This Week in Math

Here is a quick look at our week in math. Next Monday, all math groups are celebrating the 100th Day of School! Have your child count and bring 100 items to school, such as paperclips, Q-tips, beans, coins, cotton balls, etc. Be as creative as you want, but please don't send anything edible.

Miss Watkins: We continued to work on estimating and counting. We did an activity called "Fill the Box," where students chose a box to fill with cubes and count. We then discussed the size of the box and how it determined if we would need few or many cubes.

Mrs. Watson: We started the week making combinations of 12 using addition and subtraction. They then wrote their own word problem that equalled 12. We finished the week by reading word problems and solving them using a variety of manipulatives.

Miss Riley: This week, we focused on word problems and key words to help decide whether the problem is addition or subtraction. Here is a great website to check out with your child.

Mrs. Johnson: Our group began a new study in data and statistics. We are looking at data collection, representation, and analysis. We discussed how to find the average (or mean) and the median to help analyze data. We hope you had fun participating in the homework this week - look for results of our study to be published next week.