7 West Math

We are beginning a new project with Mrs. Wright’s math classes from Challenger Middle School in Huntsville. We will be blogging together this year. We are looking forward to making new friends and learning more about mathematics in the process of blogging.

Please remember to follow all of the guidelines that we discussed.
Head on over to The Math Challenger and leave a comment on the welcome post, Your Choice, and Let’s Meet Mrs. Simpson.

Check out Equation Buster. It is a great game for illustrating the properties of equality!  This page lists other links to equation-solving activities that you might enjoy.

Tell me, how do you like what we did today?

We continued to work on negative numbers today.  Pre-Algebra needs to complete Skills Practice Workbook pages 9-10 (the odd problems only) by Monday.  We will have a quiz Monday over adding and subtracting integers and a test Tuesday.

Math

5th & 6th Periods: Worksheet, Homework 1.2

7th Period:  p. 108, # 12-44 even (7th period is doing work from the book because of their behavior)

I will be out tomorrow for a meeting of the Key Leaders Network.  I am sure that I will learn a lot while I am there.  Students will work on review for the Progress Monitoring test that will be given on Friday.  This test will measure their progress on the following objectives:

• Determine measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode) and the range using a given set of data or graphs including histograms, frequency tables, and stem-and-leaf plots.
• Use the order of operations to evaluate numerical expressions.
• Translate verbal phrases into algebraic expressions and algebraic expressions into verbal phrases.

We took tests in all classes yesterday.  So far I have graded 2nd, 3rd, and 5th periods, and I am very pleased with the grades.  I will try my best to finish the other two classes tonight. 

Last night’s homework:

Math: p. 28, #1-20

Pre-Algebra: pp. 31-32, #14-24 even, 42-52 even, 62-72 even

Today Pre-Algebra worked with graphing on the coordinate plane.  They had time to work on their assignment during class.  It was pp. 36-38, #12-56 even.

Math classes learned about properties of numbers.  We took notes on a Foldable, and the assignment is pp. 32-33, #12-26 even, 39, 42-48, 52-56 even.

I reminded students of my late work policy.  The only circumstance under which I take late work (if the student was in class the days it was assigned and checked) is with a note from a parent.  If your child does not have time to complete their work tonight (I’m thinking of football players and cheerleaders), I will let them have an extra day if they bring me a note from you tomorrow saying they didn’t have time to complete it.

Go Black Bears! 

I hope you had an enjoyable holiday.  I enjoyed being with family and friends.  Progress reports will come home on Monday, September 18. 

We decided to split this chapter in half and test tomorrow so that we will have plenty of test grades before progress reports.  We reviewed in class today, and the test tomorrow will cover sections 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4.  Tonight’s homework assignment is the workbook pages over those sections.  This is for math and pre-algebra. 

Open House will be Tuesday, September 12 at 6:00 pm. I am looking forward to seeing you there.