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 :-)

Adding & Subtracting Decimals and Estimating 8/22/11 to 8/26/11

SPI 0506.2.5 Solve addition and subtraction problems involving both fractions and decimals.

We will be adding & subtracting decimals this week as well as using our rounding, truncating skills to give approximate estimates


On TCAP, students will need to know how to add and subtract problems with decimals and fractions in the same problem as well as just decimals and just fractions.
 
Students will also need to estimate sums & differences for TCAP.

SPI 0506.1.2 Estimate fraction and decimal sums or differences

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Add & Subtract decimals and Order & Compare Decimals:8/23/10 to 8/27/10

This week we will be working on two SPI's and then we will test on Friday. Today we will add decimals, tomorrow subtract decimals, Wednesday order decimals, Thursday compare decimals, and test Friday.

This week's SPI's are:
5.2.5 Solve addition and subtraction problems involving both fractions and decimals.
Tips: The MOST important step is to LINE up the decimals and numbers to ensure proper adding and subtracting is going on! Don't forget to carry and borrow as needed!

5.2.9 Compare whole numbers, decimals and fractions using the symbols < (less than) , > (greater than), and =.
Tips: The MOST important step is to LINE up the decimals and numbers to ensure proper comparison between decimals. Children often want to say that since there are more numbers on the decimal side that it automatically makes it the decimal bigger. That is not the case with decimals.

Sample Problems:

Add Decimals
      1.592   
+ 22.173
   23.765

Subtract Decimals
  14.59
-10.03
    4.56


Ordering Numbers:

Greatest ---> Least  12.9, 12.7, 11.4, 10.2, 10.1, 9.0

Least --> Greatest 1.5, 1.52, 1.6, 2.3, 2.31, 3, 4.5

Comparing Numbers:

3.99999999999999 < 4
0.9999999 <1
9.97654 > 9.97653
0.4= 0.40


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