August 31, 2006
Our classes have been buzzing with activity. The students are putting to use the skills they learned regarding creating and analyzing graphs. They've been counting and sorting, calculating and graphing their M&M's. They're doing a great job and you can see by their almost finished projects that they have learned and can understand how to create and analyze bar graphs. This assignment will be considered an authentic task and therefore graded as a major test!
Posted by Jennings at 03:40 PM
August 28, 2006
Practice counting by 10's starting with 5. Ex. 5, 15, 25, 35 etc. Then try it beginning with 3 ---13,23,33, etc.
Posted by Jennings at 02:42 PM
Today's objective: Bar graphs and Histograms. HW Workbook study guide 2-3 #1 and Practice 2-3 #'s 3,4,5,and 6. * Remember the bars in the histograms will be touching but not the ones in the regular bar graphs.
Posted by Jennings at 02:40 PM
August 24, 2006
Posted by Jennings at 03:04 PM
Tonight's homework is Practice 17, #'s 11 - 20. There will be a quiz tomorrow on odd/even, multiplication families, multiplying 2 digit numbers, multiplying by 0,1,5,10 and 11, and finally lines.
Posted by Jennings at 02:56 PM
August 23, 2006
great job today! HW practice sheet 17, 1-10
Posted by Jennings at 03:59 PM
No homework tonight or tomorrow...Performance series testing!!!
Posted by Jennings at 03:57 PM
August 22, 2006
Tonight's homework - Handout #16 practice. Do all. Today's discussion was about vertical, horizontal and oblique lines. We also covered "some went away" stories.
Posted by Jennings at 01:46 PM
Tonight's homework is workbook PRACTICE 2-1 (#'s 1,3,6 and 7). You will need to do these on a separate sheet of notebook paper. Today's objective was to learn how to create frequency tables.
Posted by Jennings at 01:43 PM
August 21, 2006
Tonight's homework - multiplication tables Supplemental practice 15 #'s 11 - 20
Posted by Jennings at 02:21 PM
Tonight's homework - Do handout "read for fun in the sun".
Posted by Jennings at 02:19 PM
Todays Objective: Introduction to Unit 1 - Data Analysis. Students practiced reading from charts. A parent letter was placed in the classwork section of their notebooks. This letter will help explain the unit and gives great websites connected to our text for practice and games.
Posted by Jennings at 02:15 PM
August 18, 2006
Today we continued pre-testing for goals! We reviewed multiplication facts 0,1,2,5 and 10. Friday is DEAR time in math. Always come to class with a novel to read!
Posted by Jennings at 02:17 PM
Today in class we discussed grades. The students exchanged a phone number with a study buddy and recorded my blog address and e-mail address (debbie.jennings@cobbk12.org). I distributed their workbooks and syllabi to be signed. Friday is DEAR (drop everything and read) time in math - please always come to class with a novel to read.
Posted by Jennings at 02:14 PM
August 17, 2006
Anyone interested can visit a website that parallels our textbook. You can access review activities, quizzes, and practice tests for each chapter. You can view this website at http://www.glencoe.com/sec/math/mac/mac01.course1
Posted by Jennings at 06:43 PM
Last year the 6th grade math standards were changed. The new standards can be seen by visiting the following website:
http://www.georgiastandards.org/math.asp
Posted by Jennings at 06:32 PM
This week we spent our days familiarizing everyone with life at Mabry! We worked on our informations sheets, set up our binders, took a pre-test, met Dr. Tyson and discussed school and class expectations. Now we are ready to start learning!
Posted by Jennings at 06:28 PM
August 08, 2006
How exciting is it to begin a new year! We all start with a clean slate and have an opportunity to discover new and wonderful things. I hope everyone had a wonderful summer. I want to welcome everyone back and look forward to teaching you math this year.
Posted by Jennings at 07:43 PM
