Week 3, Can you believe it?!?

Can you believe it? We have been in school for 3 weeks already!  All these wonderful 6th graders are settling into the routine of our class.  They are doing great with the organized binder and they continue to practice working together in their groups.
This week we worked with rectangular arrays and with factors.  We used pennies to build all the arrays we could that used 36 pennies, then we saw that the dimensions of those arrays corresponded to factor pairs on a Multiplication Table (1*36,  36*1,  2*18,  18*2,  3*12,  12*3,  4*9,  9*4,  6*6). We discovered that all perfect squares have an odd number of factor pairs.  We also learned about prime and composite numbers and that the number 1 is neither prime or composite, it is a UNIT!  I sang a song about "One is the Loneliest Number" (I am an okay singer, but certainly not a professional).

Roxie and Kaitlyn work on making arrays with pennies.

Our classroom groups are working together well to share ideas.

We will have our first chapter test on Thursday September 10th.  I am confident that these 6th graders will do their best on this upcoming test.  

In other news, I will be absent on Friday Sept 11.  Our class will continue with the lessons in my absence.