My kids do a few minutes of Khan Academy Math, each day. The other day my 4th grade was like, "I don't get decomposing angles." I went and did my weekly check of their Khan Academy progress and sure enough it stated "struggling with decomposing angles". I was like "huh?" It really should have been a review. But that's okay...it allowed me the chance to pull in some of the Pinterest ideas. Ha!
That's a Schooling at Home Mom for you...I pin so so much, even if my kids are past that skill or haven't reached it. It usually comes in handy, sometime along the road.
Excuse these snapshots (though they really aren't any different then the others I post, probably). However, I wasn't planning on typing up a blog post...
I wasn't really trying to get decent pics.
I take snapshots all day long so I remember some of what we've done. :-)
We included T., the kinder, because he wasn't taking a nap and we are waiting for his Math1 curriculum materials to arrive. :-) He really enjoyed this and picked up the idea of angles really quickly!
You know what, I learned something today! LOL The K'Nex set has pieces to create right, acute and obtuse angles. I was exclaiming over this realization and A., 6th grader, was like, "Well, yeah mom." :-D
Kinder actually used those 3 angles to help him with the snowflakes. He did really really well! He found angles that I didn't notice until he pointed them out! Older kids used a protractor to check those really close angles they weren't sure about. Or, like the 4th grader, just use the protractor to see how many degrees all the angles are because that's just fun. :-D
What's nice about this snowflake is that each child's snowflakes are going to look different because there are umpteen different options for angles!
A. decided to create a craft stick snowflake also. We used it to look for right, acute, and obtuse for kinder.
What I didn't get a picture of was our little dry erase board lesson on decomposing angles. LOL 4th grader and I sat down and I used stickers on K'nex to show various angles and how we can figure out one angle if we know other angle measurements and how to combine smaller angles to make a bigger angle, and so on. Really, he DID know this stuff. The problem was he was stuck on the word "decompose". LOL That's him for ya! Definitely something that happens frequently. It was a fun review anyway! He got back on and flew through the problems in Khan.
