Spread the gift of Comments

I am always impressed with your comments.  You do it frequently and each comment means that the scribes have an audience.  We need to spread the gift of commenting.  I am leaving some links for you to go visit.  Please leave some comments there.  You will make their day and perhaps they will leave you a comment too.  It would be great if you left a URL in their comment box so that they could return the favour.

Please include in the comment that you are a student at Sargent Park School in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. Remember that some of the blogs you will be looking at are done by young students.  Leave appropriate messages behind.  Most importantly please be an audience for these students.

Here are the links to blogs that would love you to leave comments.  Remember to not leave a comment at the first blog only.  Explore the blog and leave comments at different posts.

• http://blogclub-martin.blogspot.com
• http://blogclub-raymond.blogspot.com
• http://blogclub-marylou.blogspot.com
• http://emilysblog3s.edublogs.org
• http://thompson67.edublogs.org 
• http://kidblog.org/MrsRippsClass/ 
• http://littlevoiceslittlescholars.blogspot.com/ 
•  http://minilegends.edublogs.org/ 
• http://8thgradeatstjohns.blogspot.com/
• http://kidblog.org/MrsStupkasClassBlog/
•   http://kidblog.org/MrsMcCabesClass/

• http://trinityfourthgrade.wordpress.com
• http://sites.google.com/a/kinkaid.org/us_student_blogging
•  http://guestclg.edublogs.org/2009/05/13/my-top-five-life-lessons-are/
• http://moturoa.blogspot.com/2009/05/river-bugs-podcast-by-jan-trafford.html

Remember the more you comment the more comments you will receive.  Give unto others..... I know you will do a great job.  Thanks in advance.

Harbeck

Percent Day 2

Here are the 3 Percent Problems for today.

1. Mary has a monthly salary of $1200. She spends $280 per month on food. What percent of her monthly salary does she spend on food? 

2. Your restaurant can seat 150 guests. If 6 tables of 6 are seated, what percent of the restaurant seating is full?


3. My new golf club was $139.50 but it’s last year’s model so I got a 60% discount. What will it cost me?

Some Math Percent Problems

Wednesday Percent Problems.  Complete these three problems and then work on your 2 Minutes to Make a Difference Gallery Walk.

Question 1
You just hired a new baker to work in your bakeshop. In one hour the baker burned 250 chocolate chip cookies. If this represented 21% of the day’s production, how many cookies had you planned on producing that day?

Question 2
A serving of ice cream contains 240 calories. One hundred forty-four calories come from fat. What percent of the total calories come from fat?

Question 3
A store that sells snowboards buys them from a manufacturer at a wholesale price of $57. The store markup is 150%. What is the retail price?

Math Scavenger Hunt Stations

Welcome to a chapter review done in a different way.  In class today we are doing a scavenger hunt.  You will need to complete the question in class and go into the lab to add your answers if you have time.  Follow the following steps:

• Complete the 4 questions in class
• Complete the questions on a large white piece of paper.  Put your name on the paper.
• In the lab find the computer that has the station number on it.
• Type your explanation into the blog post provided
• Be sure to add your Name and Room Number under your explanation

If you do not have time to do this in class please leave comments over the next 4 days. You can leave quite detailed answered there.

Station 1

Station 2

Station 3

Station 4

Math Scavenger Hunt Station 1

What is a perfect square? How do you use a square root? When you answer these questions please include the definitions of perfect squares and square roots.

Math Scavenger Hunt Station 2

How do you know that the following are Right Triangles?  Explain your thinking in words and pictures.  Show your work on a white piece of paper and colour it to explain your thinking

Math Scavenger Hunt Station 3

What do you know about Right Triangles??? Answer the following and see what you understand about right triangles.  For question 14 add in the comments one triangle you have created that is a right triangle and one that is not a right triangle.