Algebra Game! (Algebra's not SCARY! )

BBC's Late Delivery algebra game:http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/mathsfile/shockwave/games/postie.html

Math Glossary and Dictionary Online

Here is an online math glossary that you might find helpful for tonight's homework.
http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/qr/s/sum.html

And for the glossary work (for your heraldry packet) dictionary.com is a good resource.

Additionally, the library has encyclopedias available (Look for the "access at home" link to get passwords for any dictionaries and encyclopedias.)

http://www.ucls.uchicago.edu/schools/middle-school-rowley-library/index.aspx

Mode, Median, Mean Game

Dear Students,

Here is a fun game to practice Mode, Median, and Mean.

Tell me what you think of it!

Mode, Median, Mean Game

Medieval Harvesting Scenes - Peter Bruegel

Harvesting Hay - a scene to help us picture the boys' work in The Once and Future King

and a link to Metropolitan Museum of Art's page on Bruegel's The Haversters (1565)
Havesters

Long division games for practice at home

Traditional, "Daddy, Mommy, Sister, Brother" method:
Snork's Long Division

Partial Quotients Method:
Penquins Sharing Apples

DIVISION

Here are two helpful videos reviewing the traditional "bring down" method for long division and the highly efficient, but less well known, partial quotients method.

The first is a silly video and mnemonic device to help remember the steps of the traditional "bring down" method:
"Daddy, Mommy, Sister, Brother"

The second shows the thinking and steps behind the partial quotients technique:
Partial Quotients