Week of September 26-30

In 3rd grade, we continued to explore the concept of perimeter, and we also learned that the area is the space inside a shape. We calculated the area of various pens that all had the same perimeter and realized that their area varied. We discovered that out of all the rectangular pens, the square had the largest area.

The 4th graders learned what unequally likely events are. We conducted an experiment to find out how often students would get homework, and we realized that the teacher who designed the experiment was very smart because getting homework as an outcome was more likely than no homework! We also learned that according to the Law of Large Numbers, you have to do MANY trials for your experimental probability to get close to your theoretical probability. Check out a video that explains this below:
https://learnzillion.com/assignments/3QU9PH2

In 5th grade, we realized that when we write code, we can produce images, not just numbers. We did a lot of experimenting and discovered how to write the code for many different shapes of varying sizes and colors. We used math skills (properties of shapes, angles, problem solving) to help us understand the meaning behind the code we were writing.