Did you send the link or am I not seeing what to do?

Sounds like a great Pi Day, Nancy! Lucky kids!

- Judy

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Happy Pi Day.
I wanted to share with you what we did here at IKM.
All 5th and 6th graders were involved. I assigned 6 6th graders as my team leaders and divided all students into groups. Their first task was to name their teams and design a logo. Both needed to involved circles or things that were round. A few examples were Pienators with each piece of the pie being a teammates name. Ring of Fire and they had a fireball as a logo with their names in the center.
Every station was given 15minutes and there were 7 stations in 4 different locations of the building. I will be sharing the packet with teachers at my E2T2 regional group meeting in April.
16 pies were brought in by 6th grade students. My daughter, mother, and brother all came in to help and supervise some of the stations and to cut up all the pies. At the end of the activities we gave out prizes for some of the events. Total time for this was 2 hours and 20 minutes.
It went smooth and kids were great.
Nancy Kloewer

I didn't get an attachment. The students are very proficient with using scientific notation (positive and negative exponents), but when I look for resources they don't give anything with a situation. I have found examples of use (like piano octaves), but they are simply examples.

I'll take anything you have...my e-mail is conferc@glenwoodschools.org if it is easier to send it via e-mail.

Thanks SO much for your quick response!

This attachment isn't problem solving, but it does help the students understand scientific notation. Diane Royer
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Does anyone out there have problem-solving situations using scientific notation? All I can find are computation type problems where there is no context.

We are holding a design-a-t-shirt day in honor of Pi Day. The winner gets to choose 3-14 of his/her friends/relatives, etc. to a pie luncheon served during HR with our principal, Rick Kentfield, serving as head waiter. If you would like information that we are positing/distributing, please send me an e-mail or respond to this. conferc@glenwoodschools.org

ITBS happiness: I was so excited to hear from my math students (in all three of my courses) that they felt like they tackled the math computation portion of ITBS via the use of estimation. SO many said that they estimated and found the only reasonable answer vs computing each problem. Even though they/I understand that this portion is strictly computation (without understanding) and doesn't count toward their math core, I was impressed with their INNATE sense to do just this. (In other words, I didn't tell them to use this strategy! It was ALL them!) Those are the small things about this job that make it so very enjoyable and rewarding!

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Here are some cool online calculator resources. Best yet they are free.
http://www.calcoolate.com/

Create a graph from kidszone
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/


etutor graphing calculator
http://www.e-tutor.com/et2/graphing/

The folks at AEA 11 have put together a fabulous resource that is searchable.
http://www.aea11.k12.ia.us/tech/infusion/

Their are lesson plans, activities and technology integration resources.

Ma and Pa Kettle can help you teach math on TeacherTube.
http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?...c0e40fbd9beaaa288d3

Lots of fun here in the south. If you are looking for a one size fits all resource for information and lesson plans try Thinkfinity once known as MarcoPolo. Thinkfinity.org, previously known as MarcoPolo, is the Verizon Foundations comprehensive online portal and program to more than 50,000 standards-based, K-12 lesson plans and other educational resources provided by some of the nations leading educational organizations. Content for Thinkfinity is provided through 11 of the nations leading organizations in the fields of education and literacy: the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Reading Association, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, National Center for Family Literacy, National Council on Economic Education, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Council of Teachers of English, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, National Geographic Society, ProLiteracy Worldwide and Smithsonians National Museum of American History.
http://www.thinkfinity.org/home.aspx

Here is a resource the folks in the south were talking about the regional meeting. It is on Rotational symmetry. Thanks to Mike and Dyan

http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/lea...7/part_b/index.html

I was asked to send out this link to all of you. As I find applets that align with my standards/benchmarks (or support/provide remidial assistance), I post them on the web. I have all of the sites coded. When I take a group to the lab I can send them to this site and tell them which of the applets I want them to explore. This saves headache of having to bookmark them or having them type in the address.

I update it as I find new applets.

http://www.glenwoodschools.org/ms/MS/Stude...0web%20page%203.pdf

Follow these steps if that does not work:
www.glenwoodschools.org/ms
click on STUDENT RESOURCES
click on 8TH GRADE ALGEBRA (it says algebra but it is for gen/alg and pre al classes)
click on MANIPULATIVE LIST WEB PAGES
You will see the code, the applet name, a simple description as well as the hyperlink.

I have a copy of the checklists from the website; however, the communications checklist is a duplicate of the connections checklist. Does anyone have an electronic copy of the comunications checklist that I can download? Thanks.
Diane Royer

-Judy


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