Boundary Breaker: When is the last time you were a scientist? What did you discover?
Today was a heavy math day as we aimed to finish up Chapter 1 on patterns in place value before the break. Students played Some Sum and organized digits to create number pairs resulting in the largest and then smallest sums. They also discovered the Commutative Property of addition as they found all 4 combinations that could result in a winning total. We then showed our learning on the chapter as a whole with out skills check-up.
We finished by introducing part 2 of our exploration unit, Exploring through Problem Solving. We began by reading Ada Twist: Scientist by Andrea Beaty (cutest book ever!) and looking at the scientific method as a problem solving tool. Today we went through the steps an conducted a class test to see how many random numbers a second grader could hold in their brain without forgetting. Check out our format here. Five was the lucky number that discredited all of our confident hypotheses.
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