Weekly Class Newsletter

PurPose:

This lesson is to provide students with al

hands on and cooperative learning
experience in the process of collecting,
analyzing, and interpreting data, and to
improve decision making skills through
the use of probability.
[THE WEEK AHEAD]

I will have a lesson plan for the students

Subject: Math next week about the five senses.
(Classifying, counting, rounding, graphing,
ratios, probability, estimating)
Charts and graphs are not only valuable
instruments for communicating data
quickly and simply, they can be tools for
stimulating discussion, and aids in
promoting mathematical thinking.
Graphing activities for elementary
students should include more than fixed
displays of information. A hands-on,
relevant lesson can be a successful way of
teaching concepts which students are
more likely to retain. M&M Graphing and
Probability can be as simple as making a
pictograph, or as involved as predicting
and determining probability.
[REMINDERS]
Students need to bring in a small bag of
M&M's, pencil, paper, crayons or
markers for the Math lesson. The
materials for the lesson of the five
senses will be due on a later time. Ill
send a reminder with the students.
VOCABULARY
Classifying- To assign things to
categories.
Counting- Taking a particular thing into
consideration in a total. reducing the
digits in a number while trying to keep
it's value similar. Reminder students must read at least 30minutes each
Rounding- reducing the digits in a day.

number while trying to keep it's value

similar. Ms. Gonzalez

Graphing- A diagram used to indicate

relationships between two or more
variable quantities.
Ratios- A proportional relationship
between two different numbers or
quantities.
Probability- the likelihood that an event
will occur, expressed as the ratio of the
number of favorable outcomes in the
set of outcomes divided by the total
number of possible outcomes.
Estimating- To make an approximate
calculation of something.