Cross country running: Area, perimeter and lengths of the sides of a rectangle.

The cross country running team is practicing on a 250m route.  The route is around the soccer field, and we know that the perimeter is exactly 250m because it was measured on this satellite picture.  We know that the route measured was a rectangle with square angles.

The distance down the rainbow track is 65m.

How long is each side of the rectangle?

What is the area of the soccer field inside the route?

Show your work as a comment on this blog, and leave your first name. 

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http://www.kiec.kh.edu.tw/typing/index.asp

Typing (Keyboarding) Skills

One of the most important tools we use in our lives are keyboards.  They are the interface we usually use to communicate electronically.

How fast can you type?  Are you using 10 fingers?  How can we type faster?

Here is a great list of typing games, which we will use to practice our skills.
http://msrominaborg.edublogs.org/typing-games/

Lets explore and practice!

Visit the Roman Empire!

Today we are going to have a chance to visit the Roman Empire, and write a postcard home!  Below is a link to many Roman Empire resources.  Explore the site and use it for ideas for your postcard.

http://teacher2.smithtown.k12.ny.us/sixthgradeenrichment/roman_empire_webquest.htm

Our schedule for semester 2

Happy New year!  We are excited to see you all and learn about your holidays.
Here is our new class schedule:

5i Semester 2 Schedule

See you on Wednesday!

Posting to our ePortfolios

Ok so here’s the plan!  Today we are going upload two different reflections to our ePortfolios.

1.Type in your grammar reflection which you began to write last class.  I guess that means you might need your English notebook.

2.Raz Kids reflection.  You will take a screenshot of raz kids and use that to write a reflection about your Raz-Kids progress.

How to you take a screenshot?  You open the page you want to take a picture of, then you press “print scrn”  It is above the insert key.   Next, you paste into a graphics program like paint.  You are able to paste to right onto google sites.

Using longitude and latitude

Well since many of us love looking at maps (especially your teacher) we now get to do so in math.  We are studying coordinate grids.  Here is a list of mystery cities.  I have given you their longitude and latitude, can you find which cities i'm listing?  Its a lot easier to use a computer for this, but I would like you to use the Atlas to practice working with coordinates on a plane:

We can use N, S, E and W or
we can use + for north and east
                    -- for south and west

1. N13.9167,  E100.6
2. 49.2833 -123.117
3.  33.9333 , -118.4
4. -22.8667 , -43.3667

5. N 45.5, E 12.3333

6. -41.3333, 174.8

Also for help, check out these Kahn Math coordinate math videos:
http://www.khanacademy.org/video/the-coordinate-plane?playlist=ck12.org+Algebra+1+Examples
http://www.khanacademy.org/video/quadrants-of-coordinate-plane?playlist=Developmental+Math+2