Math

Partial Products!  Try it!

5th graders can do these things at home to help them with unit 4.

This is an easy game for 5th graders to play at home!

5th graders are working with thousandths.  Look how small they are!

4th graders can do these things at home to help them with unit 4.

4^th graders are working on new multiplication strategies – including PARTIAL PRODUCTS.  This strategy seems odd.  I get that.  But, it’s actually a wonderful way for kids to understand the complete process of multiplication.  Please help your kids with this strategy.  They will use traditional strategies in 5^th grade, but in order to understand HOW to do it, they really need to understand the actual process.  Thank you. 

5^th graders are working on decimals and using coordinate pairs.  We talk about decimals a lot when it comes to money, but when we add THOUSANDTHS, it makes things a bit more difficult.  Despite the fact that we don’t break our money up into thousandths, we can still use the concept of money to identify the size of a decimal. 

I have included some things you can do at home to help with understanding concepts within Unit 4.