Students have worked so hard in the research process to complete their museum placards and artifacts for our ancient civilizations projects. We researched, took notes, drafted, signed, edited and made some amazing final products for our museum display.
As a culminating adventure, students were called on to help me with a slight dilemma where they used their learning to come through with flying colors! Our ancient civilization time travel mystery was enjoyed by all and we look forward to starting on exploring through problem solving next week!
M^3 (Mentoring Mathematical Minds) Unraveling the Mystery of the Moli Stone: For our second unit, we looked at regrouping to develop a greater understanding of why it occurs in computation. In exploring groupings they visit the Land of Treble and explore the base 3 number system. If you heard your child talking about gickles, bickles, and rickles, they haven’t gone mad, they have just been making trades in base 3. They practiced both adding and subtracting and then enjoyed the game “A Race in Base” where they used both base 10 and base 3 in order to make comparisons between the two number systems.
Critical and Creative Thinking:
Sudoku puzzles have been our focus as of late. We have been using the process of elimination and 2-step logic to complete our number grids.
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