Verbal Group: Junior Great Books - Self-Respect
Junior Great Books is a strong, inquiry-based language arts program that refines and extends students' skills in reading, thinking, and communicating. The program is a model of student-centered learning in which students work with complex ideas and rigorous texts.
This week's Lesson: All Summer In a Day
Objective: Students will explore a concept relevant to the story they will be reading.
Activity: The students will read along as the story is read aloud and share their questions about it.
Vocabulary:
Activity: The students will read along as the story is read aloud and share their questions about it.
Vocabulary:
- shared inquiry
Quantitative Group: What are your Chances
In this unit, students begin their exploration of probability as a measurement of the likelihood of events. It is designed to engage students as mathematicians conducting and analyzing experiments that involve the likelihood of events happening. Students will have an opportunity to think deeply about the big ideas of probability as they conduct experiments, gather data and analyze results. They will see how mathematics is used in real-life situations as they create a "Carnival of Chance" using games constructed with the laws of probability.
This Week's Lesson: homework madness
Big Mathematical Ideas:
Many events do not have an equal probability of occurring. These situations are referred to as unequally-likely events. The probabilities of unequally-likely events can be estimated by collecting data. If data is collected from an experiment and the experimental probabilities are all different, this may indicate such a situation.
Objectives:
Standards:
7.SP.6 Approximate the probability of a chance event by collecting data on the chance process that produces it and observing its long-run relative frequency, and predict the approximate relative frequency given the probability.
Many events do not have an equal probability of occurring. These situations are referred to as unequally-likely events. The probabilities of unequally-likely events can be estimated by collecting data. If data is collected from an experiment and the experimental probabilities are all different, this may indicate such a situation.
Objectives:
- Students will learn that many events are not equally likely.
- Students will practice expressing experimental results as fractions.
- Students will be introduced to the Law of Large Numbers
Standards:
7.SP.6 Approximate the probability of a chance event by collecting data on the chance process that produces it and observing its long-run relative frequency, and predict the approximate relative frequency given the probability.
Spatial Group: drawing stars and building polyhedra
In this unit, students explore our numeration system in depth and discover a stone with unusual markings. By the end of the unit, students uncover the mysteries found on this stone, by applying and extending their new knowledge of place value and other numeration systems.
This week's Lesson: lesson 3 and 4
Objective:
Students will draw all of the 8-pointed stars, and make a conjecture that predicts which "over numbers" produce the same star.
Students will draw all the 9-pointed stars, distinguish continuous stars from overlapping stars, and describe the structure of a star with a multiplication fact.
Vocabulary: factor, product, asterisk, point, line segment, polygons
Standards:
5.MP.1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
5.MP.2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
5.MP.3 Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
5.MP.4 Model with mathematics.
5.MP.5 Use appropriate tools strategically.
5.MP.6 Attend to precision.
5.MP.7 Look for and make use of structure.
5.MP.8 Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Students will draw all of the 8-pointed stars, and make a conjecture that predicts which "over numbers" produce the same star.
Students will draw all the 9-pointed stars, distinguish continuous stars from overlapping stars, and describe the structure of a star with a multiplication fact.
Vocabulary: factor, product, asterisk, point, line segment, polygons
Standards:
5.MP.1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
5.MP.2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
5.MP.3 Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
5.MP.4 Model with mathematics.
5.MP.5 Use appropriate tools strategically.
5.MP.6 Attend to precision.
5.MP.7 Look for and make use of structure.
5.MP.8 Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.