December 5th Practice and Play

Today you will take a quick quiz in Achievement Series. And then you will have a chance to relax and play a bit.

To take the quiz go to:

http://www.achievementseries.com/


You have been assigned an assessment randomly. You will need to try both codes of the fallowing codes to access the quiz.



41538

or

98117



Once you have taken the quiz, then proceed to the following page:


http://enlvm.usu.edu/ma/nav/activity.jsp?sid=nlvm&cid=3_2&lid=139


You will play with the coins. When you have played the game a couple of times. Come back to the blog and write up instructions for someone else so they understand how to pick the "bad coin."

Costly Candy

Here are the cost of purchasing two different amounts of candy:

One chocolate bar and three lollipops Cost $9.75

Two chocolate bars and two lollipops Cost $9.50

Answer the following questions in complete sentences. You need to show or explain your mathematics for credit!!!!

Questions:
How much is one chocolate bar?
How much is one lollipop?
How did you find the cost of one lollipop and the cost of one chocolate bar?

Observations from Llamas

O.k. so here is what I noticed. All of you posted and all of you, over time got the correct answer. What did vary dramatically was the depth of the post. For those of you that not only gave the answer but provided organized proof received extra credit. Very nice use of the table.

Many of you used the guess and check method. This was a valid approach to the problem. Many of you gave us no idea of what you thinking or process was, I docked those students points.

Although we have discussed expectations and they are posted on the blog, I will establish a standardized rubric of expectations for your posting which I will post on the main page of the blog and give you a paper copy for you notebooks.

Overall, for our first post I think you got a good feel for how this assignments works and attempted to meet the criteria. nice work!
Ms. L.

Student Posts Llama

Here are some student posts that included student names. This is unacceptable. I have stated and it clearly states on our blog only initials are to be used. I have docked points for using names and re-posted edited versions of these posts.

I believe that you deserve acknowledgement for your work unfortunately the web is not that secure, please protect our privacy and use only your friends initials to make sure everyone is safe and secure.

Student Post:

MR
33 ostriches and 14 llamas
33 x 2 = 66
14 x 4 = 56

66 + 56 = 122

JG

There are 14 llamas and 33 ostriches. P and J found the answer...
14x4=56
122-56=66
66+56=12
66/2=33

4 = llama legs
2 = ostrich legs

Welcome to your Blog!!!

Hi guys,
I will work on getting this snazzed up a bit for you over the next couple of weeks. Here is your Problem of the Week.

Good Luck,
Ms. L.

Priscilla and Jessie just started working at Ms. L.’s farm on the weekends. Their first task was to count the ostriches and llamas. They reported to Ms. L.,

Priscilla said, "I counted 47 heads."
Jessie added, "I counted 122 legs."

"But, how many are ostriches and how many are llamas?" asked Ms. L.

"It's getting dark and I promised your mother’s I'd get you home for dinner. There's no time to count again. You'll have to figure out how many ostriches and how many llamas there are from that information when you get home. Can you give me a call after dinner and let me know your answer?"

How many ostriches were there? How many llamas were there? How did Priscilla and Jessie figure out how many ostriches and how many llamas there were? Post your number for each animal and explain fully how they reached their counts. You need to be clear so anyone can follow your process and get the same answer you did.