Week of October 9-13

The third grader restaurant owners worked on creating menus and seating charts for their restaurants. When pricing the items on the menus, we discussed the importance of making a profit. After figuring out the cost to make each menu item, the students tripled or quadrupled that amount in order to make money and stay in business! The dog walker also had to figure out how much to charge per hour by calculating the distance each dog would be walked, how long it would take to walk the dog, and what a typical dog walker charges per hour.

In 4th grade, we discussed the difference between theoretical and experimental probabilities. Theoretical probability is determined by analyzing a situation and looking at the number of favorable outcomes over the number of possible outcomes. It never changes. Experimental probability can only be figured out AFTER an experiment has taken place. It is the number of favorable outcomes over the number of total trials. This fraction can change from one experiment to the next.
For some practice problems related to what we learned, click HERE.

In 5th grade, we learned how useful it is to define values using variables. It helps make our code much shorter and more efficient. The students even figured out how to define the string "Mrs. Emmich" to evaluate to a picture of me with my family!