Welcome to the 5V Math BLOG: Update 9/5-9/7

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Greetings 5V Math Family Students. My name is Mr. Vaid and I will be your child's math teacher this year. Math begins at 9:30am and ends at 10:30am each day, M-F of the school week. At our curriculum night, next Thursday, 9/13 (more times forthcoming) you will learn more about the Common Core Math Curriculum our School district and many other school districts across the nation are putting into place this year.

Anyway, here is a brief update on what we'll be studying this week:

Wednesday 9/5: We will learn what statistical questions are and we will differentiate between them and other types of questions. Students will also write statistical questions and interpret them.

Thursday 9/6: The students will learn how to create what's called a dot plot and they will also see the benefits of creating dot plots. In addition, we will study measures of center including mean, median, and mode, and we will study outliers. 

Friday 9/7: We will wrap up the week by studying measures of variability including range and mean absolute deviation.

For the following week, we will continue to practice problem solving strategies such as guess and check, work backwards, and draw a table. We'll study these with specific problems. In addition, we will begin our thematic ice tea project.