Kleberg-opoly

Your final project will be to construct a virtual or physical Monopoly game board. You can pick any theme and here are some ideas. This is a part of the financial literacy unit, so there will be elements of math and values included.
5.10A Personal financial literacy. The student applies mathematical process standards to manage one's financial resources effectively for lifetime financial security. 

Pick a theme-In Monopoly, a playing piece moves around a game board based on a theme and value. It starts with Baltic Place, the least expensive property and goes up to Boardwalk, the most expensive property. Get a piece of paper and decide on your theme. Name the places.

• Victor and Brandon love POKEMON, and there are lots of Pokemon to choose from. Start by picking the pokemon with the least value and make a list going up in value. The same can be done for any other theme. Mrs. Branch loves The Big Bang Theory. My list of properties would be places from the show, like Sheldon's Spot and Comic Book Store.  Make a list of exactly 23 places/things for your board game. Natalie loves Mexico. Hers can be Mexican Monopoly. She can list 23 places in Mexico (Chihuahua, Mexico, Puerto Vallarte, Cancun, Tegucigalpa, Oaxaca). Lesty is a brand new big sister. Hers can be Baby Monopoly. She can name all kinds of fun things about babies (Walking, Sitting Up, Spitting Up, Changing Diaper, Feeding). Lamaria loves making money. She can list some different forms of money (Dollar, Coin, Penny, Rai, Peso). Cortlyn loves cool hairstyles. He can name some hairstyles such as Dreadlocks, Sister Locks, Corn Rows, Flip, Bob). Devin loves rappers. He can list rappers such as Devin the Dude, Kurtis Blow, MC Lyte, Eminem, Biggie, Tupac, Vanilla Ice, Beastie Boys)

2. Now add a value to each space

• Start with the space of least value and go up. Write down the price next to each of the 22 places.

3. Match the playing spaces and images to your theme

• What picture matches your theme? Write them down and find them or draw them (Ask Angel, ,Angela Arianna W. or Roxanna for help!)

Write down all of your ideas and turn it in for today's grade. 

3. TO BE CONTINUED ON MONDAY. HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND!

Kleberg-opoly Continued

5.10A 5.10A Define income tax, payroll tax, sales tax, and property tax.

Today we will continue working on our themed Monopoly board. As you can see, I made a Kleberg-opoly board. It is filled with things that will remind you of Kleberg Elementary. Take your list of 22 things (save your extra for the Community Chest or Chance card) and write them on the Monopoly board. Start with the lowest value of $60 and go up to $500. Be sure that the value matches the list. 

• For example, Passing the STAAR ($600) gets the highest value because that means you get to go to 6th grade. The same goes for Field Day ($600) and the Reward Party($600). However, the First Day of School can be tough so it gets a value of $60. Going to Nurse Ramirez's offices isn't fun either because that means that you are sick. Continue filling in the values.
• Caleb picked DINOSAURS as his theme. Tyrannosaurus Rex is the fiercest dinosaur that ever lived; he should be valued at $600.  Icythosaurus was a gentle dinosaur who looked like a dolphin. He's pretty harmless and gets a value of $60. Use the internet to get your rankings. 
• Devin really loved the New Edition movie and choose this as his theme. He needs a few more New Edition songs and should use the internet to find more of their songs. Their number one song, "If It Isn't Love" should get a value of $600 while, "Home Again" from their Home Again album gets $60.
• Dogs were a really popular topic. You can rank your dogs according to what you like or use the internet to find your list. Use more than one since many site only do a top 10 list. 
• Dominic chose the movie, "A Bronx Tale" which can be fun to monopolize. He should research the movie and list the plot points. Values can start from the beginning of the movie when Calogero doesn't rat Sonny out to the cops ($60) all the way to the end when Calogero makes peace with his father. ($600).

After you have labeled all of your properties on the Monopoly board, get ready to make a list for your Chance and Community Chest cards. Chance cards can be either good or bad. Community Chest cards often give you money. Now you will use what you know about income tax, sales tax, payroll tax and property tax to makes these cards. Make sure that they match with your theme. For example, In my Kleberg-opoly, I can make an Advance to Reward Party card. It matches my theme and matches a card found in the real monopoly. For Community Chest, I can make a You Pay School Tax of $25. It matches my theme and is similar to one found in the real monopoly game. Make 16 Chance cards and 17 Community Chest cards. Be sure to add those four different types of taxes in your Community Chest cards.

Tomorrow is the last day to work on your project so stay focused. You will get your monopoly money tomorrow! 

Toodles!

