Week of Dec 14-18

Monday:
Finish Test
3-D figures online
Area of figures
Nets of 3-D figures

Tuesday:
Go over test

Wednesday:
3-D figures online
Area of figures
Nets of 3-D figures

Thursday and Friday:
Surface Area of Rectangular Prisms

Extra Credit Week of Dec 14

In a class of 30 students, 14 are boys. If 2 boys drop out of the class and 2 girls are added, what fraction of the class will be boys?

Extra Credit Week of Dec 7

On her second birthday, Angela was 2 feet 11 inches tall. Today is her 18th birthday, and she is 5 feet 10 inches tall. How many inches per year did she grow, on the average, between the two birthdays?

Week of Dec 7-11

Monday:
8th grade field trip
7th grade: Misleading Statistics book pages 512-515 #1-22

Tuesday:
8th grade: Misleading Statistics
HOMEWORK: 9-8 Practice
7th grade: field trip

Wednesday:
Review for Test
HOMEWORK: study for test

Thursday and Friday:
Statistis Test

Week of Nov 30-Dec 4

Monday:
How mean, median, mode, and range affect data
HOMEWORK: p. 109 worksheet

Tuesday:
Begin looking at graphs of data
HOMEWORK: Let's Get Graphing

Wednesday:
Early Release Intervention day

Thursday:
True/False questions on graphs and data
HOMEWORK: anything that is not finished in class

Friday:
Box-and-whisker graphs

Extra Credit Week of Nov 30

The paper size commonly used in the United States is 8 1/2 by 11 inches. What is the area of a sheet of paper that size?

Week of Nov 23-24

Monday:
Scatterplots: What are they?
HOMEWORK: Scatterplot Match

Tuesday:
Continue with Scatterplots
HOMEWORK: (if not finished in class) Independent Practice with Scatterplots

Week of Nov 16-20

Monday:
Review Loop for upcoming test
HOMEWORK: 8th Sense page 143

Tuesday:
8th grade: Turning Point reveiw for test tomorrow
7th grade: Look over benchmark and make corrections
HOMEWORK FOR ALL: Study for percent test

Wednesday:
Percent Test
HOMEWORK: Mean, Median, Mode, and Range Page

Thursday:
Finish Test

Friday:
Go over Percent Test and analyze data and questions

Extra Credit Week of Nov 16

Brandon had some money of his own. His mother game him $15. He went to a store and spent $80. How much of his own money did he spend?

Week of Nov 9-13

7th GRADE:
Monday:
Commission
HOMEWORK: Commission questions

Tuesday:
Quiz on Percents
Percent of Change
HOMEWORK: 5-8 Word Problems

Wednesday:
7th grade Benchmark

Thursday:
7th Grade Benchmark

Friday:
Tricky Problems
HOMEWORK: Trick or Treat

8th GRADE:
Monday:
Tax and tip
HOMEWORK: Tax and Tip worksheet

Tuesday:
Commission
HOMEWORK: Commission questions

Wednesday:
Quiz on Percents
Percent of Change
HOMEWORK: 5-8 Word Problems

Thursday:
Tricky Problems
HOMEWORK: Trick or Treat

Friday:
Multi-step tricky problems
HOEMWORK: Why did the girl...

Extra Credit Week of Nov 9

There are 75 gumballs in a bag. There are 30 red gumballs, 20 green, 15 yellow, 5 blue, and 5 orange. if you reach into the bag without looking and take out 2 gumballs, what is the probability that you will get 2 green gumballs?

Week of Nov 2-6

Monday:
Analyze the benchmark. Do corrections. Review for test
HOMEWORK: Study for test.

