Decimals and Percents

How to change fractions and decimals to percents:

Math is fun: Converting Decimals to percents
What is a Percent?
Percentage Video

Activities:

Decimals and Percents Quiz
Percentage Millionaire
Fractions, Decimals, and Percents Quia

When you get get 9 out of 9 on the next activity, then you are ready to do the practice:

Quick Check

Review Week

Below you will find the schedule for review. You can use the previous week's posts to help study for those skills and if you go to Study Island you can practice the specific skills.

Monday: Number Sense-Factors, Multiples, Divisibility, prime, composite, odd, and even
Tuesday: Fractions and Decimals (multiplying, dividing, adding/subtracting, comparing)
Wednesday: Area (Triangles, Circles, Parallelograms, and Composite Figures)
Thursday: Volume and Capacity and Converting Units
Friday: Graphing and Algebra

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Have a great week!

Mrs. Hallum

All about circles

I will be adding to this blog post as we work through our units. The first thing that you will need information on is the parts of a circle.

Circle Parts

Science for Kids and Circles
Cool Math and Circles

Circle Circumference

In order to find the circumference of a circle, you must multiply pi and the diameter.

How to find circumference
Circumference and pi
History for kids: pi
History of Pi

More to come later...

Area

To help you learn how to find the area of the following shapes, please use the sites below: square, rectangle, triangle, and parallelogram.

Understanding Area
Formulas for Area
Understanding all area
Rectangle Area
Square Area
Formulas for area


Area Activities:
Shapes and their Area

New Unit

We have begun a new unit in math. The unit deals with 2-D shapes. This week we are working on congruence. Below you will find tutorials and practice sites on congruence:

Tutorials:

Encyclopedia for kids
Teaching Congruence
Online Math Learning for Congruence

Practice:
Harcourt's Congruent or Similar
Math at a Glance and congruent figures
Congruent or Similar

Have a wonderful week and remember, the assessment is Tuesday! :)
Mrs. S. Hallum

Upcoming Week

Just a reminder that next week will be a little different. We will doing a fractions performance assessment on Wednesday and Thursday. This will assess the student's understanding on the following skills:

Comparing fractions
Adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators
Simplifying Fractions
Finding Equivalent Fractions
Modeling Multiplication and Division of Fractions

If you need any help with the above skills, then please scroll down and look at the tutorials and practice sights listed.

Enjoy your MLK Holiday!

Adding and Subtracting fractions with unlike denominators

Tutorials:

Math.com Adding and Subtracting Fractions with unlike denominators
Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denominators by Coolmath
Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Mixed Numbers
Visual Fractions Tutorial

Practice:

AAA Math Practice
Math-play Game
Adding and Subtracting Fractions on Quia

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Mrs. S. Hallum