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Thursday, September 24, 2009

PowerPoints and Word Problems

Tonight for Teacher Topic, you will be writing and solving TWO word problems. One should use Greatest Common Factor to be solved, the other should require the use of Least Common Multiple to be solved.

Today, Ms. Dickie shared her PowerPoint on Plate Tectonics. You can watch it again below. Tomorrow, you will receive more information about the presentation that you will be doing for the class. Please think about the topic that you would like to learn more about. You may choose from the following topics:
Earthquakes, mountains, volcanoes, deep-sea trenches, mid-ocean ridges, or a student proposed topic with prior teacher approval.


Plate Tectonic PPT Presentation

3 comments:

  1. here is a G.C.F word problem:
    at the martian zoo there are 24 zoodoos, 30 randars and 36 pojos. If The zoo wants to put the same number of each animal in each cage what is the most number of cages that the zoo will need?
    and here is an L.C.M word problem:
    If the martian zoo buys a new zoodoo every 25 days, A new randar every 10 days, and a new pojo every 2 days. How often will the zoo buy one of the animals all on one day?

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  2. i loved this PPT, and the way Mrs.Dickie presented it made it even more interesting! :) keep up the good work!

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  3. I agree with zoe it was very interesting

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