Day 4: Home Field Disadvantage

Agenda: 

1. Read through the syllabus
2. QSSQ 
3. Set up the binders including passing out multiplication charts for all students
4. Home Field Advantage from Yummy Math
5. My favorite no on subtraction 3049 - 1272
6. Practice A (addition and subtraction)

Quote: “If it seems a bit depressing that the most important thing you can do to improve performance is not fun, take consolation in this fact: It must be so. If the activities that lead to greatness were easy and fun, then everyone would do them and they would not distinguish the best from the rest. The reality that deliberate practice is hard can even be seen as good news. It means that most people won’t do it. So your willingness to do it will distinguish you all the more.” - Geoff Colvin

Regrets: The Yummy Math activity will need to be revamped by me or the site itself if we are to continue it. The copy machine did not pick up the win totals of several teams, which led to me orally explaining those wins 10,000 times per class. Disaster. 

Glass Half-Full: Last year 45% of students answered the subtraction problem wrong. This year the number was not as bad although teaching the routine and the problem itself is still something worth while (and probably always will be). 

Link of the Day: I've always had an obsession with studying the size of lines. Now there's a little bit of research on them - at least in grocery stores.