![]() Math 6X continues moving forward and I'm so proud of their intellectual and social growth as a group. We truly have a wonderful dynamic in the class. We've been working hard on Listening with Empathy, a skill that is tough in our nonstop world. I researched a variety of rubrics used in colleges and universities to measure classwork and participation, and created my own inspired by what I found and our focus on Habits of Mind. They seemed to embrace the fact that I expected this higher level of discourse from them and evaluated them on it. We talked in our class about how contributing to mathematical discourse looks like:
This unit, we've extended our number line to learn and observe negative numbers. We've looked at relationships with adding and subtracting integers, finding patterns that led us to the algorithms for computing with them. Integer chips and the number line have helped us immensely with making sense of what's actually happening when we add and subtract integers. We started to incorporate Schoology for mathematical discussions assigned as homework, and I loved seeing them making use of structure and critiquing the reasoning of others. They are embracing their unit project - budgeting for their finances with school, a part-time job and all the expenses that come along with being a 6th grader. :) They have to maintain a balanced budget using a variety of tools (GoogleSpreadsheet, Excel, mobile apps, etc.) and figure out if, after a month, will they be in the red or will they have a little bit extra in the end? Here are some of your children's (many) funny questions to and comments for me:
Some questions you might ask your children at home:
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