Parents: Any Acc. Math test that has not yet been taken will be entered as a
0 score on the next grade sheet. Please encourage your child to complete
this assignment that has been in effect for 6+ weeks.
Monday, May 14th:
We will review for the next (and last) placement test. We will work and check
in class.
At this point, I do not plan to assign homework.
Tuesday:
We will classify expressions. This is in lesson 13.4 in the text.
Homework will be from the text.
Wednesday: We will have award's day in the morning. I am not sure if we will
meet. If we do, we will have a follow-up assignment on yesterday's lesson.
Thursday: Quiz (from the text) over the lessons covered in chapter 13.
Friday: Field day.
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Monday, May 7th:
We will continue to prepare for the MLK placement test. Students will have a
classwork review as well as a homework paper.
Tuesday: We will turn in the homework. We will complete one last review
paper. Homework??? Relax and prepare for the test.
Wednesday: The students will be finished with the test by the time we meet.
I do not know if I will start a new lesson or not. I am interested in
hearing their feedback.
Thursday:
Friday:
Monday, April 30th:
We will talk about simplifying radicals........
The students will have a workbook assignment over this. We will extend this
tomorrow.
Tuesday: We will extend yesterday's lesson on radicals with a group activity.
Homework will be a Cumulative Review through Chapter 7.
Wednesday: We will have a prep lesson today. We will have a review homework
lesson.
Thursday: We will talk about arithmetic and geometric sequences.
We will have a homework paper on this.
Friday: We will have another prep session.
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Tuesday, April 10th:
Today we will write equations to solve word problems. The focus is on the
equation that is written for the solution. Students will have the Practice WB
page for 7.4 for homework.
Wednesday:
We will cover lesson 7.5, writing equations to solve problems with variables
on both sides of the equal sign.
There will be a homework assignment over this skill.
Thursday: We will have a review activity over lesson 7.5 before a review
assignment is made.
Friday: Quiz over 7.3-7.5.
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Monday, March 26th:
Students will have a multiple-choice review of box and whisker plots during
class. For homework, they will complete a multiple-choice review of skills.
Tuesday: We will cover lessons 7.1, multi-step equations and solving word
problems using these equations. The emphasis will be on writing the equation
for a word problem solution.
Wednesday: We will continue our lessons on equations in lesson 7.2,
incorporating the distributive property into the process as well as
collecting like terms before solving.
Thursday: Lesson 7.3 involves the skills covered thus far in the chapter and
extends these skills to fraction and decimals. Homework will be from the
workbook (I think.)
Friday: I don't know yet.
Monday, March 19th:
We will cover lesson 8.8 today, graphing linear inequalities on the coordinate
plane. Homework will be from the text.
Tuesday: We will check homework. Students will have a follow-up assignment on
this skill. We will have a test over chapter 8 tomorrow.
Wednesday: Test. Homework is a review of chapter 6.
Thursday: We will check the homework. We will talk about box and whisker
plots. There will be a homework assignment on this.
Friday: Homework will be checked. We will complete another readiness
review in class.
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Monday, March 12:
We will graph equations from standard form. This is not in the text, but
should be included in our curriculum.
Students will have a graphing assignment and a page in the text that are due
on Wednesday:
Tuesday: Most students will be on a field trip. No new instruction will be
planned.
Wednesday: We will review Monday's work. We will talk about solving systems
of equations by graphing (lesson 8.7). A homework assignment will be made.
Thursday: We will briefly talk about another way to solve systems of
equations....substitution. Homework will be assigned.
Friday: After checking the homework, we will work another Readiness practice.
I do not plan on assigning homework. We will pick up next week with another
method for solving systems of equations.
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Monday, March 5th:
I will collect the WB page assigned last week. We will go through a short
lesson today on scatterplots (8.5). The class's homework will be from the
text. It will review the chapter skills we have covered to date as well as a
question on today's lesson. It is from the Chapter 8 Review page in the back
of the book.
Tuesday: We will review the homework. The class will extend yesterday's
lesson as they make a scatterplot and make predictions from a trend line.
Homework will be a review of the chapter.
Wednesday: Mid-Chapter Quiz
Homework: Chapter 5 review
Thursday: We will review the quizzes and start talking about systems of
equations.
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Monday, 2/27/2012:
We will start on lesson 8.3 today, studying the slope of a linear equation.
We will cover the first half of the lesson, with a homework assignment from
the text. There will also be a review sheet on 8.1 and 8.2.
Tuesday: We will finish our lesson on slope (I think.) Regardless, we will
have a review on the section we do get through.
