Platonic Solids!

Today we made platonic solids in our classroom!

You can make all five platonic solids using the nets above.  Or you can Google each of the shapes for larger templates.  Color them in, cut them carefully and tape them up!

Tonight's homework is to bring in your box if you haven't brought one in yet!

Have an awesome day and enjoy the nice weather!

-Miss K  :)

Find a box!

Tonight's homework is to bring in a box by Wednesday.  It must be something that you wouldn't mind being used in class.  IT MAY GET DAMAGED, so don't bring in anything precious!  Keep it shoe box size or smaller.  The funkier the shape, the better!!!

Check out the videos from class today in the post two posts ago!

-Miss K  :)

Quiz Today!

Thank you for your hard work on the quiz today!  I hope to have it graded by mid-week next week!

Have a great weekend!

-Miss K  :)

Intro to 3D shapes

http://vimeo.com/33480080

PROTEIGON from BURAYAN on Vimeo.

















-Miss K  :)

Quiz Tomorrow!

STUDY STUDY STUDY!!!

The answers to the bright yellow sheet are here...

Rectangle game

More rectangles

How to find area and perimeter

Trapezoid help

More trapezoids

Triangle Area

Basketball Geometry more than what we study, but still fun!  Skip circles.

More Basketball Geometry Perimeter

Area of a Triangle

Study Study Study!

Have a great night!  See you tomorrow!

-Miss K  :)

Infographic Assignment

Hello all!  Happy April Fool's Day!  Thanks for not tricking me today!

As you know, we began working on our infographics today in class.  The ones I showed you in class as well as some additional infographics are included in this previous post.  Please click on the link to see the various pictures and watch the videos.

We will finish our infographics in class tomorrow and will include the following items in our projects:

• Area of a square
• Area of a rectangle
• Area of a parallelogram
• Area of a triangle
• Area of a trapezoid
• Perimeter
• Area of irregular figures

If you have any questions about the assignment, please check in with me tomorrow during class to review the requirements, discuss ideas, get help being creative, etc!

Thanks and have a good night!

-Miss K  :)

More Trapezoids

I just realized that I didn't post yesterday or Tuesday!!!!  WOW!  We've been doing so well in class, that I forgot some people might want tutorials!

We've been working on trapezoids yesterday and today.

Here are the two tricky problems from class today:

Have a great weekend!  Remember, we have a quiz next Friday!  Happy Easter to those of you that are celebrating!!!

-Miss K  :)

No Homework Tonight!

Thank you for your hard work on the Prognosis Test.  If you haven't completed the test, we will find a time for you to do so in the next couple of days!  Please check in with me if you need to arrange a time outside of class.

No homework!  Have a lovely Passover if you are celebrating the holiday!  I will be going to a family friend's house for my Seder this evening!

See you tomorrow when we will continue working with irregular figures and attending a presentation on the upcoming Math-a-thon tomorrow.

-Miss K  :)

More Triangles!!!!

Please complete the "More Area Problems" worksheet for homework tonight.  You may use a calculator!

-Miss K  :)

Discovering the Area of Triangles

Everyone did an excellent job of creating posters explaining how we determine the area of a triangle!  Tonight's homework is to complete worksheet 4-6 on Triangles.  You may use a calculator.  Be sure to include labels as you work; area is squared!

A = Base times Height divided by 2

-Miss K  :)

Minute to Win It!

I hope that everyone enjoyed class today!  I know that I had a blast!

Here are the results!

In the Cup Stack, Red and White Class had the high score with 7 cups stacked at the end of a minute!!!!

The Pencil Bounce had four winners that got all 10 pencils in the container!  There was a ten in red and green classes and two people got tens in blue class!!!

The pasta pick up had a winner in red class and white class, and they tied with 13 pieces of pasta!

The candy carry was dominated by green class in which one person was able to transfer 19 pieces of candy!

Here's the data below!  (Sorry it is a little messy!  It was hard to transfer so much data with the colors, etc.)

Tomorrow in class we will use excel to find the mean, median, mode and range!  Then we begin our second look at Geometry!

No homework tonight!  Have a great night!

-Miss K  :)

CMTs are done!!!!!

Congratulations on finishing the CMTs!!!!!

Back to semi normal on Monday, but really normal on Wednesday!

-Miss K  :)

Happy Pi Day!!!!

I hope that you enjoyed the movie the last few days!  Back to using our brains tomorrow!

Happy

Day!

-Miss K  :)

Congratulations on Finishing the CMT Packet!

No homework tonight, but bring in a snack if you want for our special movie tomorrow!

-Miss K  :)

Last night working on the CMT packet!

Please finish you CMT packet tonight!  We correct tomorrow!

-Miss K  :)

First day of the Math CMT

It sounds like everything went well!  Keep up the great work!

Tonight's homework is to complete strands 10 and 11, but feel free to go on and complete 12, 15 and 21 if you are able!

See you tomorrow!  (Hopefully we won't have any issues with the potential snow!!!)

