Every Day Counts

Reviewing how to tell time during Calendar Math/Every Day Counts (EDC)

What is Compass Odyssey?

CompassLearning Odyssey® is another online resource available to all DCPS students. I use this software in the classroom as a tool to help reinforce or build skills and concepts in language, reading, math and science. This software is available to your child on any computer that has Internet access.

To access Compass Odyssey, your child’s needs his/her assigned username and password.

Has your child checked what in his/her Compass backpack lately?

What is Destination?

Destination Learning Management™ DLM4 gives educators the tools and training they need to provide effective, individualized, standards-based reading and math instruction and assessment. This is another online resource available to all DCPS students. I use this software as a tool to assess or help build foundational skills and concepts in math and reading. This software is available to your child on any computer that has Internet access. To access Destination Learning, your child’s needs his/her assigned username and password.

Has your child had a chance to access Destination lately?

What is Number Worlds?

To me (the teacher)… Number Worlds is an online resource I use as a tool to assess or build foundational skills and concepts in math. To your child (the student)… it’s computer fun time!

To access Number Worlds, each child is given a membership card containing his/her unique login name (username) and password.

Remember, this is a tool available to your child in the classroom. In addition, this fun interactive software is accessible to your child wherever he/she uses a computer with Internet access (i.e. at home or library).

Has your child had a chance to explore Number Worlds lately?

We Are Family!

Fact Families are used to help students learn the relationship between addition and subtraction. Understanding the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction can be used to find subtraction facts.

How can you help at home? Give your child a math sentence/equation (i.e. 10-4 = 6) and asked them to tell you all of the related math sentences/equations. Remember, the same numbers are in each math sentence/equation in a fact family.

Have you visited this month's Standards Based Bulletin Board (SBBB)?

Sharing our Family Work

During closing, sharing our work after determining with a partner a fact family.

This group pulled the cards 4 and 7 (the parts) and determined together it makes 11 (the whole). Then they wrote the equations that had a relationship with those three numbers:

4 + 7 = 11

7 + 4 = 11

11 - 4 = 7

What is the missing related subtraction math sentence?

What is the Difference?

Today, we worked with number lines in order to figure out the difference.

Listen to this first grader try to explain someone else's strategy during closing discussion:

What strategy would you use to figure out the difference?

Measuring Tape with Different Units

We measured again the same tapes from yesterday, but this time, we are all using the same units of measure... either craft sticks or basketball player steps (size 14).

Our prediction was that we would all have about the same measurements. Uh, oh! Some of us measured Tape A and we came up with some interesting results.

Why do you think we have some different results?

Just As Long As My Hand

Today, we searched for items in the room just as long as our hands.

Morning Warm Up - Math

Solving Missing Numbers...

Explaining Math Strategy

Bob had 11 library books at home.
He returned 7 of them to the library.
How many library books does he still have at home?

Explaining to the class her math strategy used to solve a subtration story problem.

What strategy would you use to solve the story problem?

Money Matters

First graders are expected to recognize US currency coins and their values. Knowing the value of each coin is a must in order to complete this task. This morning, we practiced during Calendar Math. What is the value of these coins?

Listen to this first grader explain her answer:

At home, please help your child practice this important life skill.

What is the value of these coins?

What strategies do you use to calculate the coins' value?

How Many Toy Cars?

There are many ways to solve a story problem. Some first graders use pictures/numbers and count all, or count on, or use an open number line, or know their basic math facts.

What strategies would you use to solve a story problem?

How Many of Each?

"I have 9 toys. Some are blocks. Some are marbles.

How many of each can I have?"

Working with a partner to write equation and show thinking using pictures.
Can you find any other combinations?

Decomposing Shapes Using Fewest/Most Pattern Blocks

Ways to Make a Pattern-Block Shape

Math - Exploring Geometry

How Many On My Plate?

Working on our combinations of 9 with peas and carrots.