Wednesday: We will review (or finish) lesson 8.3. I want to proceed through
this lesson carefully. The concepts are important.
Thursday: We will have a quiz over 8.1-8.3. Homework will be a review of
chapter 5.
Friday: We will start on lesson 8.4, writing rules from tables. We will
continue this on Monday.
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Tuesday, February 21st:
We will finish our work on volume today. We will add one more page to our
notes that deals with the volume of spheres and cones.
Students will have a review assignment on volume.
Wednesday:
We will start back with the text lessons today in chapter 8.
We will cover lesson 8.1, Algebraic Functions.
Students will have a practice assignment for this lesson.
Thursday:
Lesson 8.2 covers Solutions to Equations in two variables. Students will have
a practice assignment on this.
Friday:
We will start lesson 8.3 today. This lesson will take three days to cover.
We will probably do the practice skill for the first part in class.
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Monday, February 13th
We will start on surface area of prisms today. How far we go with the lesson
really depends on the response of the class.
If we go on to pyramids, it will be included in the homework. The homework
will be from the text.
Tuesday: We will pick up from where we left off yesterday. I am letting the
class decide when they want a SA quiz/review. Again, our progress will be
determined by their understanding of the new formulas we have.
I hope to finish all surface area and begin volume by the end of the week.
However, I am prepared to wait until next week to start volume.
Your child's homework will be posted daily on the classroom board.
Wednesday - Friday: Continue with surface area, have a quiz, or move on to
volume.
Homework will be assigned each day to cover the skill we practice in class.
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Monday, February 6th:
We will discuss circle circumference, circle parts, and create circle graphs
from a chart after finding the correct measure of the central angles.
Homework will be from the text.
Tuesday: We will cover circle area. Homework will be from the text.
Wednesday: Test on plane geometry, homework will be a review of chapter 3
concepts.
Thursday: Geometric solids.....homework from the text
Friday: Surface area I
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Monday, January 30th
We will cover classification of quadrilaterals today. Students will have
homework over this and the measure of missing angles.
Tuesday: We will go on to perimeter of polygons. Students will have
homework over this.
Wednesday: We will cover the first part of the area lessons. Studnets will
have homework from the text.
Thursday: We will cover the last part of the area lesson. Again, the
homework will come from the text.
Friday: We will have a quiz over the week's skills.
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Monday, January 23rd:
We will start our Geometry study today. We will work on reviewing the basics
of geometry covered last year.....homework will be given to cover these
topics. If we have time, we will also talk about angle relationships.
Wednesday: We will continue working on angle relationships. Homework will be
given on the first two topics.
Thursday: We will discuss polygon classification and triangles.
Friday: We will classify quadrilaterals. I hope to have a quiz a on missing
angles in triangles and discuss missing angles in quadrilaterals.
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Tuesday, January 17th:
We will check the work from lesson 6.6 assigned last week. Lesson 6.7 is a
continuation of this skill using equations rather than proportions. Students
will be able to choose their solution method.
Homework will be from the text.
Wednesday: Lesson 6.8 deals with percent of change. Students will have an
assignment from the text.
Thursday: Today's lesson deals with the everyday application of percent.
After the notes, students will have a homework assignment. I have not yet
chosen the one I want to use.
Friday: Depending on the class's progress, we may have a review quiz today.
If not today, it will be scheduled for Monday.
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Wednesday, January 4th - Friday, January 13th....
Wednesday: We will start chapter 6, with ratios and rates. Students will
have a workbook page and text selection for homework.
Thursday: 6.2 deals with proportions. Students will again have practice
work for homework.
Friday: We will work with proportions and indirect measures. No homework
will be assigned....I don't think.
Monday: We will continue with last Friday's lesson. A review assignment
will be made over the skills covered to date.
Tuesday: We will work with probability and odds. The homework may come from
the workbook.
Wednesday: Our next several lessons deal with fractions, decimals, and
percents. Our progress through these lessons will depend on the class, as a
whole. I plan for us to be finished with this entire chapter and test over
this material before the end of NEXT week.
The concepts covered will be:
1)Fractions, decimals, and percents
2)Percents in proportions: Finding the part, whole, and part represented as
a percent
3) Percents in equations, and percents in proportions
4) Applying percents: Interest, discounts, mark-up.....
5) Percent of change
Monday: 12/12/2011
We will cover lesson 5.8, Multiplication and Division Equations with
fractions. Students will have a homework assignment to review this skill.
Tuesday: Lesson 5.9 is really a review of the last of our exponent rules:
Finding the power of a product/quotient. We will cover this in class.
Homework: Preparation for the test on Thursday.
Wednesday: Field Trip
Thursday: Test Chapter 5
Friday: ?????????????
