number

              

Grade Six Math Operations Test

• Addition: four digit to four digit numbers; decimals to thousandths.
• Subtraction: three digit numbers from a three digit numbers; decimals to thousandths including money amounts.
• Multiplication: decimal numbers to tenths by whole numbers (1.4 x 3); two digit by two digit whole numbers.
• Division: divide four digit whole number by a two digit whole number.

           

Quadrilateral Review

Grade 5 students have been reviewing the characteristics of quadrilaterals from the grade 4 curriculum.

On large polygons students have marked and written about:

• parallel sides
• equal sides
• angle measurements
• types of angles
• lines of symmetry

Grade 5 Math Test Sample Questions

MONDAY'S TEST WILL CONTAIN QUESTIONS SIMILAR TO THESE: 

Whole Numbers

A. Write these numbers in expanded form and words:

65 123,  78 456,  123 090,  12 003

B. Model these numbers using base ten blocks:  

437,  1 880,  2 404,  326,  22 040,  14 002

C. Order these numbers from least to greatest:

13 233, 324 567,  1 313,  64 330,  23 901

D. Use < or > to complete these math sentences:

23 390 ___  33 390

454 789 ___ 345 787

54 342 ___ 54 432

12 003 ___ 12 202

Decimal Numbers

A. Write these numbers in expanded form and words:

0.99,    0.73,   0.05,   0.42

B. Use hundredth grids to model these numbers:
0. 63,   0.15,    0.44,  0.23

C. Order these numbers from least to greatest:

0.4,  0.41, 0.34, 0.03, 0.12


Use either <, > or = to complete these math sentences:


0.5 ____ 0.50

3.21 ___ 3.12

4.07 ___ 2.07

0.61 ___0.65

Math games to help practice basic math facts

1. Sheppard Software has addition, subtraction, multiplication and division games that are a fun way to increase your math fact recall speed. http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm
2. Here's a link to a fun and fast multiplication facts game where you get to drive racing cars. http://www.arcademics.com/games/grand_prix/grand_prix.html

What to review for the Data Management test

Grades 5 and  6

Be able to give examples of each of the three ways we've used to collect data:

1. Observation
2. Survey
3. Experiment

What is the difference between primary and secondary data? Give examples.

Know how to create intervals for tallying data and use them to make a bar graph. Remember:

• all numbers in the set must be included
• numbers cannot be duplicated
• intervals must be equal in size

Grade 5 - Be able to:

• create a broken line graph
• calculate the mean and find the mode of a data set

Grade 6 - Be able to:

• create a line graph
• find the mean and the median of a data set

Collecting and Graphing Primary Data

In Math, we have been learning about collecting data. We know three ways to collect data:

1.  Survey 
2. Experiment 
3. Observation 

We have talked about primary and secondary data. Students wrote their own surveys and collected primary data by asking their classmates their survey questions. Next, we used Microsoft Excel and Word to create bar graphs of our primary data. Here are some examples.

Example Infograph

Create infographics

Today's Math Homework

Grade 6 - worksheets on Mean, Median and Mode
Grade 5 - textbook page 86 # 1 and 3; page 87# 6

Media and Technology Survey

Ask a friend or family member to complete the Media and Technology Survey that you brought home today.  It will only take them a few minutes. You can read the questions to them if you like. Please return the completed surveys to school on Monday. We will be using the data in our math lesson.

Today's Math: Broken-line and Line Graphs

If not finished in class, please finish at home:
Grade 5 - Page 66; questions 2, 3 and 4
Grade 6 - Page 75; A to F and 4.