Nov 22, 2014

Division- A Tale of Two Methods

Here are two great movies that explain the place value sections and expanded notation method for division!



Nov 21, 2014

3rd Mystery Skype

We have completed our third Mystery Skype this week!  When I was contacted by the teacher in Illinois I thought to myself, oh this is going to confuse them a bit being so close to home.  But our class did great.  We were organized with our maps and very focused on discovering where they lived.  We managed to guess their state in only a couple of questions!

The funny part of the Skype was when the other class asked where we were from, they didn't ask are you in Wisconsin.  They asked "ARE YOU PACKERS FANS?"  We all had a good laugh about that one. Especially if you remember the last football game between the Bears and the Packers!!

Nov 2, 2014

Multiplying 2 digit by 2 digit numbers

There is a very good video explaining 2 digit times 2 digit numbers using the area model at Learn Zillion.  Go to www.learnzillion.com and use the code LZ1879 to view the 2 digit times 2 digit movie.

Here is another movie about multiplying 4 digit numbers times one digit numbers, also at www.learnzillion.com  .  Use the code LZ1878 to view the 4 digit times one digit movie

Multiplying 1 x 2 Digit Numbers