Welcome

Welcome to our class website! This is designed to allow my students and their parents to see what is going on in our math classroom. You will find a guestbook, helpful websites and a classroom calendar with assignments and upcoming events.

Helpful Websites

Helpful websites for the Connected Math Program and the book Bits and Pieces

http://www.phschool.com/cmp2/

http://connectedmath.msu.edu/parents.html

Useful websites for information, games, and help with the topics covered in class:

http://www.rainforestmaths.com
http://www.studyzone.org/
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/math.jsp
http://www.coolmath.com/interior.htm
http://www.aaamath.com/
http://illuminations.nctm.org/
http://www.mathforum.org/
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/
http://illuminations.nctm.org/Lessons.aspx

MATRIX Grant

Your child is involved in the M.A.T.R.I.X Grant, what is the M.A.T.R.I.X Grant?
The Math Achievement To Realize Individual Excellence Grant or MATRIX Grant’s main objective is for teachers to integrate technology into math learning. The funds are used for teachers’ training and technology in each math classroom such as digital handhelds, interactive whiteboards, projectors, laptops, etc. The main objective for this Grant is to provide the students with problem solving skills and the ability to use technology that will be available to them in the real world to solve problems.

Adding Fun

Prime Time

The unit Prime Time was created to help students explore certain important properties of whole numbers, especially those related to multiplication and division.

The investigations in this unit will help students to:

Understand relationships among factors, multiples, divisors, and products;
Recognize and use properties of prime and composite numbers, even and odd numbers, and square numbers;
Use rectangles to represent the factor pairs of numbers;
Develop strategies for finding factors and multiples, least common multiples, and greatest common factors;
Recognize and use the fact that every whole number can be written in exactly one way as a product of prime numbers;
Use factors and multiples to solve problems and to explain some numerical facts of everyday life; and
Develop a variety of strategies for solving problems building models, making lists and tables, drawing diagrams, and solving simpler problems