Tuesday:
Proportional Reasoning Test

Wednesday:
Setting up percent proportions
HOMEWORK: Color Code Matching

Thursday:
Discount and sales tax.
HOMEWORK: Shopping Spree

Friday:
8th Grade: Continue Shopping Spree
HOMEWORK: How Do you Make...Worksheet

7th Grade: Tax and Tip, Menu Math in class

Extra Credit Week of Nov 2

Akira bought a skateboard online for $69.99. The shipping charges were $17.98. What was the total amount he had to pay?
Answer: $87.97

Week of Oct 26-30

Monday:
Unit Rates
HOMEWORK: Local Grocery Store find ads and calculate the unit rate

Tuesday:
Benchmark

Wednesday:
Finish Benchmark
HOMEWORK: Proportional Reasoning Homework

Thursday:
Review for Proportional Reasoning Test which is on MONDAY!

Friday:
Field Trip to Texas State University for Team 7-3/8-3

Extra Credit Week of Oct 26

Two elevators going down leave the 10th floor at the same time. One elevator is faster than the other. The faster elevator takes 45 sec between floors. The slower elevator takes 1 min between floors. There are people on ever floor waiting to go down. The first elevator that gets to their floor must stop to pick them up. It takes 3 min for either elevator to stop and pick up passengers. Which elevator will reach the first floor first?
Answer: the faster elevator

Week of Oct 19-23

Monday:
Solving and setting up proportions
HOMEWORK: Solve Proportions Worksheet

Tuesday:
Early Release

Wednesday:
Identify proportional and non-proportional relationships in problem situations.


Thursday:
Continue to identify proportional and non-proportional relationships
HOMEWORK: Proportional vs. Non-Proportional

Friday:
QUIZ
Students will make posters and present information about proportions and non-proportions relationships

Extra Credit Week of Oct 19

Grace bought a valuable sports card at an online auction for $70 plus a shipping charge of $9.00. She later sold it for $105. As a percentage, how much profit did Grace make?

Week of Oct 12-16

Monday:
No School

Tuesday:
Review for Test
HOMEWORK: fill out 3x5 index card to use on test.

Wednesday:
Rational Number Operations Test

Thursday:
Finish Test and look at grades for the first 3 weeks of the six weeks

Friday:
Begin to look and set up proportions.
HOMEWORK: Proportions worksheet. Set up the proportions for each situation

Extra Credit Week of Oct 12

Darrell has 537 ants in his ant farm. Each of them has 6 legs. How many legs is that?

Answer: 3222 legs

Week of Oct 5-9

Monday:
Fraction Lessons. Students will work through various lessons to improve fraction operations.

Tuesday:
Fraction, Decimal, and Integer Loop Cards. Students will work through several word problems.

Wednesday:
QUIZ on fractions, decimals, and integers
Writing Expressions
HOMEWORK: Write Expressions

Thursday:
Checking for reasonableness of answers

Friday:
How does rounding an answer affect the solution

Extra Credit Week of Oct 5

There are 895 students at the King School. There are 33 more girls than there are boys. How many girls are there?

Week of Sept 28-Oct 2

Monday:
Adding and Subtracting Integers
HOMEWORK: 1-4 and 1-5 Word Problems

Tuesday:
Operations with decimals and fractions
HOMEWORK: finish Operations Organizer in notes

Wednesday:
Operations with decimals
HOMEWORK: What Is the Title worksheet on decimal operations

Thursday:
Operations with Fractions
HOMEWORK: How's Business Worksheet on fraction operations

Friday:
Word Problems with fractions and decimals

Extra Credit Week of Sept 28

Clint wants to cook something in the oven at 350 degrees F. The room temperature in the kitchen is 70 degrees F. How much does the oven have to heat up before it is ready?

Answer: 280 degrees

NEWS FLASH

We have a test coming up on TUESDAY! Students will be able to use their interactive notebooks on the test. The notebook should contain all of our notes and homework from the beginning of the school year. The test will cover Problem Solving Model See, Plan, Do, Reflect, Coordinate Plane, and Numerical Reasoning.

ALSO...this is the last week of the first 6 weeks. Any assignments that are still missing will need to be in by Thursday. Make sure your child is turning everything in and take a look at HAC to see up-to-date grades.

