Monday, September 17

Today we completed a pretest for the next unit on Fractions.

Then the students recieved a Student Grade Report for this Unit 1 Assessment that took last week.
They are to have those signed by a parent/guardian by tomorrow, Tuesday, September 18.

Today and part of tomorrow's class the students are working on a self assessment. This is to help them be aware of what targets they struggled on and what targets they have mastered. We will work on these tomorrow in class also, and these self-assessments are due Wednesday, Spetember 19 and are worth 20 points.

Students are encoraged to use the blog postings, their study guide, and example problems they wrote down to practice each target they missed. Don't forget about the Reflection at the end. Make sure it is complete.

Self-Assessment Page 1

Self-Assessment Page 2

Self-Assessment Page 3

Friday, September 14

Complete Unit 1 Test- Constructive Response: Review the Do What Process

Thursday, September 13

Unit 1 Test: We completed the multiple choice and the Short Answer today. Tomorrow we will complete the Constructive Response.

Tuesday, September 11

Today we reviewed and practiced "breaking down" a number and complex addition problem by using Distributive property.

Homework tonight:
Period 2: Complete 4-6 on Word Problem handout
Period 3: & 6 Complete the two Distributive Property Expressions
Period 5: Exempted for tonight

Here are the notes:

Page 1 - Materials and Bellwork

Page 2- First page of Notes

Page 3- WE DO practice

Page 4- YOU DO Practice

Wednesday, September 12: TEST Tomorrow

We will have our Unit 1- Prime Time test on Thursday! You will receive a study guide on Wednesday!


Agenda and Bellwork:

STUDY GUIDE:

Page1 - Front

Page 2- Back

Videos for LCM and GCF

LCM Video

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


LCM & GCF Video ( You do not need to watch the Simplifying Factions part for now)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEo4lGlw0yY

Monday, September 10

Thank you to all the students for working so hard while I was gone. I hated missing so many days at the beginning of school; however, I have returned and we have a lot to cover this week!

Today we reviewed the "ladder method" that Mrs. Keys taught the students to identify the GCF and LCM for any 2 given numbers.

We applied this skill to solving real world (word) problems. The students need to be able to identify when a word problem is asking them to find the GCF or the LCM. Therefore, we took notes and I gave them a handout on this to take home and to keep in their math modeling binder. We worked on some problems in class and I assigned 6 problems (3 each) for homework. Below is the handouts we covered today.

Notes:

Classwork was to complete 1-3 HOMEWORK is to complete 4-6

GCF side                                                                                                         LCM side