Alert: Please tell your child not to go forth with the mean absolute deviation homework I assigned. If they already have that's fine but I am going to give them some slightly different work.
Here's what's on tap for this week:
Monday: The kids are going to get an introduction to Blackboard. This is an online learning portal in which students will watch video lessons at home or in school. They have usernames and passwords and will be expected to watch lessons at home prior to arriving at school for the day's work. The kids will review finding median with an even numbered data set and they will also review finding mean absolute deviation. I will meet with kids in small groups.
Tuesday: There's no formal math acceleration course today because of CBM testing, BUT that doesn't mean the math will stop. The kids in 5V will study math in the context of the 2012 Election. We'll be looking at our country elects its President by beginning a study of the Electoral Map.
Wednesday: We will begin our first Ice Tea Day. These Ice Tea Days are meant to apply the standards we are learning through an imaginary ice tea business. The kids will create an ice tea recipe, study how many ingredients they'd have to purchase and at what rates. They'll collect information/data about their purchasing, creation, and other ice tea businesses and plot the data. The kids will study rates, data collection, analysis, representation, and visualization through out the process.
Thursday: The kids will study histograms and differentiate them between bar graphs. They'll eventually represent authentic data from the ice tea data on histograms.
Friday: The kids will study steam and leaf plots and understand how to plot data on the steam and leaf plots.
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