Week of Sept 21-25

Monday:
Review Jeopardy for test Tuesday
HOMEWORK: Study for Test

Tuesday:
Numerical Reasoning, Problem Solving, Coordinate Plane TEST

Wednesday:
Begin Operations with Rational Numbers. Students will be multiplying and dividing integers.
HOMEWORK: 1-6 Word Problems

Thursday:
Go over the test. Discuss TEKS on test and graph our results of this test.

Friday:
Re-Test students that scored below a 70% on the test from Tuesday.

Extra Credit Week of Sept 21

How many 3-by-5 inch cards do you need to cover a rectangle 2 feet by 5 feet?

answer: 96

Extra Credit due Sept 18

The Greek philosopher and mathematican Pythagoras lived from 569 BCE to 475 BCE. How long did he live?

Answer: 94 years

Week of Sept 14-18

Monday:
Square and Square Roots
HOMEWORK: Worksheet p. 201 #1-8 only

Tuesday:
Estimate square roots to the nearest whole number and tenth

Wednesday:
Estimate square roots to the nearest tenth
HOMEWORK: Irrational Numbers Puzzles

Thursday:
Scientific Notation
HOMEWORK: Mathworksheetsite page

Friday:
Scientific Notation continued
HOMEWORK: 2-10 Practice and Word Problems

Track YOUR Grades

On Thursday in class, students used the following Excel Spreadsheet to track their grades for the six weeks. We will be using this in class every Friday so students are keeping track of their grades and how certain assignments affect their grades. It would be a great exercise to practice at home as well. You can log onto HAC and get the latest and greatest grades to input into this spreadsheet. Let me know if you experience difficulty or have other questions. Feel free to leave a comment and I can respond!

Student Tracking Sheet

Week of Sept 8-11

Monday:
No School, Labor Day

Tuesday:
Compare and Order Rational Numbers using greater than, less than, and scales. HOMEWORK: Comparing Rational Numbers with Scales

Wednesday:
Continue with Comparing and Ordering HOMEWORK: 2-2 Practice and Word Problems

Thursday:
Look over last nights homework, discuss grades and tracking grades HOMEWORK: Work on any missing assignments for grade reports on Monday!

Friday:
Comparing and Ordering Rational Number Stations

Extra Credit Week of Sept 8 (due Sept 11)

William lives in Massachusetts where there is a 5% sales tax on everything sold in stores except food and clothing. He went to a store and bought a shirt for $29.99, a CD for $18.99, and a pen for $2.00. How much did he have to pay?

September 4th Notes

Sept 4 Notes

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Numerical Reasoning Unit

Today we started our Numerical Reasoning Unit. Below is our unit organizer to see where we are going and what is next. As you can see we will be having a test on September 22! Be on the look out for more information.

Unit Numerical Reasoning

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Course Organizer

Here is a great organizer to see all that we are doing in math class this year. It has all of our units that we will cover and 12 essential questions for the year.

Course Organizer

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Extra Credit Week of August 31

Agnes's father is 6 times as old as she is. In 4 years, he will be four times as old. How old are they now?

This extra credit problem is due by September 4 to the extra credit basket in my room. Good Luck!

Week of August 31-September 4

Monday: Problem Solving model called See, Plan, Do, Reflect. HOMEWORK: Complete the Orange Problem using the see, plan, do, reflect model.

Tuesday: Continue with Problem Solving. We will review the homework from last night and take a group QUIZ on using the Problem Solving Model correctly.

Wednesday: Coordinate Planes. We will be taking an outdoor adventure to get inside a giant coordinate plane. Students will be finding and plotting points. HOMEWORK: What is a real-world application to a coordinate plane? Bring an example if you find one.

Thursday: Continue with Coordinate Planes. Students will be decoding secret messages from their friends using points on a Coordinate Plane, this will be taken as a project grade. HOMEWORK: Graphiti Worksheet.

