Monday, December 6, 2010

December 6 - December 10

Students are receiving their graded CoWs today and tomorrow (staggered). Students who met or approached standards on the reasoning and communication portion will be exempt from the reasoning and communication portion until after the winter break. Students who need to revise their work will re-do CoW #13, and it will be due on Friday.

ALL students will work on ixl.com for 30 minutes per day.
6th Grade ixl.com topics are: L1, L2, L3, and L5.
7th Grade ixl.com topics are: G7 and G11 (required) I1 and Y1 can be completed for a challenge and a look ahead.

Students who did not turn in the CoW assignment will receive an advisor referral.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

7th grade ABSOLUTE VALUE

The following links are helpful in understanding absolute value. Tomorrow, Cow #13 is due, and we will have an assessment on adding and subtracting negative and positive numbers.
Math Mastery - (includes a short video)

Math Goodies

Monday, November 15, 2010

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

CoW #11 - Eliminate Possibilities

This week's cow has a new problem-solving strategy, Eliminate Possibilities. During the first week with this strategy, we will model this type of problem so that every student will have an example of how to use this strategy. Additionally, we will review each night's homework in class, so that students have a complete and correct solution by Friday (provided that they are taking notes during class). Click here for the reasoning and communication portion.


6th Grade ixl.com skills for this week's homework are:
I.1, Addition and Subtraction Practice
I.2, Addition and Subtraction - Word Problems
K.1, Multiply Whole Numbers
K.2, Multiply Whole Numbers -Word Problems
Students must reach a Smart Score of 90 for every category!

7th Grade ixl.com skills for this week's homework are:
U.1, Write Variable Expressions
U.2, Evaluate Single Variable Expressions I
U.3, Evaluate Single Variable Expressions II
D.2, Integers on Number Lines
Students must reach a Smart Score of 90 for every category!

Monday, October 18, 2010

CoW #9

Yeah! CoW published by Monday. I'm making progress.

6th Grade Knowledge

7th Grade Knowledge

6th and 7th Reasoning and Communication - This week's problem is a new type of problem-solving is systematic list.

This website may help. click here

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Friday, October 8, 2010

IXL at home

7th Grade- the following topics relate to what we are currently studying in math. If you want to work on ixl.com this weekend, please work on these topics first and work toward a scaled score of 80 or more.
J.6, J.7 do the ratios form a proportion?
X.1 - identify proportional relationships
X.2 find the constant of variation
X.3 does x,y satisfy the equation
X.4 evaluate a function
X.5 complete a function table
X.6 write a rule for a function table
X.7 find points on a function graph

6th Grade - at this point, you should have all of section R complete, as well as S.1, S.2, and S.3. We have not yet reviewed all the material for section S.4, but you can give it a try and read the explanations. See how well you can do independently.