ELA and Math with Mrs. D

"For never was a story of more woe/ Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

Whole Numbers Operations

Multiply by a two digit number.
1.  Multiply the ones.
2.  Multiply the tens place, using zero as a place holder.
3.  Add the partial products for the final product.
4.  Is your answer reasonable?

A cube shaped cage measures 5 units on each side.  To find the amount of space the  cage occupies (volume)  find the cube of the measure of one side of the bird cage.  Express the amount of space occupied by the cage as a power.  Then find the amount in cubic units.

Volume - length x width x height
Volume  =  5         x    5      x  5
Express the cube of the measure of one side.

53

Find the amount in cubic units.
5 x 5 x 5  = 125 cubic units

 


cube - each side measures 5 units
 
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A 17 Million Digit Prime Number WOW

A new prime number, thought to be the largest ever identified, has been discovered by a professor at the university of Central Missouri. Curtis Cooper used a giant computer network to do the work to find the 17-million digit number - which is a number divisible only by itself and by one.

A 17 Million Digit Prime Number WOW