Mrs. Hudgins's Pre-algebra Lesson Plans (Students who receive special services may have their assignments shortened or graded on different scales, but should do as much of the regular assignments as they can)
*Alabama Course of Study Skills will be highlighted in yellow. Graduation Skills will be highlighted blue. Stanford or ARM Test Skills will be underlined. Course of Study and Graduation skills combined will be highlighted in green Graduation skills and Stanford skills that overlap will be blue and underlined; Stanford skills that overlap with Course of Study skills will be underlined and highlighted in yellow; all three, if overlapping, will be green and underlined.
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Week 10, final week, 4th Quarter 5/26-5/29
Tuesday 5/26 Obj: To practice probability. Use interactive video "Deal or No Deal" and number cubes
Wednesday 5/27 Field Day
Thursday 5/28 8th graders go to high school. 7th graders and afternoon classes will view video "Math - Who Needs It?"
Friday 5/29 Last Day of School. Students will evaluate the year as we discuss ways to improve for next year. We will read passages out of the book You Can Be The Best by Jim Davidson.
Week 9, 4th Quarter 5/18-5/22
Monday 5/18 Obj: To do test corrections and final month (5) on project Future Sense. Draw "Life Happens" cards and balance your budgets. 8th grade classes will make final plans for "Sell"abration- bring old magazines and markers to use Tuesday & Wednesday.Turn in math books if you didn't bring them Friday.
Tuesday 5/19 Obj: 4-7th periods will make and hang signs to advertise "Sell"abration 7th grade morning classes will attend Awards Day
Wednesday 5/20 Obj: To finish up Future Sense simulation and decorate covers and turn in. Draw "Communities Change" cards that depict what possible events might occur that affect lots of "citizens" in our "communities". Write a summary essay about what you've learned. Turn in project folders today.
Thursday 5/21 Obj: To draw scale drawings on houses or apartments and vehicles.
Friday 5/22 Obj; To take notes on interactive video on the economics of home ownership. "Sell"abration 6th & 7th periods.
Tuesday 5/19 Obj:
Week 8 , 4th Quarter 5/11 - 5/15
Monday 5/11 Obj; To view the interactive video " Check It Out" and fill out the notetaking guide-turn in today . CHW: Explain in a few sentences how to reconcile your checkbook register to the bank statement.
Tuesday 5/12 Obj: To take a notebook check on project notebook and do month 4 on budget, beginning with new averages.
Wednesday 5/13 Obj: To learn the significance of saving. Fill out notetaking guide to "Pay Yourself First" interactive video. Homework: Get the parent letter signed.
Thursday 5/14 Obj: To compute profits and losses of business ventures. Discuss and begin making plans for "Sell"abration that is next Friday.
Friday 5/15 Obj: To review, quiz and practice skills we've been working on. Quiz on keeping a checkbook balance, reconciling with the bank statement, computing profits and losses, and computing savings using compound interest.
Week 7, 4th Quarter 5/4 - 5/8
Monday 5/4 Obj: 8th graders go to work with their parents. 7th graders (1st & 2nd periods) are going to make "improvements" on their "properties" by making signs, covering the backs of their seats with pillowcases that they decorate, decorating the sides of their seats by using poster boards or large cardboard boxes or doing other creative things they want to on or near their "neighborhood".. Bring any kinds of materials you can to use and share - such as old vinyl tablecloths, markers, boxes, old pillowcases, sheets, etc.
Tuesday 5/5 Obj: To investigate interests/career paths. In the computer lab, we will use the internet to fill out interest inventories.
Wednesday 5/6 Obj: To debate the pros and cons of having checking accounts and to learn how to fill out checks and check stubs correctly. CHW Worksheet "Check Stubs and Registers" both sides
Thursday 5/7 Obj: To learn how to reconcile (balance) a bank statement with a register balance. CW: Work through worksheet "Reconciling a Bank Statement" together. CHW Back of that worksheet ( Writing Checks continued)
Friday 5/8: To review, quiz and practice on hourly wages, commissions, costs of installment purchases and computing total food bills including taxes and tips and writing checks and reconciling bank statements. Let students "show off" their "potato babies" , then do warmups and quiz.
