Parents
These are links to videos we viewed with the students the first week of school in order to share great ways to think about Math. Please take the time to watch these at your convenience.
Parents
These are links to videos we viewed with the students the first week of school in order to share great ways to think about Math. Please take the time to watch these at your convenience.
Tips for a successful year
Make sure your child is at school everyday. Class discussions and opportunities to explore problems with classmates cannot be reproduced.
Help your child find a place and time for homework. Stick with a routine everyday. They should be getting the Green Light in Reflex EVERY NIGHT. They will also have some days with additional assignments and should have these written down in their agendas.
When assisting with homework (also watch the videos above to understand our thinking/reasoning as teachers for these suggestions):
Help your child make sense of the problem by asking them questions (find out what they know about the problem and what they are trying to figure out).
Encourage your child to use problem-solving strategies (draw a picture, act it out, work backward, guess and check, use simple numbers at first, etc.)
If you have specific classroom questions, please contact your child's math teacher via email. Email addresses can be found on our school website under Staff and Fifth Grade.
How does my student need to study for quizzes and tests?
Review Sheets are sent home at the end of the unit, once all material has been covered. These review sheets are worked on in class (sometimes asked to finish for homework). They can be used to help the students prepare for the test.
Students need to ask themselves which ones they struggled with the most and then spend time practicing those types of problems in preparations for their assessments.
Helpful videos, website practice links, Flocabulary videos (on the Flocab website- your student knows how to access this site), and practice printed pages or pages from the workbook are used throughout the unit (should be kept in Math folder for the unit).
All of these resources are meant to be visited as many times as needed to help your child prepare for their upcoming quizzes and tests, but ultimately, master the mathematical skills taught. Remember, math is a building-block, so students need to be continually practicing previous skills, especially if those skills were an area of weakness.
All students should be getting a Green Light in Reflex EVERY NIGHT for homework.
Helpful Multiplication Review Videos
Understanding the Standard Algorithm
Standard algorithm with Larger Numbers
Helpful Division Review Videos
Partial Quotient Division with 1-digit Divisor
Partial Quotient Division Strategy with 2-digit divisor