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Tuesday
How to Check Your Math Work: Suggestions for Students
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Thursday
Help Students Learn to Manage Their Time
Being involved in activities definitely reduces time for schoolwork, but it doesn't mean that schoolwork can't get done. Students can learn to manage their time, but they need to be shown how. There are many of us who, as adults, may not manage our time very well. And if a parent is not great at managing time, how will he or she teach their children to manage theirs? Even when adults are good at managing time, they don't always think to teach their children how to do what they do.
If their chunks of time aren't big enough, students need to find other ways to complete their work. One of the strategies I share with students is to take backpacks and homework supplies in the car with them. When one of my three children had practice (they're all beyond this point now), the others brought any work they had to do. Sometimes homework was completed sitting on a blanket in the grass or sitting in the bleachers. Sometimes it was completed in the car while we waited. Do distractions occur when homework is done this way? Yes, they sometimes do. But, to me, using that time to work was better than losing an hour or two (or more, depending on travel time!) and then having to do everything after we got home (especially if we still had to have dinner!)
I always suggest that students put upcoming tests on their calendars and then work backwards to schedule their study time....so they could label the driving time as study time. Projects should go on the calendar too, so students can again work backwards to fit in the necessary time to complete them.
The great thing about a week at a glance like this is that students don't have to depend on someone buying them a planner or printing out pages for them. They can write out their own schedule on their own paper and design it any way they'd like. Then they can post in it their room, on the frig, or keep it in a school binder.
As I mentioned, in the early days, I didn't quite know how to respond to students who didn't have time to do their work. But now, this is something I teach every year, to help avoid those "I didn't have time because...." statements :-)

Sunday
Fall Freebie!
Hard to believe that we're approaching the end of October!!
I made this cross number puzzle to use with fast finishers over the next couple of weeks:-)
Hope you can use it!
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Here are a few other fall resources from my store:
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Click to see on TPT |

Friday
Problem of the Week, #14
All problems can now be found here, on my new site: http://www.cognitivecardiowithmsmm.com/problem-of-the-week.html
This one's a quick Halloween-themed logic puzzle. I hope you can use it!
This one's a quick Halloween-themed logic puzzle. I hope you can use it!
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Monday
Problem of the Week, #13
All problems can now be found here, on my new site: http://www.cognitivecardiowithmsmm.com/problem-of-the-week.html
Time for Problem of the Week, #13!
Time for Problem of the Week, #13!
Part A of this week's problem asks students to write an algebraic equation for a situation (students will need to use 2 variables). In Parts B and C, they need to substitute the given information into their equation to solve.
An extension for students who finish early - ask them to "create" a bracelet that will cost a specific dollar amount.
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Sunday
#MathDates for 9/26 - 9/30
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