Week 6, 4th quarter 4/27 - 5/1
Monday 4/27 Obj: To go over Friday's quiz, do corrections and to practice computing hourly wages and commissions. CHW: Commission worksheet #5
Tuesday 4/28 Obj: To find mean, median, mode, range, and outliers of grades on progress reports, and to begin on month 2's budget. Refigure monthly gross based on new averages, add any money left over from month 1 and refigure the budget. CHW: Complete your monthly budget for month 2 based on your new higher or lower average. Draw "Life Happens" cards if time permits
Wednesday 4/29 Obj: To catch up on any work not completed in project folder to prepare for tomorrow's notebook check on pages 1-8
Thursday 4/30Obj: To take a notebook check and to compute the higher costs of installment purchases. CHW: Basic Worksheet for 274 - 275 "How much more does the installment plan cost?"
Friday 5/1 Obj:To determine the cost of eating out versus eating at home. Let groups choose meals for their "families" from menus and compute the total cost plus taxes and tips, and then multiply those results by 2 (assuming that breakfast and lunch "out" would each be about 1/2 the cost of dinner) and then multiply by 30 for a total monthly cost. CHW: Make 30 meal plans for 30 well balanced breakfasts, lunches, and dinners at home. From grocery ads, mom's help, or by actual prices in the grocery store, compute the total cost.
Week 5, 4th Quarter 4/21-4/24
Tuesday 4/21 Obj: To "auction" off property, let students choose which rental properties they can afford, and begin on budgets. CHW: Budget worksheet
Wednesday 4/22 Obj: To complete budgets for "month 1" , and to draw circumstance cards. CHW: Worksheets on hourly wages
Thursday 4/23 Obj: To compute hourly wages CHW: Worksheets on hourly wages
Friday 4/24 Obj: To quiz on hourly wages, gross pay and net pay
Week 4, 4th Quarter 4/14 - 4/16
Tuesday 4/14 Obj: To take "last" notebook check & discuss "Future $en$e" project. CHW: Write an essay about the 3 possible careers or vocations you are interested in. This will be page one in your project folder..
Wednesday 4/15 Obj: To take Algebra placement test
Thursday 4/16 Obj: To begin "Future $en$e" simulation. Do now, please: Make a line plot, a frequency chart, a stem and leaf plot, a histogram and a box and whiskers graph of your grades. Use your average(mean) and multiply your average by a number I will give your class for your "monthly gross pay". We will flip coins to determine marital status, spin spinners to determine # of dependents, and compute gross pay based on their averages. If time permits, we will compute net pay and begin our "property" auction (seats).
Week 3, 4th Quarter 4/6
Monday 4/6 SAT Language/OLSAT testing in the morning 1st & 2nd periods will meet in the afternoon and finish the video started Friday.
Tuesday 4/7 AMSTI "Samples and Populations" 1.1 CHW: Page 536 # 1-6 (&7 1st & 2nd periods)
Wednesday 4/8 AMSTI "Samples and Populations" 1.2 CHW Page 553 # 1
Thursday 4/9 Finish up state tests in the morning Afternoon classes will view math videos and fill in a notetaking guide
Friday 4/10 AMSTI "Samples and Populations" 1.3
Week 2, 4th Quarter 3/30-4/3
Monday: 3/30ARMT testing in the morning. Afternoon classes will review computation for Wednesday's SAT''s.
Tuesday 3/31ARMT testing in the morning. Afternoon classes will review computation for Wednesday's SAT's.
Wednesday 4/1 SAT math test in the morning. Free time outside in the aftenoon.
Thursday 4/2 SAT reading test in the morning. Afternoon classes use manipulatives, puzzles, and games.
Friday 4/3 Video "Stand and Deliver"
Week 1, 4th Quarter, 3/23-3/27
Monday 3/23-Friday 3/27 Obj: To review and practice for state tests. CW. Go over state objectives using practice materials provided by the state. Monday we will go over state objective #6 (Packet we use will depend on how far we got 3/13 or the class period on the previous day.) CHW Practice worksheets
Monday 3/23 Skill # 6 CHW: Finish both graphs started 3/13
Tuesday 3/24 Skill # 7 & 8 for 7th grade, Skill # 7 for 8th grade. CHW Worksheet 2-3
Wednesday 3/25 Skill # 9 & 10 CHW worksheet Reteaching 2.4
Thursday 3/26 Skill # 11 & 12 for 8th grade, 11 & part of 12 for 7th grade CHW worksheet Reteaching 2.8
Friday 3/27 Finish up skills in both grades. No homework. Backs of 2-4 & 2-8 for extra credit due week after next.
