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What’s New on the website – Update 8/2020

— New professional development articles —

There are a few new items that have been updated on the website. Four new professional development articles now are available. The Art of Writing Story Problems, Organizing Around Landmarks of Ten, and two articles focusing on Fractions and Decimals are to be found in the Professional Development Articles section.

— New Curriculum Materials —

Did you know that there is 150 yards of wool inside every professional league baseball? That’s the length of one-and-a-half football fields long. To quote one fifth-grader while we were unpacking the problem with the class, “No wonder it hurts when it hits you!” A new Multi-Step Rich Task title Sheep to Baseball has been added to the collection along with original set of topics involving rubber duckies, colored markers, pigs, corn, and wheat. All of these tasks are written for fifth graders but can also be used with adaptations with 4th or 6th graders.

— New Fifth-Grade Unit Materials —

During the 2019-2020 school year, I had the pleasure of working weekly with three fifth-grade classrooms at Academia Cesar Chavez in St. Paul, MN. I got to co-teach along with the three teachers. I crafted the problems the students worked with. Those curriculum files are now available for you to look at. Feel free to adapt them or use to generate ideas for your own class. The COVID-19 Pandemic interrupted the last quarter of the school year so the units are incomplete. The hope to continue working with the fifth-grade team this fall is dashed to hopes for further refinement are in abeyance. Any revisions will automatically appear in the links to which you now have access.

— Missing Fourth Grade Unit –

The link setting wasn’t set properly on Unit 1 of the fourth-grade curriculum materials. Someone was able to download them off the drive. I have found the back-up files and restored the files.