This week in Math we began a Math unit about percents, and started by watching the short video, "If the World Were a Village." We took the data shared in the film and represented it in different ways: tables, 100 blocks and circle graphs.
This activity served as an introduction to the fact that percents are ratios out of 100 and can be represented under many different forms.
Please ask me what information was most surprising and which one made me think the most. (Mme's biggest takeaway was that the world's resources are not equally divided and there are way too many people who go daily without having enough food to eat.)
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Today in Français, we started watching the film, "Les Pee Wee." This will wrap up the hockey unit we've been working on for the past 2 months. After watching the movie in class, students will be asked to write about their favourite scene and to give their opinion about 2 or 3 scenarios that happened in the story.
A note: The movie is in French and is being shown with French subtitles. There are, however, a few English 'gros mots' (swear words) that are spoken (in context) throughout the film. We discussed this as a class before the beginning of the film so that students will not be caught off guard when it happens. The film was previously one of the films shown at Cinémental and has been approved for school viewing. It is rated PG (G in Quebec).
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