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Your parents will be notified via e-mail if homework completion becomes an
issue.
Nov.24,2009 Bring in any materials you want to add to your Favorite Formula
Posters.
Pre-Alg. Complete page 153 #1-24 and bring in any materials you will need for
the timeline project due Dec. 4th.
THERE WILL NO HW OVER THANKSGIVING BREAK BECAUSE THIS IS A TIME TO SPEND WITH
YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.
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Archived info from Pre-Alg. last year:
Week of Sept. 9th
Classroom rules
Chp.one daily ex.1.1 and 1.2
Week of Sept.16th
Daily ex. 1.3
Problem Solving Strategies 1.4
Key words
Properties of whole numbers
Week of Sept.23rd
Daily 1.6
ws1.8 exponents
Careers in Math video
Week of Sept. 30th
Order of operations
Daily 1.9
Week of Oct.7th
Started chp. 2
Sample test chp one
Week of Oct. 14th
Distributive property
Combining Like terms
Math Mystery-The Phantom of the Bell Tower
Fibonacci Sequence
Week of October 21st
Started functions 2.6
Did 2.7 checking the answer
Explained Pascal's Triangle
Week of October 28th
Started scientific notation
Started chp 3 Venn Diagram on our system of numeration
Did addition of integers
We visited Tri-County on 10-28-05
Week of Nov. 4th
Did subtraction of integers
Did multiplication and division of integers
Did evaluating expressions
Week of Nov. 11th
Did practice 35-making a table
Did graphing (x,y) coordinate geometry
Week of November 18th
Graphing functions-absolute value, quadratic, exponential, and linear
Cat drawings- translations
Watched Pizza Perfect Caper - a math detective sto
Week of Nov. 23
Started chp 4
One step equations
MATERIAL for second notebook check
Week of Dec. 2nd
Using muly. or division to solve one-step equations
Passed out a list of key math words for addition,subtraction,division, and
multiplication
Week of Dec.9th
Talked about favorite formulas-D=rt etc.
Did more work on 2 step-equations
Week of Dec. 16th
Origami
Started chp. 5
Pictographs and Bar graphs
Week of Dec. 22nd
We went to see a play in Boston
Talked about choosing the appropriate graph-practice 59
We also made booklets on the types of graphs we have studied.
Week of Jan. 6th
Talked about problems with too much or too little information-practice 60
Talked about the Mean, Median, Mode, and Range
Viewed the Great Zoo Design movie
Talked about choosing the appropriate statistic
Week of Jan. 13th
The greaT M & M experiment was conducted to calculate the mean, mode,
median,
and range of the colors in a small bag of candy.
Started Data Collection and Frequency Distribution tables
Week of Jan. 20th
Started Geometry chapter 6-basic terms-point,line,ray, etc.
Complementary,Supplementary angles
Week of January 27th
Measured angles
Talked about parallel and perpendicular lines
Week of February 3rd
Triangle theorem-Any two sides have to be greater than the third side
Notes on types of Quadrilaterals
Explained symmetry
Started chp.7 Factoring-factor trees
Week of February 10th
GCF and LCM explained
Tangrams collected
Collected timelines
Watched Manor House Mystery on geometry
MATERIAL FOR THE THIRD NOTEBOOK QUIZ IS BELOW THIS LINE
Week of February 17th
Notes on 7.4
Notes on 7.6 Comparing Fractions
Cut and paste number line activity on rational nos. was completed
Students took a geometry test right before vacation
Week of February 24th-Vacation
Week of March 4th
Did notes 7.10 graphing sentences-< or >
Did notes 7.11 on negative and zero exponents as well as scientific notation
for very small nos.
Started chp. 9 notes on 9.1 Ratios and Proportions
Week on March 10th
Started percent collages in class
Watched a video on scale drawings-Seaside Park was the title of the movie
Did a ws called Talking PerCents on finding the % of a Number
Passed out a chart giving common decimal, fraction, and percent equivalents.
Week of March 17th
Pi Day
Discount and sale price
Commission
Week of March 24th
Simple Interest explained
Percents of increase or decreaseStarted chp 10 -perimeter
Week of March 31st
Circumference
Area of circles
Congruent and similar figures
Week of April 7th
Areas of circles
Indirect measurement
Started Pyhtagorean Property
Week of April14th
Square roots
Started chp 11 Stem and Leaf plots
Histograms
Frequency Tables
