Tuesday November 18th

Happy Tuesday!

Today, we are beginning our journey into division.

In one part, we are multiplying by 10's, 100's, and 1000's which we have done earlier this year. Your student can plug the original number into the place value chart and shift it accordingly.

If you look at 1a. you can see that I wrote 3 divided by 1. This is something we easily know. the answer is 3. Then we take a look at the original numbers. We can see that we can cross out 1 zero on each side and we still have one left over, which leaves us with 30.

When you look at number 2, we can do something very similar, except we are using more than 10's, 100's and 1000's. For instance if you look at 2b, you can see that 18 divided by 2 is 9. Then you see that there are 2 zeros in both 200 and 18000. When you cross out 2 on each side, you still have one left. so 18,000 divided by 200 is 90.

There is a spelling test tomorrow!

Thanks,
Mrs. C

Wednesday November 5th

Hello families!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Wednesday!

Let's get to business : ]

We are learning to convert in math. The students were told to bring their conversion paper home with them. This will give them what they need to know in order to solve the problems.

If you take a look at 2a, we are trying to figure out how many feet are in 18 yards. If we know that there are 3 feet in 1 yard, we can multiply 18 by 3 to get our answer of 54 feet.

Now, take a look at 2e. This one we are converting 2 miles into yards and feet. Fortunately, our conversion chart tells us that 1 mile equals 1,750 yards and it also equals 5,280 feet. Now all we have  to do is multiply each of those numbers by 2, since we have 2 miles.

The story problems are similar to the others, except the students have to uncover what problem they are trying to solve. We are going to have to convert a component in each problem in order to solve it.

We are having our spelling test tomorrow!

Thanks,
Mrs. C