I am excited to see your progress and work with you again! I think we will have some fun and some good times working hard to make sure you can solve lots of math problems and understand what you read. Practice almost everyday will make these topics easier, and I will try to give you practice that helps you learn about things you care about. I am really looking forward to this!
The start of this page has some introductory information, then there is a reading and math assignment, and finally I listed a couple of the things we used before in case you want to use them again. As a reminder, there are lots of ways to share information. Here are the four best ways you can let me know if you are having issues or need help with something in particular.
- You can write it in Google docs,
- your Mom can email (edMe@myedme.com),
- you can text me a picture of your work or an assignment at 571.641.7611,
- or you can write a comment below.
Reading & Math Assignments to Get Started
These two paragraphs describe a virtual field trip you can take to the Inventors Hall of Fame. Read these paragraphs twice because they have lots of information. Then, answer the questions that will ask you to use words from these paragraphs in a sentence you make up. This activity will take about 30 minutes because you may have to think hard to write your own sentence using these words. Afterwards, you can take a virtual field trip!
The museum’s key attraction is the inspiring Gallery of Icons™. Here, you’ll find icons commemorating each of the more than 500 National Inventors Hall of Fame® (NIHF) Inductees we’ve welcomed since our founding in 1973. Hung in a tessellating hexagon pattern inspired by honeycombs and organized by patent number, this is a stunning visual representation of the history of American innovation.
Familiar names include the prolific Thomas Edison, who filed more than 1,000 patents, including the electric light bulb; the high-flying Wright Brothers, who successfully piloted the first powered aircraft; the brilliant Stephanie Kwolek, who invented the life-saving Kevlar fiber worn by police officers and military personnel across the world; and George Washington Carver, who famously developed crop-rotation methods for conserving nutrients in soil and discovered hundreds of new uses for crops such as the peanut and sweet potato.
Click HERE to start the Reading Questions
Take the field trip as a reward! (Longer video 1, video 2)
Math!
Try the Soccer Field Items when you have 30 minutes to think hard to solve these problems! Click the picture below to get started!
Materials from A long time ago, In an age nearly forgotten
Math Games
Some George Mason Computer Science majors built this Multiplication Game that saves all the answers on my company’s servers:
We can make a game like this in about a week. If you have something in math that you want to practice, let me know and we can make it more fun!
Reading About Energy & Life
Here is a link to new Science readings about energy. Try to write the sentences and paragraph the page describes.
If you have any questions or things you need to study, you can list them here!