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Monday, 12/5/2011
We will review + and - with rational numbers. Students will have a review as
homework.
Tuesday: We will multiply and divide rational numbers. Practice work will be
given as homework.
Wednesday: Students will have review work over multiplication and division of
rationals.
Thursday: We will review all computation skills with rationals. We will work
on reviews in class, and a follow-up homework assignment will be given.
Friday: We will talk about unit conversions with the customary system.
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Monday, November 28th:
Before beginning the chapter on fraction computation, we will spend the day
reviewing all fraction basics from last year.
HW will be an addition exercise on the class review.
Tuesday: We will review the homework and move on to 5.1.
HW will be over 5.1
Wednesday:
Lesson 5.2 deals with equal fractions and decimals.
The HW will be over 5.2
Thursday: We will add and subtract algebraic fractions.
HW will be over this skill
Friday: We will have a quiz over the week's work.
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Monday: November 21st
We will review for the chapter test tomorrow, after covering lesson 4.9 as a
group. Students will have the opportunity to review areas of the chapter that
gave them the most trouble.
Tuesday: Test Chapter 4
Folders will be checked.
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Monday: November 14th
We will cover lesson 4.6. This lesson is about evaluating expressions with
rational numbers.
Homework will be the problems from the reteach page for this lesson. All work
must be completed on the student's own paper.
Tuesday:
4.7 deals with multiplying like bases and taking a power to a power. These
are two new exponent rules for the class.
We will have homework.
Wednesday: We will go on to dividing like bases or review lesson 4.8.
We will have homework.
Thursday: We will review lessons 4.7 and 4.8.
We will have homework.
Friday: Lesson 4.9 goes back to scientific notation. The focus today,
though, will be on computation with scientific notation.
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Monday, 11.7.11:
We will review lesson 4.3 today. Homework will come from the text, pl. 189.
Tuesday:
We will cover lesson 4.2, with homework from the text.
Wednesday:
We will have a follow-up assignment from 4.2, with a review of 5.1-5.3 as
homework.
Thursday: We will cover lesson 4.4. There will be homework. I do not know
yet what it will be.
Friday:
Review 4.4, and go on to 4.5. No homework today.
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Monday, October 31st:
We will have a group session solving problems. For homework, students will
complete a page from the text to help prepare for the test.
Tuesday: Parent-teacher conferences
Wednesday: Test Chapter 3
Homework, review sheet.
Thursday: 4.1 Number Theory.
HW....I'm not sure yet, but they will have homework.
Friday: 4.2 Part I of our Exponent Rules.....these will be continued next
week.
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Monday, October 24th: We will cover lesson 3.5, Decimal Equations with
addition and subtraction.
HW will be from the text.
Tuesday: We will cover lesson 3.6, more decimal equations (mult/division).
HW will be from the text.
Wednesday: We will have a review/quiz using decimals and equations.
Thursday: Lesson 3.7 will take two days. It deals with powers of 10, standard
notation, and scientific notation.
Friday: After checking the homework, we will calculate values using
scientific notation.
Monday, October 31st: We will start to review for the chapter test.
I hope to give the test on Wednesday.
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Tuesday: Students had a test over chapter 2. Problems from 121 are assigned
as homework.
Wednesday: We will review the test. We will cover lessons 3.1 and 3.2 in
class. We will practice the rounding skills, and worksheets over estimating
and rounding will be assigned as homework.
Thursday: We will review the concepts covering decimal computation. We will
practice problem solving in class. Students will have a worksheet for
homework.
Friday: We will evaluate decimal expressions. Students will have a practice
paper on this.
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Monday, September 26th:
Lesson 2.8 covers graphs of inequalities. We will cover the lesson in class,
completing the notes. For homework students will have WB 35-36 and the TP
and MR from the text on p. 105.
Tuesday:
We will solve and graph inequalities using addition and subtraction.
HW: p. 108 (1-10)(22-34)
Wednesday:
We will work with multiplication and division inequalities, graphing the
results. Students have selected problems from p. 113 to complete. No graphs
are required.
Thursday: We will work on IXL skills in class. For homework, students will
have a review of solving and graphing all inequalities. Test - next Tuesday.
Friday: We will retake the pretest for this chapter. Students will start
the review work for the text next week.
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Monday, 9/19/11
We will cover lesson 2.4. Students will have review work over 2.3 and 2.4 for
homework.
Tuesday:
We will go on to 2.5, addition and subtraction equations. The emphasis is on
the correct process and application of equality properties.
Homework will probably from the text.
Wednesday: We will check last night's homework. I may want to stop here for a
review and quiz.
