Week of Feb. 23

With last week's quiz, we are finishing up introductory (but crucial) fraction concepts as well as addition/subtraction. However, there is one type of problem I purposely left out of our quiz because I think it deserves its own special examination. We started the idea of regrouping when subtracting mixed numbers last Friday and we are continuing this week. On Wednesday we will have a mini quiz - well, let's don't call it a quiz, it's just a check on regrouping using notes -just on this one topic.
To finish out the quarter, we will leave fraction land for a while while we explore decimal multiplication and division. The great thing is that these concepts connect perfectly with the metric measurement unit in science! If things go according to plan, we will be able to finish decimal multiplication by the end of the quarter, and division by spring break. Stay tuned, though, because things rarely proceed according to plan...