Monday, August 20

What a great 1st back, and a way to start off Week 2!
I am very proud of all of you, today!

I was so impressed with the prime factorization that I saw today.

We started with three numbers for bellwork and you needed to list ALL the numbers it was divisible by
for example: 54,064 is divisible by 2, 4, & 8.

Then we jumped in on the Factoring of products and took notes in our Math Modeling Binders.

- First we identified factors and products.
- Then we defined Prime and Composite Numbers.
- Next we went through the steps for Prime Factorization
- After we completed a factor tree as a class we discussed and defined Prime Factorization.
- We did another practice, and students completed an Exit Slip for the Prime Factorization of 24.

Tomorrow we will look at the solution to this Exit Slip, along with some of my Favorite Wrongs!! I love when students give me "Teachable Moments"!!

 Did you know that we learn more from our mistakes then when we do something right the first time????

As we did today, we will continue to cover Divisibility Rules for bellwork, and I would like for you  to be practicing these at home. So look for homework tomorrow :-)