Week of October 16-20

This week, the third graders completed and shared their Restaurant Owner and Dog Walker projects. It was amazing to see how much math was used in both of these careers. The restaurant owners learned that some meals will have a larger profit margin than others, and that the prices of each menu item have to seem reasonable to the customer. Our dog walker learned that he could make a good amount of money by walking five dogs at a time! Click on the links below to see the menus the students created!
Healthy Choices
Chinese Diner

4a continued to learn about how to use theoretical probability to make predictions about what should happen in a dice game. This allowed them to place their chips appropriately in order to increase their chances of winning the game.
4b learned some methods of solving problems involving combinations (think ice cream with various toppings). We discovered that tree diagrams help us organize our info so we can use it to answer questions involving probability. Some students were even able to figure out all of the combinations of heads and tails when flipping one coin four times in a row! Then they could find the probability of getting all heads or all tails.

In 5th grade, we started to use what we learned about defining variables to start to create our own video games with our own game images. We defined our target, danger, player, and background to be specific images related to our games. Next, we will define functions to get our game images moving!