Junior Math Contest

Many students in 5B will be participating in the Junior Math Contest this year!  The date is April 15th and it is held at school in the morning block.  Participants have been reminded that they registered back in the fall.  Unfortunately late registrants are not permitted.

If students wish to look at sample questions in advance, they can click the following link and choose the Grade 5 Fibonacci test:
www.mathematicacentrum.ca

Regular class work will be provided for those students that will not be writing the Math Contest.

Thank you!

Fraction Quiz

Students have spent two weeks working on fractions in our Number Sense and Numeration unit.  We will have a quiz to assess fractions on Tuesday, March 31st.

Students should review the following concepts:

• finding and generating equivalent fractions
• comparing and ordering fractions by using number lines and common denominators
• mixed numbers and improper fractions

Unit 8: Fractions and Decimals

Our new unit on fractions and decimals begins on Monday, March 9.  This unit is part of the Number Sense and Numeration strand of mathematics.

Students will:

• model, compare, and order fractions, improper fractions and mixed numbers
• explore equivalent fractions and decimals
• relate fractions to division and to decimals
• estimate decimal products and quotients
• multiply decimals with tenths and with hundredths
• divide decimals with tenths and with hundredths
• pose and solve problems involving decimals and fractions

You can support your child outside of school by:

• examining grocery store prices and calculating rebate after sale reductions
• reading store flyers
• dividing food into equal pieces to be shared and discussing the fractions
• using estimation skills when shopping

Unit 7: Transformational Geometry Final Test

On Friday, March 6th, 5B students will have their transformational geometry final test.  Students should review the final concepts before the test:

• coordinate systems that describe a location - this can refer to a square or a point on a grid.
• translations (slides), reflections (flips) and rotations (turns) of a given figure as well as following three step instructions to move a figure.
• congruent and symmetrical figures and what makes them such.
• figures that tessellate and figures that do not tessellate and testing them out by tiling.