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?