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Extra funny gif today! Sorry that so many of you struggled with the homework. I thought that would be easy review. There are a lot more people with a lot more trouble with fractions than I am used to. That is okay.

Sometimes, when a comment feels like criticism, it is really easy to get defensive, and try to give reasons or fight back. What I am going to say sounds like criticism, but it is not; it's concern:

Fractions are elementary school material. If you haven't learned them yet, you should feel that it is urgent that you do, because you will have an easier time of things once you understand them. You are not dumb, and you are not bad at math, for not having learned fractions yet. If anything, you are impressive for being able to keep up in math classes without understanding fractions. But now it's really time to learn them. Often, just learning fractions is the difference between feeling good or bad at math.

There is an entire website devoted just to this! HelpWithFractions.com
So let me know if you need help.

Dylan, Esme, and Iggy need real work, everyone else needs review

Class/Homework

If you are part of the group who knows fractions, please work in a group on the patio on the following: Statistical Questions

If you need help on fractions, lets start with this.
Then do this exercise. If you need help, you can read this.

On Monday, we will spend most of class doing two things; I will check your data journals, and you will answer a few questions on mean, median, and mode in a Google Form. It will be classwork, but we'll call it a quiz so that parents will be satisfied that you are sufficiently tested :)

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