Wednesday March 17

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!!  I hope you have the Luck O' the Irish with you today.  Have you heard of the Blarney Stone?

Kissing the Blarney Stone at Blarney Castle in Ireland (No, it's not Mr. B!)

Since we're in the Irish mood, how about some math limericks?  Can you write one?  Submit one as a comment for ALL to see!

Daily 5:

1.  8560  /  8  =  ____  ("/" means "divided by")
2.  12.28  /  2   =  ____
3.  Round 35,894 to the nearest thousand.
4.  How many lines of symmetry does an equilateral triangle have?
5.  Steve wants to buy a new stereo.  The city that he lives in charges a 5% sales tax, so for every $100 he spends, he has to pay a tax of $5.  If the stereo he wants costs $250, how much tax will he have to pay?

 In Class:

• The "vocabulary" of division: divisor, dividend, quotient
• Dividing decimals by other decimals. 

Assignment:

pp. 171-172 #12-19, #30-33, 35, 37, 46  (Challenge: replace any 3 problems with #40, 44, and 48)