commutative property

Math Properties

The D Property - A song about the Distributive Property

Basic Number Properties Rap

5 - Commutative & Associative Properties of Addition

DIGITS Pep Talk

Well, we have now made the complete switch from the traditional classroom textbook to our new math curriculum, Digits.  Digits is a web-based math program complete with interactive lessons, math manipulatives, intervention lessons and homework assignments.

This program is going to be a positive influence in your ability to understand and utilize math in ways beyond basic computation (3 x 4).  I think you have already noticed the amount of reading and problem solving involved in this new math program, right?  It is a lot, but it is going to be well worth it down the road.  You may not feel that way right NOW, but everything has a learning curve.  Meaning, at first many new things are hard to adjust too.  This is one of them for you and for me, but I already notice an improvement in your basic number sense.

Anyway, we will keep working and it WILL be HARDER than any math you have done before.  Just think of how much smarter you will be in May than you would have been otherwise.  What is that saying?  Oh yes, "NO PAIN, NO GAIN."

DIGITS!!!  Remember, Digits will only run on Internet Explorer and Safari.  When in doubt, take home the paper copy I offer to you.

Mrs. S

Order of Operations - Brief Introduction

Click Here to view a Brief Introduction to Order of Operations and my expectations of how the steps should look!

Calculating Slope - Watch after the "cartoon like" videos for Review

Slope Dude

Mr Bill Discovers Slope

RIP Nellie Jean 4/1/08 - 11/4/11

Dividing Mixed Numbers - The Improved Version

Dividing Fractions and using a Reciprocal

Multiplying Mixed Numbers

Multiplying Fractions with CANCELING

2-Step Equation with Mult and Add (cmdn007)

Fraction borrowing with subtraction

Borrowing Fractions with Unlike Denominators

Multiplying and Dividing Integers - Class Lesson

TGIF - ENOUGH SAID!

Get outside and burn off some energy this weekend.  Come back Monday ready to Rock -N- Roll.  Homeroom door decorating contest for Drug Free Week.  What will our theme be?  Can we continue to keep ahead of Knebel's team in IXL?  I think so!  Work those math problems people we like to win!

Integer Unit Videos for All Math Classes

Absolute Value Tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncj1Xoh_-mo&list=FLs4ORi_IwIbjgpc3vooQvIA&index=38

Comparing Integers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKVWLODLuUs

Adding Integers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_c5J8xHPYo&feature=related

Subtracting Integers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfUIDjLV9Vw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqkrOTaBp8&feature=related

Multiplying and Dividing Integers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xKG0E-QwhI

Integer Songs
Rap http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOLfvdEv0yM&feature=related
Row Row Your Boat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIqqDrGmqSY&feature=relmfu

Blocks One and Two - Try This!!!

http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/decimals/solve_word_problems.html
Read through the problems and the correct answers.

Then,  go to the bottom and complete those problems.

Block Three - Try This!!!

http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/vol5/compare_order.html

Read through the page.
Then, try the problems at the bottom.

The last thing you should do is go ALL the way to the bottom and click on the ABSOLUTE VALUE lesson.  Read, then try those problems. 

Raise your hands if you have questions.  I will float around the room assisting and clarifying as needed.

Decimal to Fraction - In Class Introduction

Decimals to Fractions Song

Friday Vs Monday

Quick Simplifying Fractions and Equivalent Fractions Class Warm-Up

Prime Numbers and Prime Factorization - 6th Grade

Divisibility Rules

Advanced Math Lesson 7-7 Video to watch today with the Substitute

Mr. Duey - Fractions (Review how to change a fraction to a decimal to a %)

Dividing a Decimal by a Decimal Cheer - Block 3

Dividing Decimals by a Whole Number Song - Block One

A Song from My High School Years to Help You Remember to Place the Decimal in the Quotient when Dividing

Regular Math - Multiplying Decimals Song (Block 2)

Regular Math - Introduction to Dividing Decimals by a Whole Number

Long Division by Mr. Duey

Advanced Math Fraction Review for Quiz Today

Hey guys, watch this video today right before you take the quiz.

Don't forget to place all of your answers in SIMPLEST FORM!!!  When you are comparing ratios you would leave them improper, but this is a basic fraction concept quiz and any improper fraction must be made into a mixed number.

Good luck!

You have a Substitute Teacher Today. Here is what needs to be done!!!

PLEASE watch/listen to this video today as you grade last night's homework.

