Math Topic 21

Math Topic 21 Money and Time

Testing Date: Wednesday April 18th

Students will learn the following items during this math topic:

1. How to compare prices of items


2. Determine Profit or Loss


3. Explore mailing costs


4. Work with hours and minutes


5. Work with seconds

How can you help at home?

Your next trip to the grocery store could be a valuable tool to aid in your students math understanding!

Have a discussion over sale items and profit or loss! Your child should be able to provide an explanation!

online helps:

http://www.math-vista.com/Profit-and-Loss-B.html

http://www.teacherschoice.com.au/Maths_Library/Money/profit_and_loss.htm

http://www.math-vista.com/Profit-and-Loss-D.html

We will be visiting Walcott Intermediate School on April 12th from 9:30-12:00

Your student will:

• Tour the school


• Visit with current 6th grade student


• Visit current 6th grade classrooms


• Shadow a 6th grade student

We will return to school around 12:30 and eat lunch here

Junior Achievement Trip

Grade 5 will be going to Junior Achievement Biz-Town On February 28th. We have been working hard to teach students economics! Please help at home by assisting your student in writing checks!

• Have your child fill out a check for you!


• Have your child practice his or her signature


• Have your child sit with you when paying bills: teaches your student the reality of their Biz-Town experience!

Reading Week of February 20th-24th

This week we are reading "Trickster Tales"

Skill of the week Author's Purpose

Vocabulary This Week:

1. riverbank


2. wares


3. treasurer


4. merchandise


5. educate


6. burdens


7. appreciation


8. unfortunate

Working with Analogies: Analogies help you see the relationship between words. If you know the relationship between one pair of words, you can figure out the meaning of an unfamilar word in the second pair of words. For example, happy is to mournful as fortunate is to unfortunate.

Reading "Anansi and Common Sense" A Stage Play By: Trey Reeves

"The Catch Of The Day" A Trickster Play, written by: Angela Shelf Medearis Illustrated by: Wendy Born Hollnader

Websites:

http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/tricksters/

http://www.takomapark.info/library/children/archives/000340.html

http://activities.macmillanmh.com/reading/treasures/stories/story_lessonlist/51040148.html

Grade 5 Math Formulas for Topic 17 Math

I Do:

Students use I Do when completing problems individually.

For Topic 17 (Area of a parallelogram, circle, triangle) we used several Formulas:

Area of a triangle A= (bxh) divided by 2
Area of a circle Use PIr2 3.14 x (rxr) *Students must remember to multiply not add radius!

Area of a parallelogram (bxh) You must cut and shape into a rectangle!