Don’t mistake September for a “review only” in middle school math. This week, 6th and 7th graders used their skills to tackle new math concepts without even realizing it! The 6th graders applied what they had learned about place value and numbers less than 1, (decimal format) to play a card game. Students competed against each other in small groups to shade the correct number of hundredths. They had to choose the “right” card to come as close as possible to 2 without going over. The 7th graders practiced order of operations while putting together a 9 piece puzzle. Their challenge was to solve complicated expressions including exponents and parenthesis...most of the time both were in the same expression! Students worked in groups of 2 or 3 to check each others work and solve the puzzle.