-Miss K  :)

Strand 9C and 9D

Tonight's homework is to complete strands 9C and 9D in your CMT packet.  As a hint, you should answer short answer questions like this:

if you choose to show your work.

Have a great day!

Miss  

Word Problems!

Tonight's assignment is to complete strand 9a and 9b.  These are word problems, so work carefully, they can be tricky!

Again, if you finish early or have extra time, please work on strands 10, 11, 12, 15, and 21!

-Miss K  :)

Strand 8!

Is due on Monday!  Make sure that you have strands 1-8 done for Monday and feel free to get to work on strands 10, 11, 12, 15 and 21 if you have time!

-Miss K  :)

Strand 7!

DO IT!  :)  (and maybe some of strand 8 too while you are at it!)  :)

-Miss K  :)

What? More CMT prep? Who would have thought?

Today was Strand 4!  That's all!  Have a good night!

-Miss K  :)

Day two of CMT Prep!

Tonight's homework is to complete strands 3 and 6.  They should go pretty well, but here are some pointers for strand three from MathIsFun:

Fractions, Decimals and Percents

Converting Decimals to Fractions

Converting Fractions to Decimals

Converting Decimals to Percents

Converting Fractions to Percents

Equivalent Fractions

Converting between Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions

Good luck on tonight's HW!  Feel free to work on strands 10, 11, 12, 15 and/or 21 if you finish tonight's hw and have some time to do more work!

-Miss K  :)

CMT prep!

Welcome back everyone!  Are you as tired as I am?

We started working on our CMT packets today and your homework tonight is to complete Strands 1 and 2.  Strand one is about place value and strand two covers pictorial representations of numbers.

As you already know, we've missed quite a few days of school, so we are a little bit behind in our CMT prep and I strongly encourage you to get some extra work done if you can!  Though tonight's homework is Strands 1 and 2, I encourage you to complete strands 12, 15 and 21 if you have the time to get more work done.  After that, please work on strands 10 and 11 if you can.  Otherwise, the schedule is as follows:

Mon “F” Day February 25th	Tues “A” Day February 26th	Wed “B” Day February 27th	Thurs “C” Day February 28th	Fri “D” Day March 1st
Strands 1 and 2 45 problems	Strands 3 and 6 34 problems	Strand 4 47 problems	Strand 7 46 problems	Strand 8 24 problems
Mon “E” Day March 4th	Tues “F” Day March 5th	Wed “A” Day March 6th	Thurs “B” Day March 7th	Fri “C” Day March 8th
Strands 9A and B 24 problems	Strands 9C and D 18 problems	Strands 10 and 11 23 problems	Strands 12, 15 & 21 30 problems	Correction Day

Thanks and good luck!!!!

-Miss K  :)

Haxaflexagons!

It was a blast making our Hexaflexagons in class today!  This is the site that I got the templates from if you want to make some on your own!



Have a wonderful break!!!

-Miss K  :)

Tonight's strange homework!

Soooooooooo, in case you hadn't noticed, we missed a whole bunch of school due to the storm!  Well, I had planned for you to take a test yesterday and obviously that didn't happen!  In order to get out test done before break, I have given you the test in class and am allowing you to work on it at home this evening.  Please feel free to use your notes and review posts on the blog to help you.  THIS WILL NOT COUNT AS A FULL TEST, rather as a graded assignment/quiz.  I will be able to decide once I have a better understanding of how it goes for everyone!

As you know from our discussion in class, I fully acknowledge that I was not able to teach you about Histograms prior to giving out the test, yet they are on the assignment.  As I said in class, I want you to do your best on that question, using the notes, examples and information that I provide in this post.  I will also give you a few minutes in class tomorrow to further review the concept of a Histogram.  I will very likely give partial credit and/or reduce the points on that question so that it is fair.  To be totally honest, I want to see how everyone handles the problem before I decide.  For example, if everyone does really well on it, I don't want it to be worth less.  Once again, I am going to play it by ear and let you know!

And now, on to Histograms...

From Mathisfun.com

Histograms

A Histogram is a graphical display of data using bars of different heights.

It is similar to a Bar Chart, but a histogram groupsnumbers into ranges And you decide what ranges to use!

Example: Dress Shop Survey

You asked customers who bought one of the "Aurora" range of skirts how old they were.

The ages were from 5 to 25 years old.

You decide to put the results into groups of 5:

• The 1 to 5 years old range,
• The 6 to 10 years old range,
• etc...

So when someone says "I am 17" you add 1 to the "16-20" range. And here is the result: You can see (for example) that there were 30 customers between 6 and 10 years old

Histograms are a great way to show results of continuous data, such as:

• weight
• height
• how much time
• etc.

But if your data is in categories (such as Country or Favorite Movie), then you should use a Bar Chart.

How to make a Histogram:

A Histogram Problem:

See you tomorrow!  We'll spend some time in class tomorrow going over the Histograms and finishing everything up, but please finish the test tonight so we just need to do a quick review and check over in class tomorrow!

-Miss K  :)