Practice Your Division Facts Today!

Practice your division facts:
Computation Practice
Drag Race Division
Division Derby

Khan Academy Practice

Converting Units of Measurement -- Metric System -- cm to m

European Exploration

When Europeans started to explore the world by sea, it changed history in many ways.  Watch the video below to find out how they used new inventions and math to help them.



The video below discusses why Europeans explored and what Europe was like at the beginning of the Age of Exploration.

Converting Units of Measurement -- Customary System -- Yards to Inches

More Multiplying with Decimals

Follow up on this video and learn more about multiplying with decimals.

The Mexican Revolution: Background Lesson for Esperanza Rising

We will be reading the book Esperanza Rising in language arts class.  In order to understand this book, you need to know a bit about the Mexican Revolution.

Multiplying Decimals Introduction

Watch more videos about multiplying decimals on Khan Academy.

How to Draw a Haunted House

How to Draw a Haunted House

How to Draw a Complex Haunted House

Happy October!

PBL Unit -- Native Americans -- Create a Slideshow

How did Native Americans adapt their way of life to the resources available in the environment?

This is our driving question for this project.  Everything you add to your slideshow should be based on this question.

1. Please create a slideshow with your group that is between 6 and 10 slides long.
2. Make sure you include the driving question on the first slide.
3. Choose one Native American tribe from North America.  Research and read about them online.
4. Create slides that show how they used their resources to survive.  Make sure you explain what they did and how they did it.
5. Use pictures and images that are related to the information on your slides.
6. Include at least one slide that talks about what region your tribe is from.
7. Proofread your slides.

Here are some resources to get you started:

Native American Facts for Kids.

Kid Info:  Native Americans

List of Native Americans

Native American Regions

You may need to use Google for more information on a specific tribe.

Please ask for help if you are not sure that the tribe you picked was from North America.  I can also help you if you are having trouble choosing a tribe.

Multiplication Review

Check out the first video for a review of how to multiply with an area model:



Now watch the second video for a review of the standard algorithm when you multiply.


Finally, watch more videos and try some practice on the Khan Academy website.
Don't forget to practice your math facts!

Prime Factorization Review

Atoms and Molecules

Read about atoms.

Read about molecules.

Order of Operations

The song below is just for fun.  Watch the video above for good information.