Archive for April, 2008
Give One, Take a Lot More: Using Benchmark Fractions or Estimating Them
Create one example of using benchmarks or estimation and fractions (see Example 8-9 on page 186 in the Burris text) that you could use in your classroom. Don’t have your book handy? No problem! Here’s Example 8-9:
Class, we have been studying different countries. Look at the flags that we have hanging [...]
8 Crates
Take a minute to view the video reading of 6 Sticks, which I recently recorded. I have added captions to correspond with many of the pages in the text. You may need to pause in order to read these.
Let’s collectively compose 8 Crates, which will follow the same format as 6 Sticks.
Write one page which would fit into [...]
