{"id":1997,"date":"2018-02-27T15:21:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T20:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/joachia\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2018-02-27T15:21:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T20:21:36","slug":"area-test-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/joachia\/2018\/02\/27\/area-test-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Area Test Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have our area test on Wednesday and we have spent the past 2 days reviewing in class.\u00a0 I reviewed the study guide with the students today and had the students write about everything they have learned about area.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve included the answers to the study guide that I sent home today for homework.<\/p>\n<p>Have your child complete the study guide independently and then you can review the answers together.\u00a0 To help your child study you can do the following things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If there is anything that your child gets wrong, ask them to explain his\/her thinking and you will find that he\/she finds the mistake quickly.<\/li>\n<li>Ask questions like&#8211;Does this makes sense?\u00a0 How do you know you&#8217;re right?\u00a0 Have you thought about this part?\u00a0 These will help guide your child&#8217;s problem-solving.\u00a0 Remember, understanding <strong>how<\/strong> you get the answer is more important than getting the right answer.<\/li>\n<li>We can never eliminate silly mistakes completely, but we can show that what we <strong>think<\/strong> makes sense on a math test by showing our work and writing about what we know.\u00a0 Much of our math now is about students explaining their thinking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will review the study guides with the class before we take the test, so if there are any glaring issues, write a note on your child&#8217;s study guide and we&#8217;ll be sure to go over it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/joachia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2018\/02\/Study-Guide-Answers.pdf\">Study Guide Answers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have our area test on Wednesday and we have spent the past 2 days reviewing in class.\u00a0 I reviewed the study guide with the students today and had the students write about everything they have learned about area.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve included the answers to the study guide that I sent home today for homework. Have <a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/joachia\/2018\/02\/27\/area-test-wednesday\/\">Continue reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/joachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/joachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/joachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/joachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/joachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/joachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/joachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/joachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/joachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}