January News
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a marvelous Christmas vacation.
The majority of seventh & eighth grade students did a marvelous job
researching and reporting on their stock companies. Hopefully, they have
learned some tips that they will be able to use later in life.
The following topics will be covered in my math classes:
Students in grade 5 will be multiplying whole numbers and dividing with a
single digit divisor. They will not be permitted to use a calculator. We will
continue to work on the speed and accuracy of our times table facts in
school.
Students in grade 6 will finish chapter 4. They will learn how to divide
decimals by decimals. Next, they will learn about metric units of mass and
capacity and convert metric units of measure. As they start chapter 5, they
will explore some aspects of number theory including divisibility, prime and
composite numbers and factorization.
Students in Grade 7 will also finish chapter 4. They will study factors and
multiples, explore how to convert fractions and decimals to percents and vice-
versa and study the probability of simple events. As they start chapter 5,
they will learn how to solve operations with integers.
Students in Grade 8 will quickly finish chapter 4. They will find the
greatest common factor and least common multiple and use these concepts to
compare and simplify fractions. Finally, students will multiply and divide
monomials and learn how to apply negative exponents in expressions and
equations. They will then skip to chapter 7 and learn how to solve multi-
step equations and inequalities.
Encourage your children to ask questions as math tends to get more difficult
as the year progresses.
