CRCT Wednesday: Math

Tomorrow is the Math CRCT. Fifth graders must pass reading and math (along with their school work) to be promoted to 6th grade.

Please get a good night's sleep the night before and be sure to eat a good breakfast. Also, please bring two #2 sharpened pencils. Thanks!

The Great Graph Project

DUE: February 11, 2011

You are going to choose a topic that interests you, collect data, and present your information on a graph. You might conduct a survey or record scientific evidence. For your final project, you will create a poster (or mini poster) that includes your graph and interpretations of your data (see below).

1. What is your topic? _______________________________________________________

2. How will you gather you data? (You will turn in a neat copy of your data, but this does not have to be presented on your final project.)

_________________________________________________________________________

3. What type of graph will best display your data?

_________________________________________________________________________

For your final project, you will create a graph of your data. Be sure to follow correct graphing procedures (title, labels, appropriate scale and intervals, etc.) and make your graph legible. Write a summary sentence of your data and any trends you found. For example, if your graph is a survey of favorite music, your summary sentence might be, “Most students in our class prefer country music.”

Also include the range of your data, the mean (average), the median, and the mode labeled on your final project. Remember to turn in a neat copy of the data you collected.

If you’d like to make a graph on a computer and print it out, search for instructions to use Excel to make a graph, or consider using the following website to make your graph:

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx

Try It: Interpreting Data

Click HERE to give it a try!

More Brainpop in Computer Lab

Math- Numbers and Operations- Prime Numbers
"- " - Factoring
"- " - Exponents
"- "- Order of Operations

Multiplying Decimals Vide

Some of us are still having difficulty multiplying decimals. Check out a video by CLICKING HERE!

Math Practice Website

Go check out thatquiz.org to take practice tests to work on your speed with basic facts. (This website offers other quizzes, but we haven't had time to check them out yet.) Let us know what you think!

Multiplication Rock: I Got Six

Maybe this Schoolhouse Rock Multiplication Rock video will help you study for Friday's speed test! Click HERE.

Geometry Websites

(This is a re-post with two more websites added. You have to be QUICK for the last one!)

Here are some helpful geometry websites:

http://www.onlinemathlearning.com/basic-geometry.html

Measuring Angles using a Protractor

Types of Angles

Types of Triangles

Quadrilaterals

Polygons

Circles

Geometric Properties

The BBC Shapes

BBC Shapes Interactive Game

The Ruler Game

Click to go try The Ruler Game!

We recommend that you start out with the whole (inches) level, then move up to halves, then up to quarters, etc. If you don't already know how to read a ruler to the sixteenths, don't start at that level! You have to be quick!

Brain Pop Geometry Lessons

{Bumping to the top to help us in computer lab Wed.}

Brainpop.com has an entire section devoted to geometry! Here is a list of recommended movies to watch and quizzes to take. We do want you to PRINT your quiz results and turn in. Thanks!

Log in to Brainpop.com using unionco and panthers. Click on Math and then click on Geometry & Measurement. Then choose from the following titles:
*Angles
*Circles
*Parallel and Perpendicular Lines
*Polygons
*Similar Figures
*Types of Triangles
*Transformation

Geometry GPS

Students should know and understand the following basic geometry terms:
point (Lesson 6-1)
line
segment
ray
parallel, perpendicular, and intersecting lines
angle (Lesson 6-2)
congruent (Lesson 6-9)
similar
symmetry (Lesson 6-11)
transformations: flips, turns, slides (Lesson 6-10)

types of triangles (Lesson 6-5)

parts of a polygon: edge, face, vertex (plural vertices) (Lesson 6-4)

parts of a circle: center, radius (plural radii), diameter, chord, arc, circumference (Lesson 6-3)

Students should be able to measure angles. (Lesson 6-2)

Knowing these basic facts will allow students to master the 5th grade Georgia Performance Standards (GPS):
M5G1: Students will understand congruence of geometric figures and the correspondence of their vertices, sides, and angles.
M5G2: Students will understand the relationship of the circumference of a circle and its diameter is pi (3.14).

Math Factor and Product Game

Try this one too!

http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=29

Math Factor Game

Check out this fun game!

http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=12

11/19

We tried persimmons for today's fresh fruit snack! They received mixed reviews.

We also went over this month's historical fiction genre project. Students are to create a "time travel brochure" and they each received a handout explaining the requirements. Their genre brochure is due no later than Monday, 11/30. Unfortunately that is the Monday following the Thanksgiving holiday, so we encourage you to turn them in early!

Study for spelling & vocab. tests tomorrow. Finish 3x each if you had to write them.
Complete the "Gobble Squabble" prefix/suffix fun sheet.

The back side, "Turkey Trouble," is an extra credit math assignment due tomorrow.

Math & Science Extra Credit

When progress reports go home (tomorrow) we sometimes have parents and students asking about extra credit. Extra credit is generally available until the week before the end of the term. We do ask that students do their REGULAR work before they ask for EXTRA work. Before beginning extra credit, be sure to get approval from one of us so that your hard work is not in vain.

One project that we talked about today is called "Design an Airplane" on p. 30 of the science book. This project uses both science and math skills, so this one project could earn extra credit in both science and math. Check it out!

Have a great spring break!

We hope that all of you have a safe and fun spring break! We are encouraging each student to take home some AM to work on. Please study basic math facts and formulas in preparation for the CRCT (4/20-24). Please also try to finish your AR book and be ready to test when we return. (We are trying to bring our yearly class average up to an 85.)

Math Websites

Let us know what you think of these math sites by leaving us a comment! Do you have any favorites we should include?

www.illuminations.nctm.org

www.funbrain.com

www.coolmath4kids.com

www.awesomelibrary.org

www.multiplication.com

http://investigations.terc.edu/

www.nces.ed.gov/nceskids.createagraph

www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/maths/dictionary.html

Multiplication Website to Try

Check out a (new-to-us) website to help with multiplication facts: multiplication.com! Please let us know what you think of this site.