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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.

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Personal Financial Literacy: Santa's Expenses (Fixed)

Bell Ringer:

We are still working through our benchmark review using Kahoot.

Lesson Frame:


Lesson:

Today, I wanted to focus on fixed expenses; things like rent, water, electricity, etc.  By connecting this entire unit to Santa, I have students' undivided attention!  My students are also enjoying working on spreadsheets.  Today was no exception.  I had precoded the spreadsheet to automatically subtract each entry.  Students LOVED this.  I threw a challenge in, however, when we had to add an entry.  I showed them how to code that entry.  So exciting!!

The spreadsheet started out like this:


We used the following tasks to fill out the spreadsheet:




The final spreadsheet looked like this:


Close:  

Explain why it is important to budget.

Assignment:  Countdown to STAAR 5.1.4





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