Math Rigor

Students learn about a particular Native American group from California, changes in local populations, and geography. Content covers social studies, ELA, and math - estimating populations, distances, and trade. Sandra Kaplan's Depth and Complexity icons are identified.

Students will be introduced to musical notation: staff, time signatures, and note/rest duration. Music is used to convey whole, half, quarter, eighth, etc. and related to equations with fractions. If time permits, students can compose their own "symmetric song" . Depth and Complexity icons: Language of the Disciplines, Patterns, Rules, Across Disciplines

Students test their engineering and design skills and show school pride while learning about American history and symbolism. Activities include designing a historical American flags (+ how many ways are there to draw 20 stars?), learning about the Washington Monument (+ obelisk, circular symmetry of the flags), engineering loads, and logbooks.The project culminates with students having built an object which represents the community or school, given constraints. Sandra Kaplan's Depth and Complexi

Students practice writing roman numerals and create a multiplication table.

Students learnt about Pascal's Triangle and create a fraction triangle. The activity culminates with students drawing representation of the triangle depicting that each row adds to one.

One week of daily puzzles with math exit slips which encourage students to learn and discuss problem solving strategies. Teacher's notes are included.