Friday, January 20, 2012

What 5th Grade Math is Looking Like these Days


We are still using Math on the Level and we are still loving it, but I find myself adding to it as time goes by.  (Did anyone else just break out in song?)  These days, Alyssa's math schedule looks like this:

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday I introduce new concepts and she does her 5-a-day papers just the way MOTL tells us. :-)

On Thursday, Alyssa works out of this book



Fraction Stories was just what Alyssa needed!  At the end of fourth grade, she was having such a hard time with fractions.  I really wasn't sure what the problem was, so I didn't know where to start in helping her.  When we started school this year, we started from the beginning, as if she'd never seen a fraction before in her life.  It worked!  This book is a great tool for learning fractions.  I highly recommend it!


On Fridays, Alyssa works out of  this book:


She is having so much fun!  It's chock full of lessons on sales tax, percentages, addition, multiplication... really, the list goes on.  Good stuff!

Do you have any fun math books or games that you use?

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