Saturday, October 25, 2014

math core progressions

The teachers at our school are participating in a grant that is diving into Common Core Math practice standards.  We meet on Wednesdays after school nine times during the school year and three Saturdays in the school year.  This past Wednesday we explored different methods to answer division questions.  It's pretty fun to see how math is a lot more based on having conversations about your problem solving instead of just focusing on algorithms.

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the national mall

Today we spent the day at the national mall. First we went to the Washington Monument, next WWII memorial, then Lincoln memorial, Vietnam Me...