Wednesday October 8th

Happy Wednesday! I hope everyone had an awesome 5 day break!

Getting back to business...

Math: 

As parents/math helpers, the language on the math assignment may seem foreign. In class, we completed all of the "Lesson 3 Problem Set". I tell my students that they should use this to help them complete their homework. 

If your student forgets... Remind them that times is multiplication, sum is addition and difference is subtraction. 

3 fifteens is the same as 3 groups of 15 or 3 x 15. The same with 4 twos. It is the same as adding 4 twos together OR 4 x 2. 

This part your student may become confused on because the students like to look at the problem and say 10 times 2.5 plus 13.5. However, when we say the problem like that, we would multiply 10 and 2.5. We are NOT going to get the same answer if we solve it like that right? So remind them to use the sum of, the difference of, etc. 

  Your student may work out each problem before they decide if its greater than, less than or equal to. However, it is not completely necessary (as you can see above). They can totally solve the problem like that, but it is much more time consuming than what I did above. 

We have a spelling test on Friday. I have all of the words in spelling city. Please encourage your student to practice 5 to 10 minutes each day. 

Thanks !

Mrs. C