Mini Math assignment

By Anonymous -
This note is going to be going home tomorrow.
September 24, 2012
Dear Parents and Guardians,
This week I am asking the students to look for 10 large numbers from newspapers, magazines and the internet.  Students might be able to find large numbers in headlines and stories.  In Grade 5 large numbers would include numbers up to the millions, however, if a student finds a number in the billions that would be fine too. 
I would like them to try and find large numbers in both number and word form.  For example, they might find 608 million written in the number and word from, word only form or they could find the number written in standard form, (608 000 000). They are likely to find the numbers written with commas in them, however, in class they are expected to write the numbers without the commas.  For the purposes of this little mini-assignment they should just try to find large numbers.  Include the numbers you find with commas as that is how they are likely to be presented outside of the school system.
I have attached the sheet that I would like students to use for this assignment to this page and below I have included the rubric that I will be using to evaluate student’s work.
Collected samples from newspapers, magazines and the internet
5
4
3
2
Collected 10 examples
5
4
3
2
Has included numbers in both standard form and word form
5
4
3
2



Regards,

Deanne Burton Snow

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