Mrs. Branch

"Yet Another Day Has Passed Without Me Using Algebra"

Some people thing that you don't use algebra in your daily life. It's a pretty funny saying ( and a great Teacher Appreciation gift) but it isn't exactly true. Today you will see how you use algebra in your daily life.

 5.4 Algebraic reasoning: The student applies mathematical process standards to develop concepts of expressions and equations. 

First lets start with some word problems
And now a joke about finding x, because you know how to do that now!
Next, careers that are linked to mathematics.
And finally a real-life person who was phenomenal at math. Katherine Johnson, a "human computer" crunched numbers in her head, just like many of you do. Without her, astronaut John Glenn never would have orbited the earth!
Take out a piece of paper becaue you have lots of work to do:

• Click the link and do your 10 word problems
• Write down the reason why teachers make students find "x" in algebra problems
• Write down two careers where you can use mathematics and
• Tell me 3 facts about the Katherine Johnson article

Toodles!
Mrs. Branch

Enter Into the Unknown

5.4(B) represent and solve multi-step problems involving the four operations with whole numbers using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity

We haven't done much with this TEK but it is a Readiness Standard and something that you will definitely see next year in 6th grade (since you already passed your Math STAAR).

 In yesterday's staff meeting, Ms. Zbylut said that we should introduce you to the things that you will see in the 6th grade curriculum. Solving for unknown quantities is a peek into your future. Let's try our hand at figuring out unknown variables.

EARN 20 STARS AND THEN SHOW CALL ME OVER TO CHECK YOUR SCREEN

While you wait for me to come over, try to remember the polygonal name for a star. Remember, it has 10 sides. That will be the password to your next unknown quantity assignment.
It is on  ixl.com. There you will find more unknown quantity exercises.

You can finish up with Go Math page__. Complete that page and turn it in for today's grade.

TOODLES

Mrs. Branch

CONGRATULATIONS, YOU ROCKED THE STAAR!

You have done Ms Dennis, your parents and Kleberg proud by passing the STAAR on the first try. Now you have time to focus on some of the other TEKS from your 5th grade curriculum. Let's start with something that you will see next year; scatterplots! Review this information. It goes pretty DEEP, but will give you a nice overview of the topic.
Now take out your math journal and answer these questions:
5.9(B) Represent discrete paired data on a scatterplot
5.9(C) Solve one-and two-step problems using data from a frequency table, dot plot, bar graph, stem and leaf plot or scatterplot

1. What is a scatterplot? 
2. How much ice-cream was sold when it was 11.9 degrees Celsius?14.2 degrees Celsius? 22.6 degrees Celsius? 17.2 degrees Celsius?
3. Do you see a correlation between? If so, what is it?
4. Name 3 points on the Line of Best Fit
5. Before you move on, smart one, can you convert the 4 Celsius degrees in problem #2 into Fahrenheit?  We are in America, by the way. ROUND THE NUMBER TO THE NEAREST TEN. DO NOT USE AN ONLINE CONVERTER. SHOW THE MATH
6. Now look at the Scatterplot of Sea Level Rise. What was the mean sea level in 1997? Make sure that it is on the line of best fit!
7. Now SKIP ALL THAT ABOUT INTERPOLATION AND EXTRAPOLATION (It is so NOT 5th grade!) Go straight to the section about CORRELATION
8. What is a positive correlation?
9. What is a negative correlation?
10. Do birth rates tend to be lower in rich countries? If yes, take a data point off the line of best fit to prove your point.
11. Now, smart one, research the birth rate of America and see where it would fit on this scatter plot. 

All done? Turn in your paper(It will count as 2 grades because of tomorrow's field trip) and navigate over to thinkthroughmath. I cooked up something extra fun over there!
TOODLES!
Mrs. Branch

Building our MATH BRAIN

Oh, so we have a little more work to do to pass our Math STAAR.   We have 12 days to practice our strategies to get ready for the retest on May 8th.

5.3(K) Add and subtract positive rational number fluently
We are going to work on that "fluently" part by drilling adding fractions. It's easy once you remember our strategy. On our STAAR practice we had to add 3 fractions! 
ADDING FRACTIONS
You can do it, don't be afraid. Just remember your strategies.
Madison said, "I used my strategies and I passed the STAAR" so, what is our strategy for adding fractions?

FINISH HIM!!!!

Take our your math journal and work on these 10 problems
Adding mixed numbers is just as easy (and just as fun!)
Take our math journal and work on these too. Turn in this paper. It will count as two math grades because of tomorrow's field trip. 
Then visit our old friend ixl.com to practice some more fractions. Add them fluently!
TOODLES!
Mrs. Branch