math 5 Updates
When we return from break your 5th grader is finishing up March Madness statistics. They are researching their favorite teams and players. This project supports our understanding of fractions, percents and decimals. We will be interpreting information from and creating our own graphs, tables, and charts. Some vocabulary will include x axis, y axis, mean, median, mode and frequency. You can help at home by asking your learner to explain what they are learning using academic language.
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5th grade is enjoying learning about March Madness. We are charting two brackets of teams, one for our own predictions and one to show the actual results of the basketball games. At the end of each round of games we will update our brackets and share our strategies. This relates to fractions and decimals as we will be noting what fraction of the playing teams made it on to the next round. We will then convert those fractions to decimals through division. In between the March Madness games, learners will practice converting fractions to decimals. This takes us back to Place Value, as we will focus on converting fractions into tenths and hundredths.
5th grade will take a little break from fractions to take part in March Madness. Learners will research basketball teams, create their own bracket, track their team’s wins and losses, and analyze the data generated. This will lead us into a study of decimals. We will apply what we already know about fractions as division and transfer this background knowledge to performing operations with decimals. This real life problem solving will engage learners and offer many opportunities to interpret graphs and other visual representations of information.
5th Graders continue exploring multiplying and dividing fractions. We went back to review least common multiples, reducing fractions, and the steps for adding fractions as students often mistake the steps for adding and multiplying fractions. We will continue to review these concepts as we move forward. We are encouraging 5th graders to draw pictorial models when multiplying and dividing fractions.
We will also talk about the upcoming March Madness Basketball Bracket. How exciting! Fraction Visual Models |
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