Exams Begin Tomorrow!

Exams for all periods are tomorrow!

Tips for Getting Ready:

- Don't try and cram tonight! You're ready!
- Go to bed early (or at your regular time)
- Don't eat anything funky or new tonight for dinner
- If you normally eat breakfast, eat breakfast. If you don't, then
don't.
- Laugh A LOT between now and tomorrow!
- Move through the test answering the questions you know first. Then
you can study tomorrow night things that you aren't so sure about and
nail them down on Wednesday.
- There will be plenty of time to work!!!
- You're going to do great!

Exam Time!

Hi all!

So, after a successful Art's Eve on Thursday and Our Town performance last night, I'm finally getting around to posting the exam review topics. You'll find in the next post a list of topics that your kids will need to review for they will be on the final exam, Tuesday and Wednesday. We've spent the past few days (and tomorrow) reviewing things that they feel they need more practice on.

Again, the exam is more of a diagnostic than anything else--to help me know, in another way, where your children are at skill-wise.

Hope you've all had a great weekend!

Exam Review Topics

Things You Will Want to Study/Review for Your Math 5 Final Exam

Multiplication & Division

• Label place value up to ten-million
• Write numbers out, long hand
• Write numbers given the English
• Solve multiplication problems that look like this: 2X2 and 3X3
• Solve division problems that look like this:
###/#, ###/##, #####/## 
• Estimate answers of division problems

Fractions

• Identify the numerator and denominator of a fraction
• Shade (draw) a fraction, identify a fraction from a drawing
• Label a fraction proper, improper or mixed
• Add and subtract fractions with like denominators
• List the factors of numbers
• Find the greatest common factor (GCF) of two numbers
• Reduce fractions to lowest terms
• Find equivalent fractions
• List the multiples of numbers
• Find the least common multiple (LCM) of two numbers
• Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators
• Compare fractions by finding common denominators
• Convert improper fractions to mixed number and mixed numbers to improper fractions

Decimals

• Identify the two parts of a decimal
• Identify a decimal based on its Decimal Square
• Draw a Decimal Square representing a decimal
• Identify the place value of a decimal up to the ten-thousandths place
• Read and/or write any decimal correctly
• Compare two decimals to see which one is bigger/smaller
• Put a list of decimals in order from least to greatest, or greatest to least
• Add decimals
• Subtract decimals

Fractions/Decimals/Percents & Word Problems

• Solve word problems involving adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing
• Solve word problems involving fractions and decimals
• Convert fractions to decimals
• Convert decimals to percents
• Convert percents to decimals
• Convert decimals to fractions

Geometry

• Identify, define, and write using correct notation: ray, angle, line, line segment, parallel lines, perpendicular lines
• Identify acute, obtuse, right and straight angles
• Estimate and measure an angle using a protractor
• Find the perimeter of squares, rectangles, and triangles
• BONUS – Find the perimeter of many-sided shapes
• Find the area of squares and rectangles
• Identify scalene, isosceles and equilateral triangles

HW!!

Test Day!

Today was a test day in all morning classes. The kids will receive
feedback tomorrow during class, as well as a checklist of things that
they will want to review for their final exam, next Tuesday &
Wednesday, May 13-14. I will post that up here as well, tomorrow.

Have a great day!

Geometry Quiz Tomorrow

Today we reviewed for our Geometry Quiz tomorrow.

What's the difference in a test and a quiz?

Well, for one thing, it's much shorter!  Plus it is covering just the basic skills that we have covered in this unit, less application.  And it's tomorrow!  I figured a "quiz" also feels better than "test" considering the exam a week from tomorrow.

Here are the skills they should be able to demonstrate tomorrow:

• Identify, define, and write using correct notation: ray, angle, line, line segment, parallel lines, perpendicular lines
• Identify acute, obtuse, right and straight angles
• Estimate and measure an angle using a protractor
• Find the perimeter of squares, rectangles, and triangles
• BONUS – Find the perimeter of many-sided shapes
• Find the area of squares and rectangles
• Identify scalene, isosceles and equilateral triangles

After tomorrow, we're on to review!  More on that later...

Warm up

HW

All about triangles

Today we studying triangles, their sides, their angles, their names and their measure.  We talked about scalene, isosceles, equilateral... and even found time to play around with all of the angles in a triangle equaling 180.

Homework over the weekend is complete another skills sheet on area and perimeter.  This is all in preparation for our GEometry test NEXT TUESDAY.  Have a great weekend!

Scalene, isosceles, and equilateral triangles

All about triangles, angles

Worksheet for homework

AREA!

Today was all about Area... squares and rectangles!  We talked about how to find the area by counting on a grid, as well as the short-cut: multiplying the length and the width.

They have a worksheet for homework this evening... one side is perimeter and the other is area.  They should follow all the instructions!

See the pictures today...

Intro to Area

To find the area...

Area of a rectangle

Area of a square

Using Square Units

HW

Perimeter of square

Perimeter of a rectangle

Perimeter of a triangle

What's the side?

Quiz Day

We took our quiz today!

Overall, a job well done.  Some kids will want to make corrections (actually, if they did miss some I want them to figure out who is who...)... and others are going to need to have a retake.  Check with your child.

Tomorrow its back to perimeter!

Perimeter example