The kids will receive this tomorrow (Friday) because I knew yesterday was the test and I wouldn't see them today. So they will probably forget about this... which is why I have to enroll y'all!
I have discovered in my years teaching math that there is a special kind of bug that attacks children over Spring Break--the Math Brain Munching Bugs. Reasonably skilled children have returned from Spring Break with sand in their flip-flops and nothing left in the math part of their brain! Ah!
So here is what I gave your students yesterday:
Dear Pre-Algebra Students & Parents—
To keep the Math Brain Munching Bugs away, one problem and one problem only must be done a day.
Think of a doctor’s orders to take a certain amount of medicine at certain times of the day. The Munching Bugs are just as severe.
Children have been known to return from Spring Break with only an empty frame of what their minds used to be!
These problems, done once a day, with their work and steps totally and completely shown and written down should significantly diminish the Munching Bugs’ effect.
So, as you can see, a problem a day is the cure! I put a link below to the sheet I gave the kids and I'll be posting answers here from time to time over the break.
The MBMB Pre-Al 4th Pd Sheet
Thanks for your continued support and have a fabulous break! light and love, matthew
