Don't rest just as it's the holidays!

Congrats, you've made it to the holidays. 1 term down, 3 to go.
In the meantime just a little reminder, don't forget to get on to the web and do your Mathletics.

Focus on Basic facts, Fractions, Decimals and Percentages.

Equivalent Fractions

Here is a link so you can continue to practice equivalent fractions.

http://www.abcya.com/equivalent_fractions_bingo.htm

Decimals - Place Value

Today's lesson focusses on decimal place value.
It is important that we understand exactly what each digit is worth in a decimal number if we are to achieve our final goal of converting decimals into fractions.
Have a read through the images below as these were taken from today's lesson to reinforce your learning. Happy revision.

Place Value

As we work towards finding place value of decimal numbers, we first need to reaffirm our place value knowledge.
It is important to see place value for exactly what it is.

Place value = Where the number is.

Face value = What the number looks like.

Total Value = What the number is worth.

So in the number 583 340
                              --
I have underlined the 8.

The place value is: Tens of Thousands
The face value is:  8
The total value is: 80 000

What's my number?

Today in maths class we began the lesson by having you think multiplicativly.

The object of this activity is very simple. The number at the top can be made by multiplying together two numbers and the the number at the bottom can be made by adding together the same two numbers.

An example of this is:

  6
-----
  5
The 6 can be made by 2 x 3, while 5 can be made by 2 + 3

See if you can solve the following problems below

  56
-------
  15


  21
--------
 110


  84
--------
  19

  132
--------
   23

Converting decimals to fractions and vice versa

This week our focus is on converting decimals intofractionss and vice versa.
To begin with we have to establish what the WALT is

We also need some base knowledge:

1 whole = 1
1/2 =.5
1/4 =.25

We also need to know about decimal place value.

We are already aware that the place value columns are

the ones
the tens
the hundreds
the thousands
the tens of thousands
etc

When working on the other side of the decimal point it is almost the same, but with some subtle differences.
The column directly after the decimal point is the tenths, followed by the hundreths and thousandths etc, as shown in the graphic below.

This is a good point to pause and ensure we all understand this, and soon we will move on to converting decimals to fractions.

Mathletics (24 - 30 March)

Well done to the following students who recorded over 1000 points in Mathletics last week. Keep up the great work!

Stella 1544
Danea 2490
Adam 1030
Caroline 3040
Ethan 1553
Ainsley 1050
George 1860
Holly 2584
Lucy 1895

To the rest of you in M5. Hopefully we see you on this list next week, as there are 28 students in our class and 9 made the list for over 1000 points. That is only slightly more than 1/3 of our class.