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