Tackling Problem Solving in 5th Grade

While refreshing double-digit multiplication skills, the 5th graders are powering through problem solving by learning to define the problem, identify the knowns, set up the equation and solve.  Remember the units!

Let's be Rational!

8th grade has been challenged to think 'rationally'.   This involves more than thinking clearly!  Rational numbers are numbers that can be written as fractions.  We'll be perfecting fraction operations in Ch. 2.