Revamping

It's been awhile. It's been a busy year. Sorry been MIA! I found out in early October I was expecting my third child so it has been super busy with that and school. I am planning on revamping the site to be seperated into categories based on Common Core Standards so be looking for that in the next few months.

 For now, enjoy the site :) Sorry in advance for any broken links!
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Mathbook Bulletin Board

My 5th graders have been working so hard for me so I wanted  them to show off what they were learning. I decided I wanted my bulletin board in the hallway to put to good regular use. I've never known exactly what to do with it. I decided to make a play on the Facebook bulletin boards I've seen on Pinterest.

How did I do it?
I made a "Mathbook" bulletin board. I used poster board and hand drew the symbols in black sharpie. Then I used regular copy paper to cut out the letters trying to match a facebook-ish font. Then I took card stock and cut them at 8 1/2 inches a piece. I had some volunteers cut and laminate them for me. (Thank you BB volunteers!!) I also copied the Facebook Like symbol with the word Like next to it on blue paper. These were also laminated.

How exactly do I use it?
Students can pick a new spot every week. I figured this would be better than assigning a spot. That way every student dependent on their height preference could pick a spot on the board. Students write down what they learned that week, show an example problem, brag about their test score, and etc. If I like what they say then I use a "Like button" simply by stapling it with one staple. It's easy to take off the next week. Students use the card stocks to write on with black dry erase markers. I have found color doesn't erase as well. Then students can erase a card and rewrite it on the next week after their test. It's a great way to show off what we did that week as well as an awesome use for an exit slip.

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Compare Decimals and/or Fractions 9-17-12 to 9-27-12

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Division Word Problems: 9-10-12 to 9-14-12

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Division: 1 & 2 digit divisors with 2 & 3 digit dividends: 9-4-12 to 9-14-12

Playing catchup. In the future I will have tips here, for now..you will know what skill we are practicing and for how long. I also hope to be converting my list into categorizing it by common core standards. Common core standards will not completely be implemented for 5th Grade Math in Tennessee until the 2014-2015 school year so it will be a work in progress. Thanks for your understanding! In the mean time, enjoy the categories by the nine weeks we study them in.

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Add & Subtract & Estimate Decimal Sums & Differences: 8-27-12 to 8-31-12

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Place Value: 8-13-12 to 8-24-12

This week we will be working on place value. Students will learn how to read and write whole numbers up to the hundred millions (100,000,000) and decimal numbers as small as the millionths (0.000001). They will also be learning to recognize place value in a variety of contexts.

Sample Problems:

1. Q. How do you write ten million, one hundred twenty thousand, thirty in standard form? A. 10,120,030
2. Q. How do you write 987,002,620 in written form? nine hundred eighty seven million, two thousand, six hundred twenty A.
3. Q. How to you write two hundred twenty four thousandths in standard form? A. 0.224
4. Q. How do you write 0.000009 in written form? A. nine millionths

Please go to links for 1st Nine Weeks to find games and worksheets to help with this week's lesson/skills! Or here is a direct link for you!
Click for Games & Help On This SPI Lesson!

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Welcome new 2012-2013 5th Graders!

Welcome new 5th graders! I so look forward to getting to know each and every one of you. I hope you are ready to begin your mathematical learning journey this school year. It will have its bumps, but please know I will always be here for questions. I hope this site is a help to you as the school year begins. I had a lot of fun making it for you. Please take a look around! Leave comments :D

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TCAP Prep: FINAL WEEK 5: 4-16-12 to 4-20-12

This week we will be reviewing for T.C.A.P. 

Our main focus will be on ALL of the 5th Grade Report Card Skills and to take another practice test to see if the review has helped improve our learning.

Our tentative schedule looks a little like this:
Monday: TCAP PRACTICE Post-Test Part 1 47 minutes (1-35 questions)
Tuesday: TCAP PRACTICE Post-Test Part 2--46 minutes (36-69 questions)
Wednesday: Go over practice post-test
Thursday:  Go over practice post-test
Friday:  Go over practice post-test


THE MATH TCAP WILL BE NEXT TUESDAY!!! STUDY HARD!!! YOU CAN DO THIS!!

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TCAP Prep: Week 4: 4-10-12 to 4-13-12

This week we will be reviewing for T.C.A.P. 

Our main focus will be on the 3rd 9 Weeks Report Card Skills.

