Websites to keep those maths skills sharp!

http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu/parents/5th-grade/em-at-home/

http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/Gamequarium/Math/Geometry/

Hall of Famous Mathematicians

Fibonacci of Italy

Find out all about him by visiting this website:livepage.apple.com

Pythagarus of Greece

Who was he and what did he do? find out at http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/science/math/pythagoras.htm

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Mary Everest Boole of England

Although there have been many famous women mathematicians we don’t hear much about them. Here is the chance to find out all about Mary.

http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/boole.htm

         

We are Currently working on Unit 9:

1. •Translating between scientific, standard and number and word notation
   

2. •Plotting ordered pairs (coordinates)
   

3. •Plotting points on a coordinate grid and creating transformations
   

4. •Calculating and explaining how to find area / perimeter
   

5. •Drawing congruent line segments
   

6. •Writing both word sentence and equation for area formulas of triangles and parallelograms
   

7. • Finding common denominators and the L.C.D.
   

8. •Correctly matching polygons with their properties