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Patterns on the Clock

admin — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:04:26 -0700

We look for LUCKY pattern on the digital clock. 11:11 is the luckiest! We also like to tell everyone when we see a palindrome. A palindrome is a number (or word) that can be read the same forwards as backwards.

Googols of Websites on Google!

admin — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:02:56 -0700

I like to look for places to find really big numbers. One fun place is Google.

It shows how many website it is searching. Today it was searching 8,058,044,651 web pages. That's a lot! It also tells you how many it finds and how long it takes. When I searched the number googol it came up with: Results 1 - 10 of about 144,000 for googol (0.08 seconds). Wow, it is so fast.

Summer Food

admin — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:01:06 -0700

We can practice our math when we have a picnic. We talked about fractions when we cut up our watermelon. We all made different arrays with rows of corn.

Hours of Sleep

admin — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:00:06 -0700

My mom says we each need a certain amount of hours of sleep. I need 10 hours, my brother who is 5 needs 11 hours and my youngest sister who is 2 needs 12 hours. We figure out what time we must go to bed the night before if we need to get up at 8:00a.m. When school is on we have to get up by 7:00 so we need to go to bed earlier.

Arrays from Home

admin — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:58:54 -0700

Students in our class shared with their classmates ideas of arrays they found at home. Some items they brought — (or drew a picture of) were egg cartoons, cans of soup, package of drink boxes, rows of cookies, graph paper, ice cube tray, stacks of videos, towers of legos, blocks, cookies on a cookie tray, tic-tac-toe board, muffin tins, a checker board, rows of beads on an abacus, other items they brought in that they made into arrays were candies, beads, checkers, marshmallows, noodles, beans, toy cars and trains.

We worked out together the multiplication equation for each idea brought in.

Driving Teachers Crazy

admin — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:57:40 -0700

Every year, on Pi Day (March 14, every time a teacher asks me a question, I have the same answer:"3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841171693993
751058209749445923078164062862089986280834211706798214808!"

No matter what they ask. It's fun for me, and it's an educational annoyance.

Playing School

admin — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:56:34 -0700

I like to play school with my little brother. I use worksheets and my old workbooks to make up questions. I give him a sticker when he completes a sheet. I show him with our abacus how to add, subtract and multiply. It's a fun thing to play.

Card Game

admin — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:55:16 -0700

We like to play Miles Bourne. It's a game my mother used to play as a kid and they still sell it. You deal out cards and try to get to 5000 miles. It's fun. You try to stop the other player by giving them bad cards like a red light, flat tire and speed limits.

Playing Games Using Math

admin — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:54:20 -0700

I've tried to invent a game that I'll have fun with and I'll be able to improve in math. One of the games I invented is called Multiply to Infinity.

To play, you need one ball, a wall and a good brain. The rules are: Bounce the ball off the wall and catch it, which gives you three points. If you throw the ball off the wall and it bounces once on the ground and then you catch it, you get two points. If you bounce the ball off the wall and it bounces twice and then you catch it, you get one point. Then you do it again and multiply the two point totals. Example: two points times three points equals six points. Then, you play again, and multiply the aggregate score with the new score. Example, you had six points and got three more points and your new total is eighteen points. To win, you have to get to INFINITY!!! Well, not really, but you keep playing and keeping score to see who has the most points.

How We Use Math Without Even Noticing

admin — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:39:49 -0700

Since there's no school in the summer you think that we don't use math, right — wrong! Math is everywhere! You use math all the time in sports, when you use the phone, when you read maps and books, when your watching TV — or even when you're buying an ice cream cone.

Think about it. without math the world would be boring. A few days ago me and my friend were playing a board game that needed fake money but we couldn't find the fake money. Money is math too. So without the money we couldn't play the game.

We use math all the time!