Shopping for Nellie (adding decimals intro)

BLUEBERRY!!!

Well, here is my list of activities for the weekend:

Eat Walleye
Eat Roasted Almonds
Eat BB Donut Holes
Eat Crab Rangoons
Watch other people eat Turkey Legs and be glad I wasn't a cave women.
Buy stuff I don't need because I found it at the BLUEBERRY!
Walk around the BLUEBERRY!
Maybe hit the parade.
Let Colton go on the rides and play baseball.

What is on your agenda?

Comparing Decimals Introduction on Screen Chomp

http://www.screenchomp.com/t/Cr2j8I50RVdN

The trick to comparing decimals is to STACK THEM ON TOP OF EACH OTHER.  LINE UP THE DECIMALS to keep all of the digits in order based on their value.  Then you compare each digit, one place at a time (like you would for ABC order!).

Now, if you are a sloppy writer, unlike me who has beautiful writing (quit laughing) you can take your lined notebook paper and turn it on its side. Use the blue lines to keep your place values all lined up.

Screen Chomp Place Value Review

Place Value Review - Screen Chomp


Watch before we complete the practice over yesterday's lesson.

What you need to know RIGHT NOW!

Riverside's Open House is this Thursday from 6:30 - 7:30.  The Stars Team Teachers will be kicking off the evening with a brief meeting with all parents in Mrs. Sharp's room.  At the end of the informational meeting we invite you to move around to all of the classrooms and meet your child's teacher.

Riverside Picture Day is this Friday beginning at 8:30 a.m.  Picture packets went home today in Monday Folders.

Students are beginning to get homework.  Please ask your child to see what he/she has been working on in class.

Mrs. S

The race is on to increase the followers....

Students checking in for the 2011/2012 school year are encouraged to become a "follower" of the blog and earn 3 extra credit points.  You might also like to tag it as a favorite or add to your bar for easier access.  Soon my room will be wired for sound which will allow me to video lessons and upload them to the blog.  Students would be able to review the lesson if they needed extra help or were absent.  That is very exciting and will dramatically improve the quality of the video that you will currently find on the blog.

REMEMBER, the more followers I get the more consistent I intend to be with my lessons and updates.  This is a site for you, the student.  I also hope to add a weekly student news feature to the blog to keep you updated on the team happenings.

Mrs.  S

Contractor Video - 4 Determing Materials Needed DOG HOUSE

Contractor Video - 3 Roof Pitch DOG HOUSE

16" on Center - Video 2 DOG HOUSE

Contractor Introduction - Video 1 DOG HOUSE

Mrs Sharp's Cookie Lab

YES! YES! YES!

Can anyone say, "Spring Break?"  One week to go, let's all hang in there.  WE CAN DO IT!

Composite Areas

Distributive property

Commutative, Distributive, Associative, Identity

Basic Number Properties Rap

The Great Butter Mistake

Mr. Richard and The Distributive Property

Who ya gonna call? Science test busters....

Are you prepared to take down the LA portion of ISTEP today? Sure you are!

Let's See Who is Reading the Blog.....

The first Blogger that stops by my room and says, "Got Chocolate?" is going to get a prize.

Gualdina got the prize!  Thanks for checking out the Blog. 
You ROCK! (3/3/11)

Math and LA ISTEP Test Taking Tips March 1, 2011

Area Do Now - Feb. 24th

Advanced Math Pythagorean Theorem Practice

Ordering Decimals - Do Now Review Feb. 23rd

Ordering Decimals Review - Do Now Activity on Feb. 23rd

Pythagorean Theorem - Advanced Math Partial Lesson

Introduction to the Do Now for Feb. 22 Measures of Central Tendancy

Do Now Feb. 22nd : Review of the Measures of Central Tendancy

Advanced Math - Estimating Square Roots

Coordinate System - Part of the lesson from class

Coordinate System (Cartesian Plane)

The Cartesian Plane

Subtracting Integers

Integer row row row your boat song

Adding Integers Lesson 8-2

Block Three - Singing and Dancing

Block One - Singing and Dancing

Class Notes on Order of Operations 1-5

For those of you who are absent these notes go along with Friday's worksheet. Follow along and work these out as we go...sorry, no sound yet. PEMDAS (Parenthesis 1st, Exponents 2nd, Multiply and Divide in order from L-R, Add and Subtract in order from L-R.)

Order of Operations, ations, ations, ations.....

Block Two Performing....Hey, Mr. Knebel's class beat this!