Thursday: Multiplication and division equations, lesson 2.6, with work from
the text.
Friday: We will review all equations with a text assignment.
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Monday 9/12/11
We will move on to lesson 2.2, the Distributive Property. Students will have
a review assignment for homework. It will be a workbook assignment or text
assignment, depending on how the class moves through the lesson.
Tuesday 9/13/11
Lesson 2.3 will take at least two days. We will talk about simplifying
algebraic expressions, combining like terms, and how properties are used in
these processes.
The lesson on Wednesday will continue this topic.
Practice work will be give as homework both nights.
Thursday: 9/13/11
I hope to give a review assignment today, depending on the class's progress on
this lesson. We will at least have a review of properties.
Friday: We will go over the topics covered on the IXL site, reviewing areas I
would like for students to use for practice.
We may go on to lesson 2.4. Again, our progress depends on the results of
each day's lesson.
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Tuesday, September 6th
We covered lesson 1.10. This is a review of last year's topic, with an
emphasis on the definitions.
The workbook pages were assigned as homework.
Wednesday: In preparation for tomorrow's test, the students have a chapter
review as well as a graphing review. Students should review/study their
notes and prepare their folders for a grade.
Thursday: Test chapter 1, with a cumulative review as homework.
Friday: We will review the tests and start talking about chapter 2.
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Monday, August 29th
We will finish less on 1.6, "subtraction" of integers. We will have problems
from the text for homework.
Tuesday: We will check the homework. We will move on the lesson 1.7, but a
review of integer + and - will be included with the 1.7 work.
Wednesday: 1.8 will be a lesson that the students complete in class. They
will work in small groups to apply problem-solving techniques.
I'm not really sure what the homework will be yet. It depends on what the
papers look like from Tuesday night.
Thursday:
Lesson 1.9 deals with multiplication and division of integers. The homework
will either be from the text or the workbook.
Friday: I hope to have an integer operations quiz. We may also look ahead to
graphing on the coordinate plane. Either way, the graphing lesson will be
carried over to next week.
I may just have them work towards an Acc. Math test. The skills I have
entered for them encompass the 6-8th math skills.
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Monday, August 22nd:
We will review the classwork that was turned in last week. We will talk
about reading the first grade sheet that was sent home today.
Class.....We will combine the first two lessons of algebraic expressions and
order of operations. In lesson 1.3, students will evaluate these expressions
using the given values of variables.
A process of write, substitute, and solve should be followed on all problems.
Homework will be from the text.
Tuesday: Lesson 1.4 introduces the basics of integers. We will cover the
lesson notes, complete the group practice, and students will complete a
homework assignment on the skill.
Wednesday: Moving on to lesson 1.5, students will use the concept of
absolute value when adding integer values. Mastery of this concept is
essential to success in this class. I encourage your child to practice this
skill online.
Homework will most likely be a workbook page.
Thursday: We will review integer addition and integer basics. The idea of
writing a subtraction problem of a sum will be introduced. Homework will
be another problem solving set.
Friday: We will check over the homework. We will continue with lesson 1.6.
Students will have an AM exercise
on integer addition and will be able to work on AM testing.
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Monday, August 15th:
Today your children were given a letter with instructions for accessing their
text online. Their PA texts were given in class. We also went over the
requirements specific to my math classes.
This is a great class. It is demanding and the curriculum is designed to meet
the needs and abilities of your child.
I sent a letter home with your child that outlines the rules and consequences
for our team and for my classes. As 6th grade students, all children do know
what is expected. We will reinforce this through our consistent policies on
the teams.
After the information session, we will talk about math corrections.
Corrections are an essential part of the learning process. Students will
practice these with me, and an assignment that reinforces this will be the
homework assignment.
Tuesday: Today we will start in the text. We will define expressions,
classify expressions, and translate verbal expressions into numerical or
variable expressions. Homework will consist of both the practice and reteach
page for lesson 1.1. If you are dowloading these pages from the internet,
the workbook pages will not correspond with the website page. Just use the
lesson numer.
Wednesday: We will review the homework. We will move on to lesson 1.2,
Order of Operations. Small groups will review the lesson during class, using
practice exercises.
A homework assignment will be made on this lesson.
Thursday: We will finish working on order of operations. Students will have
two items for review: One paper has an enrichment activity on translating
expressions. The other side is an order of operations review.
In addition, in touching on basic problem solving work, students have a list
of word problems to complete for tomorrow.
Friday: I plan on giving a review assignment on the first three lessons in
the text. I also hope to start talking about our Acc. Math curriculum.
No homework will be assigned.