Week 10 (last week) 3rd Quarter 3/9-3/13
Monday 3/9 Obj: To review and practice for state tests. CW: Computation problems with gridding CHW Practice worksheets
Tuesday 3/10 Obj: To review and practice for state tests CW: Go over State obj # 1 CHW Practice worksheets
Wednesday 3/11 Obj: To review and practice for state tests. CW: Go over State obj #2&3 CHW Practice worksheets
Thursday 3/12 Obj: To review and practice for state tests. CW: Go over State obj: #5 CHW Practice worksheets
Friday 3/13 Obj: To practice graphing ordered pairs. Do Now, Please: Notebook test. CHW: Graph sheet
Week 9, 3rd Quarter 3/2-3/6/2009
(There will be several students out this week going to the BETA convention, and these plans are tentative) Students - check the board to make sure you make up work missed within 5 days of excused absences.
Monday 3/2 Obj: To review and practice for upcoming state tests. CW: Do Practice test from Red booklets pages 69-79 1-50 CHW: Workbook page 4.7
Tuesday 3/3 Obj: To review and practice for upcoming state tests. CW: Go over the formatting of the ARMT, look at samples of the reference page, and look at samples of how to answer a gridded and free response questions. CHW: workbook page 4.8
Wednesday 3/4 Obj: To go over practice test taken Monday and do corrections. CHW workbook 5.2
Thursday 3/5 Obj: To review and practice for ARMT. Work through practice materials. CHW workbook 5.3
Friday 3/6 Obj: To review and practice for ARMT and SAT. Do Warmups, quiz on review work done this week using gridded and free response format. CHW wkbk 5.6
Week 8, 3rd Quarter 2/23-2/27/09 (Due to athletic pictures, thinklinklearning tests and assembly, some classes did not meet and these lessson plans were just that- plans - some of which we didn't accomplish)
Monday 2/23 Obj: To review for the Stanford Test on procedures. CW Practice Test from red booklets pages 81-84. CHW workbook page 4.5
Tuesday 2/24 Obj: To go over practice test taken yesterday. Do Now, Please: Notebook test. CHW wkbk4.6
Wednesday 2/25 Obj; To review for Stanford Test problem solving. Do Practice test from red booklets pages 69-79. CHW wkbk 5.7
Thursday 2/26 Obj: To go over practice test taken yesterday. CHW wkbk 6.2
Friday 2/27 Obj: To review, quiz and practice on skills most often missed on this week's review. Do Now, Please: Warmups on a c.s.o.p., quiz on front. CHW: Math Literacy worksheet.
Week 7, 3rd quarter 2/17-2/20
Tuesday 2/17 Obj: To review and practice computation. Do Now, Please; Read the explanations and study the examples at the top of pages 714-719 CW: Left columns only on pages714, 715,716.717,718,719 -they may come up and check their answers and go back and do as many additional problems from the left columns on pages 719, 720, 721, etc., until they get 50 correct answers for 100 points. Turn in when finished with 50 correct. CHW: 25 problems from the right columns starting on page 714 through page 716.
Wednesday 2/18 Obj: To go over Friday's test and do corrections and continue review of basic computation skills of multiplying and dividing by powers of ten. Do Now, Please: Copy the questions you missed on Friday's test. CHW: Get corrections signed and do page 721
Thursday 2/19 Obj: To continue review of basic computation skills. Do Now, Please: Write a note to a friend who wasn't here yesterday explaining how to multiply and divide with powers of ten. CHW 2nd column pages 720, 722 & 723
Friday 2/20 Obj: To review and practice changing improper fractions to mixed numbers and vice versa and adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators. Do Now, Please: Work on the calculator problem for 5 minutes. CW: Multiples of 5 pages 724 & odd page 725. CHW even page 726
Week 6, 3rd quarter 2/9-2/13/2009
Monday 2/9 Obj: To find circumferences and areas of circles using calculators and formulas. Do Now, Please #1-3 page 464. CW pge 450 # 1-6. CHW 9-45 odd page 450
Tuesday 2/10 Obj: To find surface areas of prisms and cylinders using nets for prisms and formulas for cylinders. Do Now, Please: Add 100 to your progress report and re-compute your mean, median, mode, range and list any outliers. CHW 1-14 page 491
Wednesday 2/11 Obj: To find volumes of prisms and cylinders. Do Now, Please 1-3 page 500. CW Sheet 9-6. CHW 1-10 page 503
Thursday 2/12 Obj: To review and practice with angles, perimeter, circumference, area, surface area, and volume. CW: Review basketball. CHW: Take home test for classes that earned the preparedness party. Practice test for other classes.
