Area + Perimeter Matters!

Today regular math classes are reviewing finding areas + perimeters as I have observed the major need for review. These are skills that are essential for understanding what Stretching and Shrinking has in store this quarter. Please be sure to ask questions when you don't remember how to find an area or perimeter. The sheets you completed in class today have examples at the top that are very helpful as is the Resource Packet I gave you the first week of school.

Challenge students did a self-assessment of their Wumps and discussed ways to shrink Eddie today. We recognized that 1/2X is the same thing as both .5X and X/2. This will help us to determine our own rules for taking Eddie and making him shrink. I am excited to see what creative ideas you all have on how to make Eddie shrink. The next order of business in Stretching and Shrinking is to figure out how to use coordinate rules to move images to different parts of the coordinate graph. Kerry had a prediction today that to do this you will add or subtract "things" from the coordinate pairs. Hmmm...guess we will just have to see, won't we!?! ;-)

REMINDERS:

~Don't forget that throughout this unit, if you ever see anything that has to do with what we are learning in class (stretching/shrinking), bring it in (or a description of it) to share with the class and Miss Kohr will give you extra points for your class grade! :-)

Today's homework:

Challenge: Shrink Eddie

Regular: Area + Perimeter Review Worksheets p. 44, 100, 101, & 45 (EXCEPT 4th HOUR)

Also: remember to...
~Redo any assignments necessary (you have one week to redo work in math)
~KEEP STUDYING THOSE MATH FACTS...you could have another timed test any day now :-) :-) :-)


Question of the Day: The parking meter was invented by Carl C. Magee in the first half of the 20th century. In what year was it first used? The digits of the year sum to 18 and the year is divisible by 5.

**YOU CAN'T JUST LOOK THIS UP ON THE INTERNET...YOU MUST SHOW ME A MATH STRATEGY FOR FIGURING OUT YOUR ANSWERS TO GET IT CORRECT!!!**

Good luck my savvy students!!! Remember, the first student to answer the Question of the Day correctly will get a small prize from me the next day! :-)