Great Start

Students engaged in today's activities with enthusiasm!

Math: 

we are doing activities from the Week of Inspirational Math youcubed.org

Today we did Four 4's. Both classes found this challenging, but worked hard to find new solutions.

Students from 7-3 described their experience with this learning task:
This was a challenging problem, because "it's almost impossible to get some numbers"
They enjoyed that "each answer had different strategies"
"You can be a genius in math, you just need the right mindset"

Homework:
- try to find at least one more equation for four 4's

Science: 

we learned about the difference between Observations (facts made using 5 senses) and Inferences (educated guesses based on observations). 

Students defined these terms and practiced making observations and inferences.

Homework:
- review terms, as tomorrow they will have a brief assessment at the start of class where they have to make one quantitative observation, one qualitative observation, and an inference from a picture.