More blocks. This time with 45% more work with percents and probability! Math Lab with the upper graders usually takes 2 math periods a week (with accelerated old-school book and paper work the other two days). This means we have more time to go greater in depth. Day 1 was pretty fun and included some jumping cheers when predictions were correct. I have some great pictures of the excitement, but we always ask for parents' permission to publish images of their children. Today they were told EVERYbody gets their writing on the blog, and I saw a huge improvement in length of writing and inclusion of some math thoughts. They have a real audience!
Solution: 5 tan, 2 blue, 3 yellow
Tomorrow we'll graph the results on a bar graph and learn how to convert percents to degrees to make an accurate pie chart using the real ratio.
I *LOVE* the "I was right cuz I'm awesome" comment. These kids are pretty awesome :)
ReplyDeleteI also love that the one kept to his/her methodology, even though it turned out everyone else was correct and he/she was not. Kudos - that's a hard to do...but can be so very important (and not just in math). :)