Weeks 7 - 10, February 18 - March 15, field experience
Weeks 11 & 12, March 25 - April 3
Topic Dates Resources Pattern tiles and incommensurability (can't use orange
squares and white rhombuses in designs made only by the
other shapes) 1/7 1/9 Text, section 1.4. Class activity 1J. Factors and multiples - relationship to rectangles 1/9 Text, section 1.1. Class activities 1A, 1B, 1C Greatest common factor GCF and least common multiple LCM.
Seeing these concepts in story problems and snap cubes. 1/14 Text and class activities, section 1.3 Fraction multiplication 1/16 Excerpts of article by Nancy K. Mack Solving and writing problems 1/23, 1/28 Handout of 1/23 Children's estimation activity 1/28 Singapore materials - whole number multiplication, area,
volume, fraction multiplication 1/30 Handout of selected Singapore materials Algebra: patterns, sequences, formulas, equations 1/30, 2/4 Text and class activities, section 2.1. That's Odd and What's Above from NCTM's
Navigation series, grades PreK-2 and grades 3-5 Designing investigations and gathering data 3/27, 4/1, 4/3 Text, section 3.1 Displaying data 4/3, 4/8 Text, section 3.2, exerpts of book by Frances Curcio. Average and median 4/10, 4/15 Text, section 3.3. Percentiles 4/17 Text, section 3.4 Standardized tests 4/22 handout Probability 4/24 handout
Test dates: (tentative) Wednesday, Feb. 6 and Wednesday, April 17.
Final Exams:
8 am class: Thursday, May 2nd, 8 am - 11 am in our usual classroom, 302 Boyd.
10 am class: Friday May 3rd, 8 am - 11 am in our usual classroom, room 302 Boyd.
Advice on studying for the tests