Friday, December 7

Friday Check on Multiplying and Dividing Decimals.

Once the students were completed with the Friday Check they needed to complete a One pager with the following criteria:

·         Choose 1 operation that we have done with decimals

·         Create a 1 page display of that operation.

·         Include:

o   1 sample problem solved

o   While solving, write out the steps, make it clear you know the steps!

o   List important steps you MUST ALWAYS do while solving with the operation

Example lining up the decimals wtih addition and subtraction, or placing the decimal into the answer with addition, subtraction, and divison.

o   Use color and be creative!

Thursday, December 6

Today we took a Bellwork quiz!
There were 4 questions, the students that recieved a 100% got a ticket out of class to complete a one pager for the Operations wtih Decimals.

Tomorrow's Friday check will cover Multiplication and Division of Decimals. There will be 8 questions; 2 skill problems, and 2 word problems each!

Wednesday, December 5

Today I continued to monitor individual students progress with multiplying and dividing decimals.

We will have a Friday Check on Multiplying and Dividing Friday of this week.

For help on these see Monday and Tuesday's posts.

Tuesday, December 4

Today we began our lesson on Division of decimals. We will be continuing this lesson tomorrow and have more practice and begin to solve word problems for division of decimals.

Here is a video and note sheets the students viewed and received.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlEx1TN-dqY

Monday, December 3

Today we multiplied decimals by other decimal numbers and with whole numbers we also watched a video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEHejQphIYc

Practice sheets - Page one and Two

Multiplication of Decimals with Real World Problems

Mutiplication of Decimals

Friday, November 30

Today we completed 1 adding decimal problem and then 2 subtraction decimal problems to review.

Then the students completed a Friday check for this weeks materials.

Here's a video for subtraction of decimals for some extra help!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mOH-qNGM7M

Thursday, November 29

Today we reviewed place values again, and practiced adding and subtracting decimals.
The students completed a real-world word problems and studied their vocabulary words for unit 4.

Here are the handouts they received for word problems:

Friday Check TOMORROW!

Wednesday, November 28

Today we reviewed place values and continued with Adding and Subtracting Decimals.
Students received the following note sheet and we completed practice problems, too.

Tuesday, November 27

Today we began our new unit Decimals.

We began by reviewing place value. We completed the following activity where students had to "un-stramble" the place values and write the correct values.

Tomorrow we will begin Adding and Subtracting decimals.

Monday, November 26

Welcome back! I hope you all had a wonderful and restful break!

Today I conferences with small  groups of students and gave back their Ratio test scores.
They will be bring those home tonight and need to have them signed and returned.

They students also continued to work on a flashback review they worked on while I was out of town before break began.

Tomorrow we will begin our new unit on Decimals!

Thursday, November 15

Unit 3 Test:  Multiple Choice and Short Answer!

Mrs. Graff will be out Friday and all next week! I hope every one has a Happy Thanksgiving!!

Wednesday, November 14

Today we completed the Study Guide for Unit 3. We really concentrated on Unit Pricing and Proportions.


Here are the answers to the study guide, so you can check as you study and work tonight! Remember all Resources posted on the blog from Oct 22 until now can help you to review, as well!

Page 1: Study Guide Key



Page 2: Study Guide Key



The students then completed their Constructive Response for their Unit 3 Test. The multiple choice and Short Answer questions will be given tomorrow!!


Think Link or DEA Testing will be FRIDAY! Please treat this as a major exam, like State testing! We need to have good results and the students want to show IMPROVEMENT from their first round in August! Good Luck, I know you will all do great!

Tuesday, November 13

Reivewed Unit 3: We really concentrated on proportions and solving using equivalent fractions/ratios.

Here is the bellwork we completed..

Then we completed a review study guide together, pictured below.

Page 1 of study guide

Page 2 of study guide

Monday, November 12

Reviewed Proportions and other Unite 3 content. We worked independently on 5 bellwork questions and then completed a dry erase board race to complete for observations.

Bell Work Questions were as follows:

Solve the unit rate
1. Susie bought 12 apples for $4.96. Albert bought 15 apples for $6.38. Which person had the better buy?

2. Josie works for 7 days and made $528. How much did she make each day?

3. Michael traveled 75 miles in 1 hour. How far will he travel in 4 hours?

4. Melinda travels at a constant speed of 60 miles per one hour. How long will it take her to travel 120 miles?

Solve the proportions, finding the equivalent ratios, or by cross multiplying with a variable.

5. An orchard as a ratio of apple trees to pear trees of 8:15. If there are 96 apple trees,
              how many pear trees are there?

Friday, November 10

Today we focused on proportions and how we can solve for a missing variable based on equivalent ratios and using cross multiplication.

Here are the notes we used and the handouts the students received.

We will finish this up on Monday!

Look for a Test on Unit 3 Ratios, Rates, and Proportions on Wednesday or Thursday, next week!

Thursday, November 8

Review over ratio and rates!

completed practice problems and identified misconceptions of students.

Wednesday, November 7

Hope everyone had a restful break! This week we will spend time review all the materials and content we looked at in Unit 3- Ratios!

All students received these handouts and we will conference in small groups to identify misconceptions with every student.
We will have a new Friday Check on November 9th that will mirror the one we took last Friday! I will not be counting last weeks Friday Check, I feel that everyone needs more time with the content on the Check and we will revisit those targets this week.

Handouts used today and tomorrow for revisiting of content!

Thursday, November 1

Today we completed the Unit Pricing Scavenger hunt from Wednesday and the two independent worksheets from Tuesday. Today was a day spent working and reviewing for the Friday check tomorrow!!

