Hi Parents,
Tonight's math homework is challenging. We just started working on fractions, tonight the family letter is coming home. DON"T throw it away. It has the answers to the homework on the back and helps explain the concepts we are teaching.
The main idea for the homework tonight is taking a whole group and splitting it into equal groups representing fractions. For example, if I had 21 students and I wanted one third of them working on a page in their math book, I would split the 21 into 3 equal groups, and how many is one of those three groups. The biggest idea I want the students to get is that the denominator tells the students how many equal groups to split their whole into, the numerator (top of the fraction), tells how many of those groups you want to count. I hope that helps.
Not a lot of big news, just remember CRT testing next week. We test Monday in the morning and afternoon, Tuesday in the afternoon, Wednesday in the morning and afternoon and Thursday in the morning. Please make sure they get a good night's sleep and they eat breakfast. We will provide snacks before each test session.
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