Math Foundations 5

Greetings!

At the end of each week we will recap what we have learned and done in class. This is a great place to see what students are engaging in during class time.

Week 11 and 12

It's Derby Car time! Students are working in pre-selected teams to build the fastest car. Students iterate through different variations to test the car and see if they can increase its speed to be the fastest car. We are using the maker space and a variety of recycled materials to innovate wisely in this project. Which team will be the champions?

Weeks 9 & 10

Moving forward, this week we are connecting ratios to percents. This helps students connect fractions, decimals and percents together from their previous understanding. Most of the learning here works to think flexibly about different ways of calculating percents of numbers; including discount. We also use primary source data from historical US census records to connect percentages to real data.

Week 7 & 8

This week we applied rates and ratios to speed and time. Students collected data on Hotwheels cars to calculate the average speed. This is going to lead directly into the final project of the trimester. In this project, students will be going through the engineering process (what they work on in science) to build derby cars.

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Week 5 & 6

Deepening our learning, we found that we can compare prices of goods using unit rates. This can help with spending and budgeting in the future. Some places, like grocery stores, have calculated the unit rate for us. Our week ended with us using rates to find average speed. We collected class walking speed and measured the distances that we traveled. All this work is leading up to our unit project, Derby Car Racers.

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Week 3 & 4

We continued our work with rates by generating equivalent ratios. We learned that we can use fractions to show this. We also learned that we can simply ratios as fractions to find unit rates. One activity that was a bit challenging was looking at the ratios of federal spending. We noticed that the money spent on education v. defense changed significantly over the last 50 years.

Trimester 2

Week 1 & 2

Welcome to trimester 2. In these weeks we transitioned from fractions to ratios. We learned that a ratio can be represented as a fraction but a ratio is not a fraction. We explored that we can compare parts to parts, whole to part, and part to whole. Some of the activities included comparing animal jumps and lengths, restaurant seating capacities, and even Legos.

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Week 11 & 12

To end the trimester, we took an exam on fractions and decimals. Then we wrapped up with a project where students created a food truck menu. Students were able to choose their theme and items. There was so much creativity! Students then shared their menu between both MF 5 classes.

Weeks 9 & 10

In these weeks we started our work with fractions and decimals. First, we reviewed content from prior years where students added and subtracted fractions and decimals. Then we spent time working on multiplication and division of decimals. We used models and tiles to create representations of fractions and those operations. We even when on a virtual safari to apply decimal operations.

Weeks 7 & 8

In weeks 7 and 8, we spent time reviewing for our first exam. We learned that preparing for an exam can be challenging because there is more content to remember and apply than a quiz. We also finalized our project and presented it to the class. Each of us got positive feedback from our peers. In our next unit, we will be working with operations involving fractions and decimals. These types of numbers are important to understand the part-whole relationship that we will explore later in the year.

Weeks 5 & 6

In these weeks we started our work with understanding negative numbers. We learned that the number line extends to the left beyond zero and gets smaller the further it moves. We also learned about absolute value and how it represents the total distance between a number and zero. Later, we began work on our first project, My Integer Time Line. We learned that we can represent moments in our lives as integers and learn a little more about the world we live in. Week 7 will bring our first Exam and our project presentations.

Weeks 3 & 4

This week... we worked on expanding factoring with exponents. We also looked at squares, cubes and their roots. We introduced the concepts of negatives and how they work with the number line. Our number line work expanded to fractions and decimals and a little human number line !

Week 1 & 2

This week ... studied on ALEKS and tested what we know so far. Lots of warm-ups and ways to focus on math. There was a lot of teamwork and collaboration. We did games working on the four operations. Critical thinking questions were in all activities. We learned about having a growth mindset. We used factoring with GCF and LCM.

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