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Here's a link to the greatest math game of all time: Number Munchers!

 

Also, here is a correlation of the TEKS with the chapters from our textbook.

The first Six Week grading period has come to an end.  Actually, it was only five weeks long ... but who's counting?

 

Coming up next week, we are going to continue working on fraction, decimal, and integer operations through word problems.

Our second week has come to a close, bringing us into the long Labor Day weekend.

 

During the week, we have compared Rational Numbers, and found fractional equivalents of decimals and percents.  We've also worked on finding and estimating square roots.  Lastly, we put these skills into practice by arranging various types of rational and irrational numbers in order on a number line.  We finished up this week with a quiz over these topics.

 

Our test over this unit will be on Wednesday of next week.  When we come back on Tuesday, we will get a chance to go over the results of Friday's quiz, and review for the test.  The week will finish up with Scientific Notation.

We are past the administrative-heavy first day, and have completed the first two academic days of school.  Our first assignment was a scavenger activity based upon the order of operations.  We followed that up with a slightly more challenging Fun Park Party worksheet.

 

Today, all of the students recieved any textbooks they hadn't gotten yet.  Afterwards, we did some work with the coordinate plane.  Depending on time, some classes were able to get started on the Gone To Texas worksheet.

 

Tomorrow, we will have a short quiz over ordered pairs, and today's notes can be used as a resource.

There are a few things that I would like you to get for class the first week.  First, you should keep a light jacket or sweater in your locker and bring it to my room.  For some reason, the two temperature choices for the room are sweltering hot or ice cold.  Seriously, it's always freezing in there.  Second, get one of those cheap paper binders with the pockets and brads.  They will be color-coordinated by class period, so Math Lab will need to get red, 2nd period will need orange, 4th period will need yellow, 5th will need green, and 9th will need blue.  We use individual dry-erase boards a lot in this class, so the third thing I would like you to bring is a small pack of the Expo dry-erase markers (fat ones, not the fine point).  Fourth, you will need a red pen for checking papers.  Fifth, bring your positive attitude: your determination will enable you to accomplish anything we will be doing this year.