Friday Check will cover simplifying ratios and solving for unit rates and unit pricing!

Wednesday, October 31

Today in class we will use the websites below to solve unit rate problems to some unit pricing, real world problems to find the best buy for each paired products.

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Materials

Pencil

Calculator

I can…

·       solve unit rates involving unit pricing.

·       use ratio and rates to solve real-world math problems.

 

Lip Gloss : Covergirl Vs

http://www.amazon.com/Covergirl-Queen-Collection-Flame-331/dp/B001KJA5UU/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1351613165&sr=8-7&keywords=lip+gloss+8+oz\

Lip Gloss Pure Lumination

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004PRSRIQ/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B004V6XUHY&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0S3K9Z425GXF54P7EW4N

Hair Spray-Rusk W8Less Hairspray vs.

http://compare.ebay.com/like/251166170774?_lwgsi=y&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar

Suave Hair spray

http://www.overstock.com/Health-Beauty/Suave-Max-Hold-13.75-ounce-Hairspray-Pack-of-4/5077690/product.html?cid=144210&fp=F&TRACK=CSEBing&mr:referralID=25843ca8-22ac-11e2-8751-001b2166c2c0

Dr. Thunder vs.

http://www.walmart.com/browse/beverages/soft-drinks/976759_976782_1001680?browsein=true&catNavId=976782&ic=48_0&povid=cat976782-env249795-moduleA020812-lLinkLHN7SoftDrinks&tab_value=18728_All

Dr. Pepper

http://www.walmart.com/browse/beverages/soft-drinks/976759_976782_1001680?tab_value=all&catNavId=976782&ss=false&ic=32_128

8 pack Gatorade vs. 8 Pack Power Aide

http://www.walmart.com/browse/beverages/sports-energy-drinks/976759_976782_1001682?tab_value=all&catNavId=976782&ss=false&ic=32_32

Golf Balls

Top Flite vs. Titleist

http://www.walmart.com/browse/golf/golf-balls/4125_4152_5208/?catNavId=4152&ic=48_0&search_sort=5&tab_value=OnlineGo

Tennis Balls

Penn Regular vs. Head Penn QST

http://www.walmart.com/browse/sports-outdoors/tennis-racquet/4125_538538/?_refineresult=true&catNavId=4125&povid=cat121828-env999999-moduleA072012-lLinkGNAV5_SportsFitnessOutdoors_TennisRacquet

Tuesday, October 30

Today we continued working with Unit Pricing.

We worked started with questions we did together, then we worked on some independent work.

These are the sheets we completed and will continue Thursday as independent work.

Tomorrow we will go to the computer lab to complete a scavenger hunt for the best prices!

Monday, October 29

Today we worked on Unit Pricing and Unit Rates.

Wednesday, October 24

Today we discussed Unit Rates. We took notes and practiced!



Here is a great resources for unit rates!

http://mathvillage.info/node/71

and another

http://www.mathplayground.com/howto_ratiowordproblems.html

Tuesday, October 23

Today we continued working on writing ratios and simplifying those ratios. We also looked at the relationship of the items in ratios.

Here are the 1/2 sheets we completed.

Monday, October 22

Today we started Unit 3- Ratios

First we took a look at our new vocabulary with a matching activity in small groups.

Then, we discussed writing ratios, similarities to fractions, and how to simplify ratios.

Tomorrow we will continue simplifying ratios and move into Rates and Unit Rates

Friday, October 19

Today ends Unit 2 Fractions!

We Self Assessed our results on the Fraction Test. Using sample questions to solve for all missed targets.

The Self Assessments will need to be completed and returned Monday if they were not completed in class Friday.

We also completed a Pre-Assessment for Unit 3: Ratios.

Thursday, October 18

Today we finished up our centers for Unit 2 Review and Self Check. There were 5 centers total.

The students were also responsible for completing a One Pager- illustration for a topic covered in Unit 2.

Here are a select few that were created and are hanging outside our classroom:

I also conferenced with students in each class. I was only able to get half of the students complete and will continue the DEA and Unit Assessment result conferencing tomorrow.

We will also complete Self-Assessments tomorrow for Unit 2

Wednesday, October 17

Today in class we had A LOT going on! We had students completing tests, Ratio preview sheet, One Page illustrations of Unit 2 topics, and Unit 2 Centers.

Tomorrow will be the same process, although the test is over we will continue centers and complete those tomorrow. I will also be conferencing with each child between Thursday and Friday about Think Link testing results and Unit 1 & 2 Assessments.

Everyone worked hard today, lets see more of it tomorrow!! ;-)

Monday and Tuesday October 15-16

Testing on Unit 2!

Friday, October 12

TEST on Monday!

Today we reviewed with solving division word problems and completing a study guide!

Thursday, October 11

Today we continued to review division of fractions and we practiced checking the division problems using multiplication.

We also practice more visual representations of division problems.

Notes for Checking Division with Multiplication:

Wednesday, October 10

TEST IS MOVED TO MONDAY & TUESDAY WE WILL NOT HAVE THE TEST ON FRIDAY!


Today we had a mixture of events going on.

Mrs. Graff was out at the beginning of the day, so 2nd and 3rd period completed a review sheet with the substitute. I did not want to let the other class periods to feel left out so they received the review sheet too. Then we continued looking at real world problems and how to represent them visually.

Review Sheet is not Homework... It was given to you to help you review! Work on it between now and Friday and we can go over any questions you have.


Here are the two questions we solved and some student work from the class:

This question we solved as a class:

We took notes and talked about how we can solve and represent these problems:

Then we worked on a question individually and discussed in small groups: