Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Integrating Regular 6th Grade Math with Accelerated Math

This Wednesday (9/10) is going to be an adventure! We started teaching about Order of Operations on Tuesday. The sixth graders had an assignment on it, and tomorrow they will have a reinforcement of that lesson during Accelerated Math. Each student will get an opportunity to work through a few examples in class, and then they will do an objectives practice over six other questions. If they pass this one, then they will have passed this objective. I'm confident that most, if not all, of the students will do well on "order of operations." Correctly understanding the order of operations is foundational in math. It is important not only for sixth grade math, but for all of the remaining math classes your children will take throughout their educational days.

I'd love to hear how they respond to this special arrangement (integration) of math class. You can leave a comment if you create an account for yourself.

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