Fractions

Students had a challenge today! They had to use strips of paper to create the fractions: 1 whole, one half, one third, one fourth, one sixth, and one eighth.  They then write statements to compare their fractions and shared to the class. The rest of the class used their strips to determine if they were correct or incorrect.

Book Order

Math Manipulatives

While working on division this week, many students used manipulatives to help them solve problems involving regrouping and remainders! Base tens blocks are a great way to solve problems and help build conceptual understanding.

National Breakfast Week

Tomorrow morning, in celebration of National Breakfast Week, all HMS students will receive a FREE breakfast! Upon arrival, students will enter the cafeteria to pick up their free breakfast.  We will then be eating breakfast together in our classroom!

No School Tomorrow

Just a friendly reminder that there is no school tomorrow! See you Wednesday!

Math Challenge!

This week, Taegan, Brendan, Connor, Emily, and Kyra all got the weekly math challenge correct! We pulled out of a hat to find the winner and it was... TAEGAN!!

A GREAT Math Question!

Paige was wondering if a calculator would tell you a remainder for division, so we gave it a try!  We first solved 19 divided by 2 using craft sticks.  We discovered that the quotient was 9 with a remainder of 1.  We then tried it on a calculator... but wait! The answer was 9.5!  We tried with our craft sticks again to be sure we didn't make a mistake because how could a calculator be wrong? We still got 9 with a remainder of 1!  After a great class conversation, we discovered that a calculator breaks the number apart into a decimal or fraction so that each group is equal while we only used whole numbers and recorded the rest as a remainder, or left over  We decided that in third grade, we would stick with whole numebrs and remainders but that someday we would be dividing decimals or fractions in other grades.  A single question led to such a great conversation and discovery!