PUERTO RICO Class introduction from teacher Mrs. Lourdes Latorre and the students (ages 10-11) in her 5th grade math classes. From Second Unit Botijas I School in Orocovis, Puerto Rico E-mail:  gardyy2k@coqui.net Dear friends, Hi, it's a pleasure to be part of this project once again. Our introduction is very similar to last year's, the only differences are: 1. This year we are a year older.  Now we are in fifth grade. 2. Two of last year's students, Jessica and Rebecca moved back to the United States, and we have a new student, Juan Manuel. Receive a warm and affectionate greeting from all of us including our teacher Mrs. Latorre. Math students group 5-1 Orocovis, Puerto Rico Hi! Our introduction is a little late but we hope that our joining the group will be of joy to the other groups as it is for us.  We are a group of 5th graders a total of 24, 12 girls and 12 boys.  Our teacher is Mrs. Latorre.  We are all ten years old except for Marciano who just celebrated his 11th birthday. We enjoy playing playstatión, Gameboy, watching Pokemon and playing tag.   We are very happy to be part of this international math group.  We are from Orocovis, Puerto Rico.  Orocovis is located at the very center of the island of Puerto Rico.  The island's size is 35 miles wide by 100 miles long.  It is a small but a very beautiful island.  Its location is longitude 65W, latitude 18N more or less. The populatión of Orocovis is approximately 21,158 (according to the 1990 census).  It is a small town.  It has an extensión of 164.5 km.  Our town has only 3 main supermarkets but many mini-markets.  We have about 12 clothes stores and 2 shoe stores. Our school has 450 students approximately from kindergarten to 9th grade.  We have the regular 5 classes Spanish, English, Math, Science and Social Studies. In additión to these classes we have:  from Kindergarten to third grade we have the Bellas Artes Class: music, art, dance, and theater;  from 4th to 6th grade we have physical educatión and in 7th to 9th grade we have Vocational Agriculture FFA (Future Farmers of America) and Home Economics and also physical education. We will be having computers soon. We will finding out how math is used in our everyday lives for example: time, recipes, spending and saving money, distances traveled, etc.   We will be sending our class picture soon and names.  Hasta pronto! Your friends, 5th grade group 1 (there are two 5th grade groups)   Estimados amigos. Hola, es un placer ser parte de este proyecto una vez más. Nuestra introducción es muy similar a la del año pasado, las únicas diferencias son: 1.  Este año somos un año mayor.  Ahora estamos en quinto grado. 2.  Dos de los estudiantes del año pasado, Jessica y Rebecca regrasaron a los Estados Unidos, tenemos un nuevo estudiante, Juan Manuel. Reciban un saludo caluroso y afectuoso de parte de todos incluyendo nuestra maestra la Sra. Latorre.   Estudiantes de Mat. grupo 5-1 Orocovis, Puerto Rico