Our tentative schedule looks a little like this:

Monday: EASTER BREAK!
Tuesday:  Linear Measurement/Coordinate Grid
Wednesday: Area Triangles, Rectangles, Parallelograms, Squares; Irregular Area/Perimeter
Thursday: Surface Area/Volume
Friday:  2D/3D Properties & Nets; Depict & Predict Various Data Representation; Mean/Median/Mode/Range
 

TCAP Prep: Week 3: 4-2-12 to 4-6-12

This week we will be reviewing for T.C.A.P. 

Our main focus will be on the 2nd 9 Weeks Report Card Skills.

Our tentative schedule looks a little like this:


Monday: Add/Subtract Fractions & mixed numbers; Estimate/Round Fractions; Compare Fractions; Recognize equivalent representations for same number; Convert Fraction <--> Decimal
Tuesday:  Order Of Operations: Numerical & Algebraic
Wednesday: Single Step Equations
Thursday:  Make Inequalities True Statements
Friday: EASTER BREAK





Signing off, Mrs. Burger :-)
Signing off, Mrs. Burger :-)

TCAP Prep: Week 2: 3-19-12 to 3-23-12

This week we will be reviewing for T.C.A.P. 

Our main focus will be on the 1st 9 Weeks Report Card Skills.

Our tentative schedule looks a little like this:

Monday: Place Value millions to millionths(Standard form, word form, exponential notation)
Tuesday: Add/Subtract Decimals/Fractions, Compare Decimals/Fractions, Order Decimals/Fractions Least to Greatest, Round/Estimate Decimals/Fractions
Wednesday:Division Word Problems: Selects reasonable solutions when considering remainders; Recognize the unit for remainder/left overs; Divide 2 & 3 digit dividends with 1 & 2 digit divisors; Identify missing and/or too much information 
Thursday: Prime Factorization
Friday: Jeopardy Math Game/Centers/Stations



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TCAP Prep: Week 1: 3-12-12 to 3-16-12

This week we will be reviewing for T.C.A.P. 

Our main focus will be on the TCAP Practice Pre-Test to see what areas we need to focus on in the upcoming weeks.

Our tentative schedule looks a little like this:

Monday: Part 1: Practice test: 47 minutes
Tuesday: Part 2: Practice test: 46 minutes
Wednesday: Review Part 1 Answers
Thursday: Finish reviewing part 1 answers & start part 2
Friday: Finish reviewing part 2 answers




Signing off, Mrs. Burger :-)

Measures of central tendency: Mean, Median, Mode, Range 3-5-12 to 3-9-12

This week we will be working with calculating the measures of central tendency to analyze data which includes: Mean, Median, Mode, and Range.

Enjoy this free game from BBC!
BBC Mean Median Mode Range Game 


Our test will be Friday! This is our last NEW skill of the year! 

Quiz your kids by these key words!
Mean-->Average
Median-->Middle
Mode-->Most
Range-->High-Low

****You can also take a deck of cards to practice your mean, median, mode, and range. This is a great way to practice a variety of numbers without a worksheet! Jokers count as wild kids pick number. Face cards are 10. Ace can be 1 or 11. ****

Next week, begins our 5th Grade math review for the TCAP!!

Some of the sites we will be using to go along with our lessons include some more from Study Zone

Take a look at some of these great resources!

Math Playground Central Tendency Lesson Video

http://www.mathplayground.com/howto_mode.html

Find the Mode Activity

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/match/matchgeneric.asp?filename=ccarrollmode

6^th Grade Mean

http://www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/math8/e/mean6l.cfm

6^th Grade Median & Mode

http://www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/math8/e/medianmode6l.cfm

6^th Grade Finding the Mean, Median, Mode

http://www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/math8/e/meanmedmode6l.cfm

6^th Grade Range & Mean

http://www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/math8/e/rangemean6l.cfm

7^th Grade Range Lesson

http://www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/math8/a/range7l.cfm

7^th Grade Finding the mean, median, mode quiz

http://www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/math8/g/meanmedmodquiz.cfm

7^th Grade Measures of Central Tendency Lesson

http://www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/math8/a/central_tendency7l.cfm

7^th Grade Interpreting Graphs (central tendency)

http://www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/math8/a/interpretinggraphs7l.cfm

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Depict + Predict Various Data Representations: tables, charts, bar graphs, histographs, etc 2-27-12 to 3-2-12

TN 5th Grade SPIS


5.5.1 Depict data using various representations, including decimal and/or fractional data.
5.5.2  Make predictions based on various data representations, including double bar and line graphs. 

