September

3 || Students worked with fraction enrichment and their "I wonder..." question was finalized || Students took their first LtoJ assessment || 6th hour finished checking their LtoJ both classes took notes on laws of exponents. Graphic organizer attached. 5th hour took notes through 'zero exponent'; 6th took notes up to negative exponents on first page. The video that accompanies this graphic organizer is too large to upload. Please make arrangements to see Mrs. Confer. || 4 || Students began a measurement activity where they have to determine how much money in pennies would it take to stack them from floor to ceiling. Students chose their own measurement system and aimed to come within a set margin of error when it compared to our amount. || Students checked their LtoJ assessments noting problems they made. || Students continued notetaking and practice simplyfing expressions (containing rational expressions) with exponents. || 5 || Students continued with the above activity. || Students worked with tangrams and began an activity where they have to determine the percent each tangram piece is of the whole square. Students needed to provide explaination of their thinking process. || Students choosing to retake their quiz over number sets did so while other students worked on mathcounts practice problems or enrichment regarding factoring quadratic expressions (both provided enrichment and advanced thought!) || 8 || Individually, students will record their measurements and results of the investigation regarding stacking pennies from floor to ceiling. These will be collected prior to comparing process and results with other groups. Students will be focused to see a connection to ratios and proportions (a current bellwork focus). || Students who have not finished with the activity from Friday will do so today. Other students will be working on troubling areas as indicated by their LtoJ assessment. || Students will again focus on simplyfing expressions with exponents (see Sept 4). They will be provided practice problems. It is encouraged that students think of these as puzzles. They will work individually and in groups when practicing in order to prepare them for a quiz (currently set for Wednesday). || 9 || Students shared their results and processes used to solve Pennies problem. || Students finished tangram activity; it was collected. || Students continued with expression with exponents focus. || 10 || LtoJ Assessment || LtoJ Assessment || Students applied learned rules of simplifying expressions with exponents. || 11 || Reviewed LtoJ assessment results; took a quiz over comparing metric and customary measurement systems || checked LtoJ assessment; took an informal assessment over the measurement systems in order to determine strengths and needs of the classes || Students practiced simplifying expressions with exponents; practice page 9-2 due tomorrow || Type in the content of your new page here.
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 * Sept 15 || The extensive finance project began today with students getting introduced to the pieces of the project as well as receiving their first timecard. Students will receive $109.83 each day for coming to math class. After 10 days of pay, they will figure their gross and then net income (and probably cry like adults do)... then they will begin to make purchases using discounts, taxes, etc. || Focused on solving multi-step equations. || Students solved a problem where they had to determine the pay off value on a car loan. The formula used to determine this amount involves negative exponents. ||
 * Sept 16 - 19 || THIS WIKI SITE HAS BEEN BLOCKED AT SCHOOL WHEN I ATTEMPT TO LOG ON TO MAKE UPDATES. I APOLOGIZE FOR THE DELAY AND I WILL TRY TO MAKE THE POSTS FROM HOME. ||  ||   ||
 * Sept 22 || * correct LtoJ from last week
 * some students took a pretest over equivalent forms of fractions, decimals and percents
 * others worked on perfecting their I Wonder questions || * correct LtoJ from last week
 * began a geometry project involving volume of a cylinder where students will discover the formula on how to find the volume || * the directives of Barbie Bungee were dispersed and discussed so they can begin the project in a prompt fashion tomorrow ||
 * Sept 23 || * Worked on rational number equivalents: decimal, percent and fractions || * conducted an experiment on cylinder volume || * ran Barbie Bungee tests ||
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 * students calculated their net pay || * two hour late start
 * LtoJ assessment || * students determined the line of regression of Barbie bungee data and determined the number of rubberbands to be used for the launch ||