Friday, January 21, 2011

Semester One Reflection

1. In one paragraph, briefly describe your project. What did you do? What did you share at your exhibition? Why did you choose to share this?


Answer in complete sentences:


2a. What went well with respect to the planning phase of your project?

(Consider how well you worked with your partner, how the creation process went, how you decided on your project.)


2b. What went well with respect to the actual exhibition?

(Did you have enough information to share? Were you knowledgeable about your topic? Was what you created interesting to look at and did it encourage visitors to stop and learn more? Did you speak clearly?)


3a. What could be improved with respect to your planning process?

(Consider how well you worked with your partner, how the creation process went, how you decided on your project.)


3b. What could be improved with respect to the your exhibition?

(Did you have enough information to share? Were you knowledgeable about your topic? Was what you created interesting to look at and did it encourage visitors to stop and learn more? Did you speak clearly?)


4. Considering how much freedom you had in this project (freedom to choose your topic, freedom to choose how you would present your topic, freedom to use your time how you see fit and set your own deadlines) how do you think it all went? Was this process difficult? Was it hard not to have someone telling you specifically what to do? Did you find yourself wasting time or using your time well? Does what you created represent your best work? Do you think the audience was impressed with what our class created?

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Extension Assignments Week 15 (Jan. 11 - Jan. 15)

Once you have earned more than 20 points the extra credit points are only worth half their original value.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Unit 3: Comparing and Scaling: Ratio, Proportion and Percent

The next unit in your child’s mathematics class this year is Comparing and Scaling: Ratio, Proportion, and Percent. Students look at problems involving many situations and learn to make comparisons using ratios, fractions, percents, and rates.


UNIT GOALS

One goal of this unit is to develop students’ abilities to make useful comparisons of quantitative information using ratios, fractions, decimals, rates, unit rates, and percents. A second goal is to have students learn to use quantitative comparison information to make larger or smaller scale models.

Students should also learn different ways to reason in proportional situations and to recognize when such reasoning is appropriate.List of Class Readings/Resources (organized by date)


Investigation 1: Making Comparisons

Investigation 2: Comparing Ratios, Percents and Fractions

Investigation 3: Comparing and Scaling Rates

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