Ms. Mercer's Class Website » Mathematics http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org Find out what's going on... Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:37:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Mathematics for the week of 5/29/2007 & 6/4/2007 http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/06/02/mathematics-for-the-week-of-5292007/ http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/06/02/mathematics-for-the-week-of-5292007/#comments Sun, 03 Jun 2007 05:54:14 +0000 alicemercer http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/27/mathematics-for-the-week-of-5292007/ Here is a review of our favorite sites:

Villainy, Inc. | Maryland Public Television

Tessellations, like Busy Beetles puzzle

more tessellations

and, Fun Brain

This week’s question, make up a question for Math…
 What’s bigger, one quarter of 200 or half of 100?

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Cynthia Lanius’ Lessons: All About Ratios

Cyberchase . Games . Point Out the View | PBS Kids

Math Forum: Types of Symmetry in the Plane


Last week’s question was not answered, so here it it again:
This week’s question is, what is greater, half of 250, or 25% of 500?

]]> http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/12/mathematics-links-for-the-week-of-5142007/feed/ 1 Mathematics Links for 5/7/2007 http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/07/mathematics-links-for-572007/ http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/07/mathematics-links-for-572007/#comments Mon, 07 May 2007 13:14:45 +0000 alicemercer http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/05/07/mathematics-links-for-572007/ Here are our links for Mathematics this week:

  • The GoldenRatio a proportion/ratio dating back to Ancient Greece
  • Pi illustration
  • Tessellations, which are related to transformations which we will be studying

I got some great answers to last week’s math question, but the students did not give a clear explanation of why you came up with your answer. Here is last week’s question, and the answers. See if you can explain it better there.

This weeks question is, what is greater, half of 250, or 25% of 500?

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Here are our Math Links for the week:

Question for the week: Last week’s question did not get answered, so here it is again,
Less than, greater than, or equal? Why?  56 x 24  __  54 x 26

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Question for the week: Less than, greater than, or equal? Why?  56 x 24  __  54 x 26

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  • Play safe cracker to work with negative numbers
  • Converting fractions to percents
    • This week’s question…
    If you have a triangle where one side is 80 degrees, and another side is 70 degrees, how many degrees in the third angle? Tell me how you solved this problem with your answer!

    ]]>     http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/04/13/mathematics-links-for-the-week-of-4162007/feed/ 2     Mathematics Links for 3/19/3007 http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/03/18/mathematics-links-for-3193007/ http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/03/18/mathematics-links-for-3193007/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:39:50 +0000 alicemercer http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/03/18/mathematics-links-for-3193007/ This week we will be studying:

    Last week’s question was not answered correctly. Remember, I need both the area and the perimeter.

    Question:  What is the area of a triangle where the base is 10 cm, the sides are 6 and 7 cm, and the height is 8 cm? What is the perimeter of that triangle?

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    This week’s mathematics question. You must answer in a full sentence or sentences, and explain how you solved the problem. Answers that don’t have that, will not be posted.

    Question:  What is the area of a triangle where the base is 10 cm, the sides are 6 and 7 cm, and the height is 8 cm? What is the perimeter of that triangle?

    ]]>     http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/03/10/mathematics-links-for-3122007/feed/ 4     Mathematics Links for 3/5/2007 http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/03/04/mathematices-links-for-352007/ http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/03/04/mathematices-links-for-352007/#comments Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:18:24 +0000 alicemercer http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/03/04/mathematices-links-for-352007/ Here are this week’s links:

    • Play safe cracker to work with negative numbers
    • Fraction Rythyms from Phil Tulga’s site: Go to the bottom, select the songs button, and pick out some of the drum signals from the Revolutionary War.

    This week’s question, what is 5 + 4 – 3 x 2 ÷ 1?

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    Order of Operations game on FunBrain
    Math question of the week,
    (8 x 37) = (8 x 30) + (8 x 7)
    Is this true? Answer in the comment box below…

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  • Definitions of quadrilaterals
  • Quadrilaterals
  • Quiz on volume
  • Quiz yourself on measurement

    • Question of the week: If you plot the coordinates (2, 2), (-2, 2), (-4, 0), (0, 0) what shape do you get? And, the answer was a parallelogram.  Here is our new question:

    (8 x 37) = (8 x 30) + (8 x 7)

    Is this true? Answer in the comment box below…

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  • Decimals to Fractions
  • Exponents

    • Math question of the week: If you plot the coordinates (2, 2), (-2, 2), (-4, 0), (0, 0) what shape do you get?

    ]]>     http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/02/03/mathematics-links-for-february-5-2007/feed/ 0     Mathematics Links for 1/29/2007 http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/01/26/mathematics-links-for-1292007/ http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/01/26/mathematics-links-for-1292007/#comments Sat, 27 Jan 2007 04:35:37 +0000 alicemercer http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/01/26/mathematics-links-for-1292007/ Coordinate Geometry
  • Decimals to Fractions
  • Division of Mixed Numbers
  • Lines Quiz
  • Prime Numbers and Factors

    • Here is a question for the week, what is the prime factorization of 91? What factors multiply up to 91? Send a comment with your answer…

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    ]]>     http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/01/19/mathematics-links-for-the-week-of-1222007/feed/ 0     Mathematics Link – 01/16/2007 http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/01/12/mathematics-link-01162007/ http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/01/12/mathematics-link-01162007/#comments Sat, 13 Jan 2007 04:43:52 +0000 alicemercer http://nicholasfifth.edublogs.org/2007/01/12/mathematics-link-01162007/ This week we will learn about Prime and Composite numbers and we will learn more about fractions. 

    Here are this week’s math links:

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  • Comparing Fractions
  • Mixed numbers
  • Rounding
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