Chiaroscuro

Chiaroscuro.  Ask your student what it means in our novel study, The Tale of Despereaux.  We had to look it up in the dictionary and we felt it was a pretty interesting word for the author to choose to use in her story.  We wrote, I wonders as we moved into Book the Second.


'Which is bigger one-half or one third?'
'Which is bigger one-third or one-eighth?'

'How many fourths does it take to equal one-half?'
'How many eighths does it take to equal one-half?'

These are the type of questions we worked on today in math as we become comfortable working with fractions.