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Welcome to my math blog! The purpose of this blog is to help you stay informed about our learning and experiences that have taken place during our math class. I have also included links your child (and you) may want to use in order to supplement math learning in 5th grade.

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

So, How Many Seconds Have We Been in School?

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Well, it is the last full day of school.  The last day of regular classes.  The last day of 5th grade math.  So, what better way to end the year than to find out, approximately, the number of seconds we have been in school this year.... and since the first day of Kindergarten.... and how many seconds until school starts next fall... AND how many seconds we have until graduation?!?!?!

I found this activity in The Mailbox magazine.  It is called "Ticktock!" and is from the June/July 2011 edition.  Instead of keeping it a worksheet, I created a slide show and answer sheet.  As we work through the slides, we use calculators to find the answers and check our work with an answer slide.  The kids are always blown away as the numbers generated are larger and larger and LARGER.

This is a fun way to end the math year.

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