Brain matters: Research on ADHD and notes on Neuroscience, notes on upcoming Math test and a couple of fractions games

Matters of the Brain

Let them fidget: Children with ADHD seem to learn better when they're moving http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/adhd-brain-1.4344754 Shared via the CBC News Android App

Thea, and those of you who were wondering about Part 1 from the Class Dojo series on Growth Mindset.  Now that I see it, I think I may have shared this before.  This one introduces the idea of Neuroplasticity and the ability of the brain being able to learn and stretch with some work.

The ability of the brain to grow is looked at a little more in this Class Dojo video on neurons in the brain:  

Here is a little more in-depth material on your neurons.  

In the Links section, I added a great Youtube link on methods for studying; check it out!

Mathematics: preparing for a test

I will be posting a couple of images on Google Classroom relating to some review items for Math (Improper and Equivalent Fractions).  This is a video, which I did two weeks ago and posted on Google Classroom but it summarizes the idea of Equivalent Fractions and the concept of reducing to the Lowest Terms.

This will probably be our last week and a half of working through the Number Sense Unit on matters relating to fractions.  I will then move into another strand which uses fractions, decimals, and percents.

It was either in a post from last week or on Google Classroom, but I posted a link to a game involving the addition and subtraction of fractions.  Here is a review site for Mixed Numbers to Improper Fractions and, I hope, Improper Fractions to Mixed Numbers:

http://www.mathplayground.com/fractions_mixed.html

Here is a game, for you Football fans, for reducing fractions:

http://www.math-play.com/simplifying-fractions-game/simplifying-fractions-game.html

Corrected Math HW and the new Math HW has been added to the Math section of Google Classroom.