On Wednesday we worked with writing expressions that dealt with addition and subtraction. This was a bit tricky to make sure the expressions always "said" what we were trying to achieve mathematically. For instance, if we wanted the sum of h and w minus 11, students wrote "(h+w) - 11".
On Thursday we continued writing expressions but threw in some multiplication. The sixth graders seemed to breeze right through matching expressions like "36lj" and "6 x 6 x l x j" and even played a game of BINGO! We discussed the vocabulary words "variable" and "coefficient".
On Friday, we really kicked it up a notch and brought in division. Let me tell you, nothing can stop these kids! We were writing quotients and fractions and even using parentheses to have a quantity in the denominator! Check out these slides from today!