 The first SPI (represent data) will basically show students a table of information they then have to choose which graph fits the data from the table including data with fractions and decimals.Sometimes they will have graph where they will have to match to a table.  The second SPI (make predictions) is exactly as it sounds. Students will be given various visual/pictorial/data representations including double bar and line graphs. They will have to use the data they know to figure out and predict what will/could possibly happen.

P.S. (I will be linking to common core standards soon!)


This week we have been working on depicting and predicting graphs. Some great websites we have been using are some I found off Study Zone.


 Here are some of the links we have used in our lessons.

Graphing Lesson

3^rd grade Reading Bar Graphs + Practice

http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/math4/e/readinggraphs3l.cfm

6^th Grade Bar Graph

http://www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/math8/e/bargraph6l.cfm

Elementary Bar Graphs

http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/math4/k/bargraphsl.cfm

4^th Grade Predictions from Graphs

http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/math4/d/changeovertime4l.cfm

5^th Grade Making Predictions from Graphs

http://www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/math8/d/predl.cfm

5^th Grade Line Graph 1 & 2

http://www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/math8/f/linegraph5l.cfm

http://www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/math8/f/linegra5l.cfm

5^th Grade Collect & Record Data 1 & 2

http://www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/math8/d/datal.cfm

http://www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/math8/d/datatr.cfm

6^th Grade Circle Graph 1 & 2

www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/math8/e/circgraph6l.cfm

http://www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/math8/c/circlel.cfm

6^th Grade Pictograph

http://www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/math8/e/pictograph6l.cfm

6^th Grade Histogram

http://www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/math8/e/histograms6l.cfm

6^th Grade Stem/Leaf

http://www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/math8/e/stemandleaf6l.cfm

6^th Grade Graph Data

http://www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/math8/e/graphdata6l.cfm

Saxon Math Depict Graph Practice

http://www.haelmedia.com/html/mc_m65_004.html

BBC Data Picking

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/shockwave/games/datapick.html

Beacon Learning Center Graphing Lesson

http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/WebLessons/HowItAllStacksUp/default.htm#page3

BBC Frequency Diagrams Dick & Dom

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/data/frequency_diagrams/play.shtml

TV 411 Reading Graph Quiz

http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=10&act=2&que=1

Wisc Online Interactive Lesson

http://www.wisc-online.com/Objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=abm3802

NCES Create a Graph Kid Zone EXCELLENT!

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx?ID=bcdafd60c63c4dae89ebe81a506e9e85

NEXT WEEK, 
we will be working with mean, median, mode, and range!This is our very last "new" SPI! After that, it's time to buckle up and get ready for the review ride!

 Signing off, Mrs. Burger :-)

Surface Area + Volume 2-21-12 to 2-24-12

So I am thinking of revamping the blog. I have been out of practice when posting the SPIs and information. I'd like to get back into that habit, but also I have been making lots of resources for my math class these past three years, and my initial intention was to always share them for students and teachers alike. Due to many other obligations, that never came to fruition. So I will be figuring out a way to upload files to this blog. Look for things like flashcards to print, games to print, activities to print, and flipcharts to use (teachers) 


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This week we will be working on Surface & Volume.

Surface Area (for rectangular prisms) has a sometimes complicated formula for elementary kids to remember. It looks a little like this.


Surface Area = [(LxW)+(LxH)+(WxH)]x2


It makes it out to be a lot more complicated than it needs to be. I had another teacher tell me at some point about the Y method. The Y method is a fantastic way to teach Surface Area. 


Here are my general steps I tell my students.


First: LABEL, Surface Area. (I do this so that hopefully they will remember how to do this method much further in the future for TCAP :))

Second: Then students are usually either given the Length, Width, and Height or even better--I let them choose three numbers. Then they choose their own unit (cm, in, ft, yd, etc.)

L: 4 ft
W: 5 ft
H:  2 ft

Third: They then draw a Y. On each corner of the Y goes their numbers they created or were assigned. 

Fourth:  They then multiple each of the two corners to create three new numbers. (Notice the underlined red.)

Fifth:  They take each of those three numbers and find its sum, and then double it.

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Volume

The formula for Volume isn't so bad. Most people still remember this formula. 

Volume=Length x Width x Height 

I make sure my students write the formula first. Then students "plug" in the values for L, W, and H. 

 

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Irregular Area + Perimeter 2-6-12 to 2-15-12

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Area & Pereimeter: Triangles, Parallelograms, Rectangles, Squares 1-26-12 to 2-3-12

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Geometric Figures: 2D/3D/Nets 1-17-12 to 1-25-12

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Linear Measurement + Coordinate Grid 1-5-12 to 1-13-12

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