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Monday December 9

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Mental Math Monday was knowing the basic facts of multiplication. There are some students who would benefit from practicing their facts so they are more confident. After this the class were given the opportunity to help make the season a little more cheerful for some of the less fortunate. The class jumped at the opportunity to do some good! We are going to bake cookies for an organization called the The Alex. This organization supports youth at risk. We also just found out that a retirement home complex in the area would love some cookies, so we will give them some as well. After this decision was made we looked at the recipe for thumbprint cookies and did some math around figuring out how much of each ingredient would be needed to make 6 times the single batch. Below, you will find a chart of how much of everything we need. Students were quick to say that they would like to help bring in the materials needed. The names are given for those who thought they could supply ing...
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Thursday December 12

Our Thinking Thursday problems were solving for an unknown value in an equation with both sides of the balance having two addends. Most students are successful with solving these kinds of questions now and they are "becoming easier". After this work we began mixing our ingredients to make our cookie batter. This process took most of the morning. Mixing the butter and sugar was the toughest part because the butter was a little hard. Once it warmed up and got squished it became easier to mix. Before lunch each table group created their cookie balls and added their thumbprints to make heart shapes. After lunch the students listened to 6 minutes and then worked on figuring out how much each batch of cookies cost. The groups were given the cost of either a 1/4 cup or 1/2 cup of ingredient then had to do some calculations to find out how much the recipe cost. In some cases the ingredient amount given with a cost was not the exact amount the recipe called for. For example, a 1/4 c...
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Monday December 16

Mental math this morning was solving for an unknown in an equation that had addition on one side and multiplication on the other. Ex: 21 + 15 = N x 9. Solving for the side that is solvable is the first step and then solving for the unknown. After this we worked on optical art using patterns and a 100 grid. The students were shown some examples of optical art that gives an illusion and then they had time to create their own art illusion. Getting the art to look like it was curving or making a hole was a challenge for some. Sticking to an alternating pattern of black and white geometric shapes and using a ruler for straight lines really helped with any design. Making the illusion of curving required changing the size of the shapes to get it to look like it was getting closer or going further away. Some questions about the design using math reasons followed the creation.  After time was up for working on this, those that needed to print their story did that and then the class was gi...
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