Math: Terms 1-2 Super Pack (Full Year)

Purchase a discounted year (32 weeks) of classes! This includes:
 
Add and Subtract with African Forest Elephants (4 weeks)
Unlike their smoother relatives, forest elephants have many cracks and crevices in which water becomes trapped after bathing. Because this is how they maintain 75% of their body temperature, it's vital that they know exactly how many wrinkles they have, even when some new ones appear or other ones disappear. Let's get adding and subtracting!
 
Through in-class activities and independent practice, students will:
Use the standard addition algorithm and a place value workspace to solve addition problems involving up to three-digit addends
Use the standard subtraction algorithm and a place value workspace to solve subtraction problems involving up to two three-digit numbers
Choose efficient strategies for solving addition problems with 3-digit numbers
Choose efficient strategies for solving subtraction problems with 3-digit numbers

Mountain Gorillas Can Multiply (4 weeks)
Mountain gorillas can get really heavy: males get up to 398 lbs (180kg) and females can weigh as much as 200 lbs (90kg). To keep track of their weight as they're growing, it's imperative that they know how to multiply.
 
Through in-class activities and independent practice, students will:
Explore the commutative property (3 x 5 = 5 x 3) and apply various strategies to solve double-digit multiplication problems
Find common multiples of two factors (2 - 12)
Identify factors of numbers to 100
Use partial product strategies to build arrays and solve multiplication problems using the distributive property
 
Dugongs Do Division and Multiplication (4 weeks)
Dugongs (sometimes referred to as sea cows) eat seagrasses from the sea floor. To be sure they're eating the right amount of seagrasses, they employ the essential skills of division and multiplication.
 
Through in-class activities and independent practice, students will:
Choose friendly equations (partial quotients), a rectangular array, and the distributive property to mentally solve multi-digit division problems
Solve multi-digit multiplication problems by creating friendly partial products represented on an open array
Solve multi-digit multiplication problems by representing optimal partial products on an open array
Compose arrays and use the distributive property to solve multi-digit multiplication problems
 
Polar Bears Practice Place Value (4 weeks)
When figuring out what a polar bear is, it's essential to place them in the right category. Polar bears are actually classified as marine animals and are the only bear species to be considered as such. Who knew, right?
 
Through in-class activities and independent practice, students will:
Use groups of thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones to build and pack amounts of objects and determine totals (up to 9,999)
Create decimal numbers using place value dials and learn the relationships between powers of ten

Fin Whales Perform Fractions (4 weeks)
Fin whales are the second largest whale species growing up to 85 feet (26 m) long and 160,000 pounds (72.3 metric tons). To keep themselves nice and healthy, they have to eat a lot of fish. Sometimes, they have contests to find out which of them eats the most fish, and the judges use fractions to find the winner.
 
Through in-class activities and independent practice, students will:
Explore different contexts of money and time to build fraction equivalencies less than 1
Explore different contexts of money and time to build fraction equivalencies less than 2
Use a table to compare grade 5 fractions with unlike numerators and unlike denominators

More Fractions with Mountain Plovers (4 weeks)
When the Mountain Plover lands on the prairie, it practically disappears. How? By camouflage. To be sure they know how to disappear just right, they have to have the perfect proportion of colors. So, they fix the problem with fractions.
 
Through in-class activities and independent practice, students will:
Use a table to compare grade 5 fractions with unlike numerators and unlike denominators
Use blocks to build fractions in a variety of ways
Multiply fractions by whole numbers using blocks as a model for a strategy based on multiples of unit fractions
 
Sunda Tigers Study Time, Money, and Graphs (4 weeks)
Sunda tigers are the smallest tigers and they love water! Sometimes, they find coins in the water—if only they could count them—and other times they spend so long in the water that they would like to know exactly how long. Help the Sunda tigers study time, money, and graphs (for finding the best time of day to swim) in this fun class!
 
Through in-class activities and independent practice, students will:
Solve elapsed time problems using addition and subtraction
Identify all American coins (penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar, dollar)
Add different coin quantities to add up to $10 USD
Organize and represent numerical data on a line plot to a quarter and eighth unit scale, and use fraction operations to interpret these line plots to answer questions about the data
 
Geometry with Great White Sharks (4 weeks)
Did you know Great White sharks can smell blood from 5km (3.1 miles) away, swim up to 56 kph (35 mph), and can sense electrical fields in water? They can! And they only can because they know geometry. 
 
Through in-class activities and independent practice, students will:
Students measure angles by using the relationship between rotation and angle measurement
students construct different types of triangles, quadrilaterals, and polygons, and use a ruler and protractor to measure side lengths and angles
Students represent hierarchical relationships as they classify geometrical figures that have up to 3 dimensions
 
Day and Time: Fridays, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM ET
Bundle Duration: 32 Weeks
Dates: September 20, 2024 - May 30, 2025
No class on the following dates:
November 29 (Thanksgiving Break)
December 20, 27, January 3 (Christmas Break) 
April 28 (Spring Break) 
Recommended for: Ages 9+ / Grades 4-5
Teacher: TTK Faculty
Required Materials: 
DreamBox math app*
 
*There is an included additional $45 charge for DreamBox, which is a one-time purchase for the entire school year. Here at The Thinking Kid, we utilize the DreamBox Math App to enable our students to practice math skills outside of the classroom. DreamBox engages students through math games to test their proficiency in math concepts discussed in class. DreamBox access is essential to student success in our math program. If you have previously purchased DreamBox, please contact us at miriam@thethinkingkid.org