Welcome to NumberSense at College Hills!
This page is our diary of how smart we are getting!
Want to learn more? Click here to go to a really good website for learning about number sense! It goes from Fourth Grade practice (usually marked with one star like this: *), to high school (marked with three stars like this: ***)
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| Wednesday, 11/16/2011 |
Introductions and quick multiplication tricks; we did some sample quick tips: squaring numbers that end with 5, multiplying two numbers together that are pretty close; quick check. |
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| Monday, 11/21/2011 |
Adding numbers in a sequence (practice here), finding the remainders of numbers divided by 2,3,4,5 and 6. Review. Sample test 1 |
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| Monday, 11/28/2011 |
Sample test 2 |
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| Wednesday, 11/30/2011 |
Fractions and decimals! Sample test 3 |
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| Monday, 11/28/2011 Wednesday, 11/30/2011 |
Greatest Common Divisors (GCD) and Least Common Multiples (LCM)! |
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| Monday 12/5/2011 |
Practice test 1 |
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| Wednesday 12/7/2011 |  |
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| Friday 12/9/2011 |  |
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Practice test 2 |
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Today was our "inside team" contest! Congratulations to the three students that made the team, and many thanks to the hard-working students who didn't get there this time...we all learned a lot about Number Sense, and it was a lot of fun! |
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Click here to find out about squaring two numbers that end with a 1, and multiplying numbers that are equal distance from a middle number! |
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Multiplying by numbers that are factors of 100! |
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Today was our Thanksgiving Lunch! Gobble, gobble! |
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Multiplying by numbers that are near 100! |
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Multiplying by Multiplying mixed numbers (numbers with fractional parts)! |
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