Miscellaneous Math

Meeting 1:  
Students in this class learn how to work with three different types of graph.  First the student will practice filling out line plots from given information.  Next students will complete a line plot from given information.  The student will next be asked questions about the information on the line plot in  order to practice correctly interpreting the information on a line plot.  There are following two more exercises where students are asked to complete the line plot using data given and then asked to interpret the graph by answering questions about the data represented.  Next students will be given information and asked to complete a pictograph from that data.  The students will next use the same data to complete a vertical bar graph.  Then students will see both graphs as they answer questions about the data represented in the graphs.  This same exercise will then be completed again, creating a pictograph, a vertical bar graph, then answering questions about the graphs.  After completing a third pictograph from a new set of data, students will now make a horizontal bar graph.  Again, questions will be asked about the information represented in the graphs while viewing both graphs.

Meeting 2:  
We will define a factor then examine each number to 50 and identify all the factors of that number.  We will decide if the number is prime or composite based on those factors.  We will then play a game in which knowledge of factors plays a crucial role in developing a strategy.  Students should be familiar with times tables.  There will not be homework assigned.  Student evaluation is done through the performance of the game.  A certificate of completion will be available in the classroom following the class.
Meeting 3:  
This class practices rounding.  First students round to the tens and list the numbers that would cause rounding up or staying the same.  Then students next round to hundreds and list the numbers that would cause rounding up or staying the same. Then students will play a game using a die.  Each number (1-6) rounds to a different place value (tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands, millions).  The student then will round the given number to the place corresponding to the die roll.  The teacher will assist as needed.  If a die is not available, the teacher will roll her die for the student.
Meeting 4:  
In this class we begin by looking at the sentence that states "a fraction" of some number is another number.  We discuss how to find the total (the "of" number) and we practice a few examples of finding this number.  We also learn how to find a fractional portion of a whole number (the "is" number) and we practice solving a few of these problems.  Then students will play a game which continues to practice finding the fractional part of a whole number or the whole number that the fractional part represents.  The game is played by rolling one six-sided die.  Each die number corresponds to a different type of practice problem.  If a die is not available the teacher can roll for the student.
Meeting 5:  
Students will learn to solve problems using the order of operations.
Meeting 6:  
In this class students will learn how to add positive and negative integers.  First a number line is labeled as negative on the left and positive on the right.  The minus sign indicates that when adding negative numbers we move left on the number line.  The plus sign indicates that when adding positive numbers we move right on the number line.  Next a problem appears which is solved by using a star at the starting point then an arrow for each number to be added on the number line.  Then another star appears above the final number along with the correct answer.  This page practices four problems with number lines.  Moving to the next page the student sees another six problems to solve one at a time, step by step, using number lines.  Then there is a game using a pair of dice.  The first die determines the player's move while the second number determines whether the added integer will be odd or even.  The added integer is determined by adding the dice together.  The negative of the second die plus the sum of the two dice will be computed by the player.