The Blake School Hopkins Campus Second Grade Web Site

Mathematics

Math In Action
The students have been working on studying 2D and 3D geometric shapes - primarily rectangles and rectangular prisms. In class, the students worked together to build rectangular prisms out of rectangular "faces." They explored different sized notecards to build the boxes - click on the links below to see their work: Ms. Page's Class

Math Workbook and Math Games
Pearson Success Net
The second grade math program we use is called Investigations and it is published by Scott Foresman. There are many features on the web located at: Pearson Success Net.
To login to use: username-2Burton password-gobears.
Once logged in you can look at the math workbook. It will help share language and skills introduced in our curriculum. It also has a section for math games.
Instructions for many of the math games we have learned this year are also available.
There is also a section with a couple of computer programing activites called LogoPaths, a computer programing activity and Shapes where you can play geometry games and puzzles.
Please check them out.

Using our birthdays as data each second grade class class created a birthday bar graph from our fall collection of self portraits.

View the Birthday Bar Graph from Mr. Burton's room or the Birthday Bar Graph from Ms. Page's room.

Here are seven links to mathematical software or web sites your child (and you!) might enjoy.

• Reckon! via Tom Bretl's math games download page: http://web.me.com/tcbretl/Software/Math.html
• Hurkle is online at the AIMS puzzle page. AIMS stands for Activities Integrating Math and Science.
• Pico Fermi Bagels is online thanks to Mr. Reese, a high school teacher in Wisconsin. Go Badgers!
• Daily Sudoku for Kids needs no further explanation. Puzzles vary in difficulty each day...
• Aunty Math offers a problem solving challenge every month or so with three levels of difficulty and is sponsored by the DuPage Children's Museum.
• TuxMathScrabble is a math version of the classic word game "Scrabble" (Trademark of Hasbro,Inc) which challenges kids to construct compound equations and to consider multiple abstract possibilities.
• Balloon Ride is a different take on the ancient Chinese math game NIM. Good luck!
  

Pocket Day Data
Pocket Day is one of our regular classroom routines. It is a routine we will start shortly. Check back on this routine later and then ask your child to explain Pocket Day and this data to you.

Symmetry Museum
During our Shapes and Symmetry unit we created many examples of symmetry with pattern blocks and geoblocks. A few students cannot stop examining symmetry. Here is a link to some of the symmetrical shapes they have been creating:
SYMMETRY MUSEUM

Worksheet Generator
Mr. Druskin, our fabulous computer specialist and ex-second grade teacher, has created an addition/subtraction worksheet creator. This Excel spreadsheet will allow you to print worksheets providing your child with practice using the same addition strategies (and vocabulary) we use in second grade. This worksheet generator includes a tab at the bottom allowing the user to create worksheets with problems involving addition or multiplication facts. Within each of those two groups there are subsets listed on the left to help you create worksheets to work on specific facts i.e. doubles facts. You need to "enable macros" on your Excel program for this document to work.

Tens Go Fish and Turn Over 10 are two card games that reinforce combinations of 10 with two or more addends. Close to 20 provides practice adding two or more numbers. Reckon is an open-ended operations practice game where you add, subtract, multiply, divide or otherwise manipulate four numbers between 1 and 15 to equal numbers on a tic-tac-toe board. Reckon is also downloadable for your computer, both windows and mac, at Tom Bretl's website listed above. You played a sample game on Back-to-School Night. Directions are written on each game sheet.

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