Tuesday, October 21: Cat Food, "Choose an Number" Equivalent Practice, GCF as a Reducing Strategy

Today in Math, students began all together finding how many pizzas it would take to feed the entire Period 1 Math class if each student needed only 2/3 of a personal pan pizza. After sharing and discussing the many ways to solve this puzzle, we split into groups. Those who learned about equivalent fractions yesterday reviewed with a video and practiced a set of problems. There homework is practice making equivalent fractions by multiplying the top and bottom by the same number. Those learning how to simplify fractions participated in a convoluted grouping activity that had them sorting different colors of squares. After much shennanigans, they watched a video and had a little time to practice. Their homework is practice using GCF as an aid to reducing fractions. The group that understands both concepts discussed their answers to a problem in which they help "Jake" plan and build a dog house. This group defended their answers, listened to other points of view, and came away tired but stronger for the process :) Their homework is to continue working on their new problem, entirely new and different from the last one: it's about cat food.

In Science, Period 5 analyzed evidence from their crime scene search yesterday and began preparing a statement for the prosecutor. They used pictures, sketches, and written observations by yesterday's search team. Period 2 got to search the scene today, and will begin writing up the statement tomorrow.