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I especially like the "Printable Parent Books by Module" Enjoy! Second graders play a game with their peers finding combinations of ten within a string of numbers. This strategy will help them find sums quickly and easily.
As you are going through your daily life, see if you child can find combinations of ten to make adding easier! Your child will be taking several pre-tests during the first two weeks of school. We use these tests to make sure that we are holding ourselves accountable, to make sure that our students are learning, and to give us a baseline for the year.
Above, Brooke H. and several other Upper School students get comfy in office and beanbag chairs while taking their math pre-tests. PCA teachers have been hard at work preparing for our students. In the picture above, 4th and 5th grade teachers practice techniques to incorporate hands on manipulation into their lesson plans. Teamwork makes the dream work! Upper School students at 7:45 this morning! It is shaping up to be a fabulous year!
Lazy days at the beach of the pool, late nights eating popcorn in front of a movie with friends, seeing if it really is hot enough to fry an egg on the pavement...all of this and so much more...Enjoy your summer! (But as you do...throw a little math talk in there...just for fun!During RTI, students are developing a deep, conceptual understanding of numbers.
Upper School students Maia Washington and Leila Thomas Tirzah Bailey - working hard! Brooke Eller uses scratch paper to get the correct answer.Anaesia Wayman and Malachi White focus!Haiden Walmsley earns game time!Adah Qwepue types in her answer.
It's just past our 100th day at PCA! That means that it is time to check our progress to see how we are doing. Your child will be taking our universal screener, the Scholastic Math Inventory (SMI). It is an adaptive screener that seeks to track progress over time.
The first graders in the picture above are clicking to listen to problems being read to them (or reading the problems themselves if they choose). They then use scratch paper, mental math, or the picture on the screen to find an answer. In my classroom, students may choose to take the benchmark at a desk or in a bean bag chairs with a clipboard. They almost always choose the bag! :-) In the picture above, two students are playing a game where they race to uncover a whole strip. Using dice to determine which fraction of the strip to uncover, they make trades of equivalent fractions. Games like this are fun for the students, but also work to build conceptual understanding. They practice making equivalent fractions and truly understand that 1/8 is equivalent to 2/16 because the pieces take up the same space on the board. They "get it". Then when it comes time to do it on paper in math class, the algorithms make sense to them. Adapted from the Marilyn Burns fraction kit, this game is one way that PCA is helping our students build conceptual understanding of mathematical concepts.
A deep understanding of the ideas helps students build their sense of how numbers and can model the world around us. |
Mrs. SilcoxWelcome! I am the Math Specialist at Providence Creek Academy Archives
May 2018
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