Week of April 9th

A big thank you to all of our volunteers who joined us for Aggie Days this week. The students had a wonderful time learning all about the agricultural climate in Alberta and gaining an appreciation for the hard work that it takes behind the scene to provide food for us to eat. 

In Math this week was to learn how to skip count to divide. We discovered how to skip count on a number line, skip count using our fingers and that we can divide by sharing the total number of items and the number of times in each set. 

To use a number line we considered, what number is being divided? (20) How can you tell from the picture? (20 is where the arrows end) What number are we dividing by?(4) How can you tell? (4 is the size of the jump) So, what is the answer to 20 ÷ 4? (5) How can you tell from the picture? (the number of arrows) 

 

We also discovered that skip counting can be performed by  keeping track of the number of times you skip count, using fingers. For example when skip count by 5s to 20 aloud. The sequence should look like this: We want to think of how many fingers we have up ?(4) How many numbers did we say? (4) So, 20 divided by 5 is 4. 

Our last strategy we used was to skip count with our fingers by picturing the numbers at the ends of our fingers. For example, to calculate 12 divided by 3, we skip count by 3s, starting with the thumb. The number 12 appears on the fourth finger, so 12 divided by 3 is 4. What is 15 divided by 3? (5) Point out that when skip counting by 3s, 15 appears on the fifth finger.