8th grade math will be fun but you will have to use imagination,
perseverance, and thinking skills to be successful. Transition Mathematics
is a wonderful textbook and you will find that taking notes will be
extremely helpful.
10/5/09 - Correct Chapter 1 tests
Hmwk - Recorrecting
10/6/09 - Begin Chapter 2 -Very Large and very small numbers
Hmwk - pp 66-67 (1-41 and #43)
10/7/09 - Extra Group work on Exploration problems
10/8/09 - The Thinking Student's Quiz
10/9/09 - Correct quiz
Hmwk - Read Lesson 2
10/12/09 - Correct pp 66-67
Any questions on Powers
Hmwk - pp 70-71 (2-40 evens)
10/13/09 - Correct pp 70-71
Begin Scientific Notation
10/14/09 - Finish Scientofic Notation for large numbers
Hmwk - pp 76-77 (1-26)
10/15 and 10/16/09 - No Class
10/19/09 - Correct pp 76-77
Multiplication and division are connected
10/20/09 - The % key and what it means
Hmwk - pp 81-82 (1-38)
10/21/09 - Correct pp 81-82
Hmwk - pp 82-83 (39-57)
10/22/09 - Correct 82-83
10/23/09 - Finish Correcting 82-83
Percents of Quantities 2-5
Hmwk - pp 86-87 (1-22)
10/26/09 - Correct 86-87
Lesson 2-6 % to decimals to fractions
Hmwk - pp 91-92 (11-34)
10/27/09 - Correct 91-92
10/28/09 - Circle graphs
How to make them
What they mean
Hmwk - pp 96-98 (1-21)
10/29/09 - Correct 96-98
10/30 - Early Out
11/2/09 - Finish Correcting 96-98