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Math Warm-Ups Oct. 29-Nov. 2, 2012

This week’s warm-ups–already!  Aren’t you proud?!  Another week of review of things we’ve already done, but needed to tweak a little bit.

Monday

This warm-up was in response to a reflection I had them write the Friday before.  I asked them to tell me what they’d learned during Box Factory, how their thinking had changed, and what questions they still had.  These were ones that came up on several kiddos’ papers.  This was an opportunity for me to see what other kids’ ideas were before I just answered the questions for them.  And what I had hoped would happen did–the other kids in the class gave responses that cleared it up for us all. 🙂

Tuesday

This equation gave us a good reminder of the order of operations, and how you have to DIVIDE or MULTIPLY before you ADD or SUBTRACT.  We ended up with answers of 4 and 16, and had to discuss which one was correct.

Wednesday

This one was from Halloween, can you tell?

Thursday

The discussion of “which comes first” came up again, only this time the answer was that it didn’t matter since both of the signs were division.  You would just do the in order from left to right.

Fridays are a little crazy in our classroom in the morning because many of us come in later due to Instrumental Music, so no Warm-Up today.  Enjoy working through these and let us know what you think.  🙂

Math Warm-Ups Oct. 8-12, 2012

This week we were working with volume and surface area, so our warm-ups had to do with those topics.

Monday

 

Tuesday

This one was interesting.  I asked it purposely because of the work we had been doing with The Box Factory investigation  for the last week–which is all about how to build boxes that hold 24 objects–and was about volume.  We hadn’t named it as volume yet, though, and I wanted to see how many people would make that connection.  Many of them did not.  I saw many “thinking faces” as they struggled with how to answer this one.  I heard someone say, “I don’t remember what volume is…” and then several people answered with what it was, but didn’t tell how you’d find it.  We had a great conversation about this one, and I heard lots of “oh!” when I told them that they’d been working with volume for a whole week.

 

Wednesday

This one was again related to the work we’d been doing during Math Workshop.  They are used to seeing this kind of equation, since we’d spent a couple of weeks on order of operations recently, and we had been using this kind of equation in our volume work–the parentheses told the equation for the bottom of the box, and the last number told how many layers there were.  But I wanted to see if they could explain the formula for finding volume, and tell how they multiplied length x width x height.  They don’t need to know this yet, but I thought they were ready for it, so I threw it at them.  And many–probably most really–figured it out.  We brought the rest of them along through the conversation we had around it.

 

Thursday

There was not a math warm-up on Thursday because we needed those ten minutes to work on our volume projects.

 

Friday

The dimensions on this warm-up were from three boxes we’d been working with this week.  We’d talked several times about how this was really the same box, turned two different ways to make a new base, so with different dimensions.  We’d already talked about the Commutative Property in warm-ups, and so I wanted to see if anyone knew about how this illustrated the Associative Property. Again, a great conversation and many connections were made as we talked.  Have I said before how much I LOVE these warm-ups?  So many great things happen in just a quick discussion.  Love it!

Happy solving!  What do you know about volume and surface area?  What can you teach us? 🙂

Math Warm-Ups Sept. 17-21, 2012

I think I said it in my last post, but golly–being sick is hard!  Someone around my house has had a cough for at least a month now, and I’ve had one for at least 2 weeks!  Hence my absence from blog-world for that long.  All I could stand to do was fall into my bed and sleep when I got home.  Luckily, though, I’ve been to the doctor and gotten some medicine and am on the mend.  So here I am. 🙂

The horrible thing about not writing for two weeks is that I have a million and one things to post about that have happened, but I’m not really sure how and when I will get them all done–because new things keep getting added everyday!  So I guess I’ll start here and see where it takes me.

Last week we were working on division in math, but then added in some practice (an introduction really) with order of operations.  Here’s what our warm-ups looked like:

Monday

Tuesday

I was gone and so don’t have a pic of this one, but they solved the problem that they wrote the story for on Monday, using an efficient strategy.

Wednesday

When we started, the red parentheses were not there, and so many were not sure which part to do first.  This was the introduction to using order of operations.

Thursday

The original problem is what’s written in pink, and the brown is our work after we talked about how to tackle it.

Friday

I love how complicated this one is!  This one tricked many friends, but we’re getting a hang of it now that we’ve done it several days in a row.  This was a brand new concept to most mathematicians in my room.

How did you answer our math warm ups?  What can you tell us about using Order of Operations to solve problems?  Any advice you can give us?  Thanks for leaving your comments to help continue our learning. 🙂

 

 

Math Warm-Ups Sept 4-7, 2012

So after I posted about our Morning Math Warmups last week, I figured I would start doing that every week.  It will be great to see all of them once we’re finished this year.  We would really appreciate it if you followed along with our learning this year, and even comment with your own answers.  We could learn from you!

Since Monday was Labor Day, there are only four this week:

 

 

 

 

How would you answer these?  What warmups would you use for factors and multiples? Leave us a comment!

Morning Math Warmups

This being the second week of school, we got a little closer to following our regular daily schedule.  In Math, that meant that we practiced the components of Guided Math.  One of those components is our Morning Math Warm-ups.

Each day when they come in, there will be a question on the easel to get their brains warmed up.  Generally they will be math-related, but sometimes not obviously so–not just “solve this equation” type questions.  These were the warm-ups for the week:

 

How would you answer these questions?  If you’re a parent: talk to your mathematician about how they answered them.  If you’re a teacher: how do you use warm-ups in your classroom?  Tell us about it! 🙂

A Few Math Nuggets

Hello again, friends!

Ok, so I’m open to any and all readers/comments, but this one is especially for my 5th grade (or any other student) readers!  Think about our Math Warm Up today, and answer these questions:

1.  Write the number 143, 674, 998 in expanded and word form.

2.  Round that number 143, 674, 998 to the nearest 10, 100, 1,000 and 10,000.

Comment with your answers!  🙂