Question of the Week

We recently started doing questions of the week.  We have a bulletin board at the front of the classroom and we put up a sign with the question.  Under the sign is a tissue box wrapped in construction paper that says Answers, there are little papers and pencils in front of the box.

I didn't get to talk about square root day yesterday - S' Science fair activity for the week took a lot of explanation.  So I will use it as my question of the week.  During circle time we will go over last week's question of the week: "What was your favorite part of the movie Planet Earth?"  I will randomly select one answer and that student will get to choose an origami prize.  Then I will introduce the new question:

Math days!

March 3rd, 2009 was 3/3/09.  

That date is a square root: 3x3=9

A square root is any number multiplied by itself*

K-2: Can you come up with a date this year that is a math problem?

ex. June 3rd, 2009: 6/3/09, 6+3= 9

3rd: Can you come up with a date, past or future, that is a multiplication or division problem?

ex. February 1st, 2002: 2/1/02, 2x1=2

4th-6th: Can you come up with another date, past or future, that is a square root?

*I will give the older kids a fuller and more accurate description of square roots, this simplified idea is for the benefit of all the kids.