MATH

The first week of school the students 'played' math games with foam dice working on their multiplication math facts. We spent a lot of time working on multiplication fluency with single and double digit multiplication. I wanted to get the students thinking about math again after the long summer break.

Last week we began exploring decimals. Students worked in groups with math manipulatives and grid paper to investigate decimals.

This week the students worked on reading and writing decimals, place values and expanding decimals. The students began writing decimals in written form, standard form and expanded form and we compared the three expressions.

Tuesday, 9/22: the lesson began with a life skill-using a check register. All sixth grade students will be filling out a check register to record their PCA bucks earned through their weekly citizenship grade. Homework-Math A and B were asked to complete exercise A, problems 1-8 on Page 10 and Math C was assigned Exercise A, Page 10 problems 9-16.

Wednesday, 9/23: students worked in groups to create their own decimal problems by using dice and dominios. Students were then asked to write those problems in expanded form.

HOMEWORK: On Monday Practice Sheet 1-2 was handed out and given to students to practice the skills we have been working on in class. The Practice Sheet is due Friday, Sept. 25.