Friday: Introduction to new unit on Numberical Reasoning. Students will be converting between fractions, decimals, and percents. We will also be making a foldable to help them keep all conversion methods straight. HOMEWORK: Conversion Practice Worksheet (this will be taken as a quiz grade).

The First Days

Ahhh...the first days of school. They are so crazy and exhausting, but yet so fun and exciting. I have met so many wonderful students. Names are going around and around my head. I am very excited for this school year. We are going to have a blast and smack that TAKS Test in the face with our knowledge! I can't wait to meet all the parents to these bright shining faces! September 10th Open House!!!

Keep looking here for updates on homework, projects, assignments, and so much more.

Happy 2009-2010 School Year!

TAKS Prep

On the right hand side you will find the TAKS Prep links. You can use the interactive software or the book in pdf.

Extra Credit Opportunity

We are going to talk about Nets of 3-D figures in class and I need a good website to use. If you can find a website that has the nets of a cube, triangular prism, rectangular prism, square pyramid, triangular pyramid, cone, and cylinder email it to me. If it meets the requirements of the TEK 7.8B: make a net of the surface area of a three dimensional figure, you will get extra credit. Happy hunting!

March 9-13

On Level students will begin our unit on area and perimeter. We have soooo much to cover in a short amount of time that we need to bring our "A" game to class everyday! If we all give 100% we can make this work. We will find the area and perimeter of squares, rectangles, parallelograms, triangles, trapezoids and circles.

Accelerated students will finish the area and perimeter unit with composite figures. Then on Tuesday and Wednesday we will cover measurement conversions with Versatiles. Review Thursday and TEST on Friday.

Spring Break is coming! Keep focused for just one more week!

ATTENTION ACCELERATED STUDENTS

I made a mistake on the homework. Don't worry about the worksheet on area and perimeter. We will discuss it in class on Monday.

March 2 - 6

On Level students will be finishing our geometric properties unit. We will work on transformations: reflections and translations. Then TEST ON FRIDAY! The test will be over angles, complementary and supplementary, triangles, quadrilaterals, and transformations.
Accelerated students will continue with area and perimeter. We will look at circles, irregular figures, and composite figures this week.

Question: Are all squares rectangles?

Feb 23-27

Regular Math: This week we will take an adventure into triangles and quadrilaterals. We will look at these polygons and make conjectures and generalizations about the relationships of sides and angles. On Friday we will have a quiz on complementary, supplementary, triangles, and quadrilaterals so be ready.

Accelerated Math: This week we will finish our unit on transformations and geometric properties. Monday will be complementary and supplementary angles then we will review and take a test on Wednesday. Then we will move into area and perimeter.

Angle Practice

Click on one of the links to the right under angle practice to play a fun game on angles. Remember that a complementary angle equals 90 degrees and supplementary angle equals 180 degrees. Have fun!

Review Answers

Remember that the Benchmark is tomorrow!

Benchmark Answers

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Accelerated Semester Exam Review Answers

Accel Semester Review Answers

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Accelerated Semester Review Answers

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Regular Semester Review Answers

Regular Semester Review Answers

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Exam Schedule

Monday Exams will be for 1st period and 2nd period students.
Tuesday Exams will be for 7th period and 8th period students.
Wednesay Exams will be for 3rd period, 4th period, and 6th period students.

Semester Exams

The Semester Exams are coming up next week. Students will be taking a Math test that will cover all material taught this year:
Problem Solving
Squares and Square Roots
Order of Operations
Integers
Coordinate Plane
Compare and Order Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
Decimal and Fraction Operations
Algebraic Relationships
Rates, Ratios, and Scaling
Percent Applications
*Scientific Notation
*Pythagorean Theorem
*Proportionality

*is for Accelerated classes only. Accelerated classes will cover all of this material. Regular classes will not cover * material.

I have posted a review test online at www.tmsds.org On Thursday students were given their User Names and Passwords so they can go online and take this practice test.

Please take the time to study old tests, review sheets, and your notes. These Semester Exams are serious and will affect your grade.