

Thursday, September 18th: Math Poster Rough Draft and Evidence-Warrant Sentences
Today we began making educational posters on topics in math. Some are making these posters about Prime Factorization and others are...


Wednesday, September 17th: Factoring, Exponents, and Case File Revisions
After a brief hiatus from homework in honor of standardized testing, students are bringing home a bit of work tonight that varies from...


Thursday, September 11: SMART=WORK, CSI: The Nose Knows
Today, students reviewed the Elements of Good Group Work that we started collecting yesterday during our group challenges. Students then...
Wednesday, September 10th: CSI Case File: BADD, No Math Homework
Tonight's homework is to finish collecting observations and inferences about the most recent CSI Case File: BADD: Burton Against Dead...


Tuesday, September 9th: Math Kangaroo Part 2 & CSI: Gamer Over
Today we finished up the diagnostic tests on arithmetic skills and students took home a packet of challenging puzzles that start to...


Monday, September 8th: Kangaroo Math and Observations/Inferences
Today the students reviewed the words "Grit", "strategies", and "resource" to remind them of the problem solving lessons we did last week....


Thursday, September 3rd: Scales Problems
Tonight's homework: Complete as much as you can of the three-page packet titled, "Scales Problems". The problem solving strategies used...