October

their first deposit. Transaction one was figured and checkbook register completed to that point. || Students charted their LtoJ results. After viewing the attached video, students traced the base of their cylinder on grid paper in order to find the area of the circle in square units.media type="file" key="Get_Real__Bottle_Volume.asf" || Students began launching their Barbies. || simulation. || Students used hand-made cylinders to discover the formula for volume of a cylinder. || Students finished launching Barbies. || problems/puzzles. || Students completed their Barbie Bungee packets and turned them in to me. || Both groups continued on finance simulation looking at areas which are causing them troubles. || LtoJ assessment || LtoJ assessment || I Wonder questions while the others continued with their transactions. Students handed in their bellwork. || The students created a cyinder using the measurements of a cone. Students turned in their bellwork. || Students took a pre-assessment on slope of a line. || traded 'I Wonder...." questions for the purpose of a peer review. Remaining time was spent on transactions. || Students determined that a cone has 1/3 of the volume of its 'mother' cylinder. Pre test tomorrow over volume concepts. || Both classes reviewed their Barbie Bungee packets. Fifth hour began concentrated work on slope of a line. || When students have completed through transaction 5, they can look for their apartment. || Students practiced finding volume of cylinders and prisms. || Many students were out of the room for other reasons; remainng students created scatterplot graphs comparing Barbie weights and rubberbands used for jumps. || end of Pay Period 2 so students began figuring their net income with the remaining time. || Students played Jeopardy with the 'clickers' where they practiced finding volume of various solids. A study guide with practice problems was sent home. There is a test on Wednesday over these skills. || 5th hour worked on finding slope of a line given a line (making slope triangle) as well as finding slope given two points on the line. 6th hour reviewed their LtoJ assessment results. They will be focusing on slope beginning on Monday. Attached is a video which provides a great definition as well as examples on how to find slope using the above methods. media type="file" key="1. What_is_Slope_.asf"media type="file" key="2.Finding_Slope_Given_the_Coordinates_of_Two_Points_on_a_Line.asf" || 13 || Students worked on calculating their net pay. The first page of the checkbook register is due this week (by Friday). || Students practiced finding volume in preparation for their test. || Many students were absent (funeral) during 5th hour. The small group learned how to factor a quadratic expression. Sixth hour watched the videos above (Oct 10) and took notes on the topic of slope. || 22 || Finance Simulation || LtoJ || Students found slope using the point-slope method. || Mrs. Confer had a substitute today. || Erichment Activities || Enrichment Activities || Textbook assignment. || Small groups due to full band practice until 11:05. All classes experimented viewed video on slope as an introduction/enrichment. || LtoJ assessment || Type in the content of your new page here.
 * || MATH || PRE ALGEBRA || ALGEBRA ||
 * Oct 1 || Students continued to work on net pay and
 * Oct 2 || Students worked through transaction 2 in finance
 * Oct 3 || LtoJ assessment || Combined band; small classes. Students worked logic
 * Oct 6 || Period 1 charted ltoj results from last week.
 * Oct 7 || Some students went to the computer lab to finanize their
 * Oct 8 || Students took the quiz on rational numbers for a second time to measure growth. Students in first hour
 * Oct 9 || Students continued with transactions. Their second pay period ends tomorrow so they will be figuring their net pay.
 * Oct 10 || Students took an LtoJ assessment and corrected it in class. Today was also the
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 * Oct 15 || Students continued on finance simulation. || Students took test over volume and began LtoJ || Students worked on finding slope using the slope triangle and were introduced to using slope formula to find slope. ||
 * Oct 16 || Students continued on finance simulation. || Students finisihed LtoJ and began solving given situations in their own way which will be taken to an algebriac way. || Students worked on finding slope, but mostly focused on comparing equations of a line to given graphs of lines. We also worked on solving for 'y'. ||
 * Oct 20 || Fiance simulation || Students wrote equations from given situations. || Both classes worked to write an equation of a line given a slope and a point on the line. Fifth hour has an assignment due. ||
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 * Oct 23 || Students shopped for apartments; apartment worksheet was due at the end of the period.
 * Oct 24 || Small groups due to full band practice until 11:05.