Mrs. Economou’s Weekly Update
Important Dates to Remember:
Nov. 11th – Veteran’s Day – no school
Nov. 21st – Field Trip to Tiger World – Permission slips will go home soon.
Math: The next two weeks are 2 digits times 2 digits.
I will teach 6 different strategies for 2 digits times 2 digits.
They are graph paper, grid boxes, lattice method, a line method, the typical algorithm
parents know, and the typical algorithm parents know but with the 4 partial products
written down. I am including a few youtube links in case you are curious about these
methods. We will learn one a day. The students will be exposed to all of them in an
attempt to help them truly understand what multiplication is, and to help them find the
best method for them. In the end, they must do the standard algorithm for the EOG, but
they must understand the concrete and conceptual models also.
graph paper method for multiplication (area model for multiplication)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjfjMuf3maA
grid method for multiplication:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMLf6sQLa40
lattice method for multiplication
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3T_NhFlpB0
line method for multiplication
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK_Y0VhjWlY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SZw8jpfAk0
partial product for multiplication
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xmsEtyOB10
ELA: We are going to revisit drawing conclusions or making inferences some more
because although the children can come to a conclusion, they cannot always explain
why. We are also learning about the narrator’s voice: is it first, second, or third person.
And when it is third person, is it objective, limited or omniscient. (It is fine for the
students to say the narrator is revealing no one’s thoughts, one person’s or
everybody’s instead of obj, limited or omniscient. Right now we are just focusing on
the whole idea of a narrator’s perspective.)