Let's go Shopping! Update: 10/29-11/2

Risk taking can pay off...in time. 

I'm sure by now the kids have told you about their careers and their yearly income. Did they tell you about their net salary and how their tax bracket taxed 10-15-25% of portions of their income? We had a great time in math last week and through our authentic context and theme we are able to apply many of the content that the standards for unit 2 call for students to learn. Please refer to the standards sheet I emailed last week.

Last week we:

* Started our careers and found out our annual income.
* Found percentages of whole numbers to calculate our income tax.
* Divided to determine our monthly pay as well as payday amount.
* Went out to eat to practice addition and multiplying by decimals to calculate sales tax.
* Balanced our checkbooks to make debits and practice subtraction.

This week the standards call for more application of content including:

* Addition of numbers with decimals
* Subtraction of numbers with decimals.
* Multiplication of numbers with decimals
* Division
* Understanding place value.
* Estimating

Some activities we will do to apply the content from the standards:

* Grocery shopping
* General shopping
* Calculating sales tax
* Balancing our checkbooks

On Halloween, the 5th grade kids will stay in their homerooms to do a fun estimation activity inspired from our read aloud Because of Mr. Terupt and they will try to determine how many blades of grass our soccer field has!