August 20, 2019

Announcements:

• Please Return Forms ASAP
• We are looking for parent / guardian volunteers for our field trip to Journey 2050 on September 3rd. If you are interested please contact me at lebowen@cbe.ab.ca
• Meet the Teacher Night August 29th, 2019 6-8 pm
• IPP meetings can be scheduled with me on August 29th, 1-5pm 

Math: 

This week we are doing activities from the Week of Inspirational Math at YouCubed, designed by Jo Boaler, a British Math Education expert at Stanford University.

These tasks aim to give every student an opportunity to think mathematically at their own level. Jo Boaler believes that everyone has the ability to do math! Students also get the opportunity through these challenges to work with peers to expand their mathematical thinking as well as their group communication skills. 

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

In the past students have described this challenge as follows:
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 are learning 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.