Math Focus Update

We have launched a new 'Data Management' math unit! The focus of the unit will be on 'Collecting and Organizing Data.' Over the next few weeks this will be our main focus in math. We will also continue to practice multiplication facts, engage in problem solving activities and solve algebraic equations (missing number questions, questions with multiple operations/steps and including solving equations in parenthesis). 

Grade 4 Learning Goals for the Data Management unit are:
-Create and interpret stem and leaf plots
-Create and interpret double bar graphs
-Compare two data displays by making inferences
-Understand how to figure out a median and what a median tells about a set of data

Grade 5 Learning Goals for the Data Management unit are:
-Conduct a survey, organize, display, and analyze results, and consider the
  effectiveness of the methods used.
-Consider data collection methods such as the type of question asked and issues
  related to bias in order to collect representative data in a survey
-Use broke-line graphs to show trends when one variable is discrete
-Use a thermometer to measure temperature and calculate temperature change
  using both primary data and secondary data