Week of November 2-4

This week, my 3rd graders continued working on solving problems with 2 (and even 3) variables by making an organized list and using guess and test and by drawing a picture. We talked about old fashioned general stores and how they sold penny candy. Then we tried to figure out the values of certain candies by looking at two equations that go together. We also discussed ways to eliminate certain items from our lists (items that cost 0 cents, items that give a negative difference, items that give too small or too large a difference).

In 4th grade, we tried to get our robots to move around a baseball diamond by thinking about how to get the robot to move straight a specific distance and what type of turn is necessary. We used our knowledge of circumference and different types of turns from our previous lessons to help us.

In 5th grade, we finally began to animate our video games using functions that change the value of the x-coordinates of our dangers and targets.