Friday 2/13: Preparedness party for 2nd period and perhaps 1st period.. Test for other classes. No homework.
Week 5, 3rd quarter 2/2-2/6, 2009
Monday 2/2 Obj: To do quiz corrections and begin St. Jude's Mathathon. Do Now, Please: View the St. Jude's Mathathon video.. Do quiz corrections and begin working in Mathathon Funbooks. Partiticpation in the fund raiser is optional, and must be with parent's permission. Doing the review pages in the funbook and showing your necessary work will be for grade(s) and is not optional. The fundraiser donations will be due in two weeks, along with the completed booklets. All students who raise at least $35 will receive a t shirt and a free admission ticket to Six Flags. Other prizes will be awarded for higher donations. Every student will get an $8 discount coupon in the funbook.
Tuesday 2/3 Obj: To classify triangles and polygons. Do Now, Please: Notebook check on homework from 2/20 - 1/30. CHW page 432 1-43 odd
Wednesday 2/4 Obj: To practice working with exponents.Do Now, Please: Copy the concept map on page 434 CHW Do Reteaching worksheets (front sides only) of 7.1, 7.2,7.3,7.4
Thursday 2/5 Obj: To find angle measures of polygons. Do Now, Please: 1-6 page 436. CW: page 438 1-41 odd. CHW 2-40 even
Friday 2/6 Obj: To find areas of polygons. Do Now, Please: 1-3 page 441. CW 2-30 even page 444-446. CHW 1-20 odd. You may use a calculator IF you write down the formula, substitute into it and show you answer on each problem ( that will be 3 lines) For example: For area of a triangle with base of 6', height of 10' - A= 1/2 bh( line 1); A = 1/2 X 6 X 10 (line 2); A = 30 square feet( line 3)
eek 4, 3rd quarter 1/26-1/30
Monday 1/26 Obj; To do test corrections and write to and from scientific notation. Do Now, Please: Test corrections. CHW 3's - 60 page 367 - 369
Tuesday 1/27 Obj: To use exponents when multiply and dividing with the same bases, when raising a power to a power or a product to a power, Do Now, Please: left column page 364. CHW page 400 1-30
Wednesday 1/28 Obj: To identify and use pairs of angles. Do Now, Please: Read and summarize "Math At Work" page 412 CW 1-40 odd page 410, CHW 2-50 even page 410
Thursday 1/29 Obj; To find measures of angles formed by parallel lines. Do Now, Please Make a valentine for a couple of angles that might say something cute or clever like " You're my adjacent angle and I always want you by my side!" CW page 418 # 1-17 CHW multiples of 3-54 page 419 4th & 6th periods. 1st & 2nd periods' CHW multiples of 3-54 page 418.
Friday 1/30 Obj; To review, quiz and practice. Do Now, Please: Warm-ups for quiz on back of a c.s.o.p., quiz on front, CHW 1-4 page 428.
Week 3, 3rd Quarter 1/20 - 1/23
Tuesday 1/20 Obj: To find simple and compound interest. Do Now, Please: Quiz Corrections on Friday's quiz. CHW 1-12 page 344 ( may use a calculator on compound interest problems only.
Wednesday 1/21 Obj: To illustrate a sample space and to find probabilities. Do Now, Please 1-6 page 349. CHW: Multiples of 3 through # 39 page 352.
Thursday 1/22 Obj: To review chapter 6 for tomorrow's chapter test. Do Now, Please 1-3 page 355. Use clickers to do review. CHW pages 356 & 357 ( check your answers in the back of the book, but do them first, showing any necessary work)
Friday 1/23 Obj: To review, test and practice. Do Now, Please: Warmups for test CHW: Reading and Literacy Worksheet 7A & 7B
Week 2, 3rd Quarter
Monday 1/12 Obj: To do quiz corrections and find % of change. Do Now, Please: Quiz corrections. CHW 1-20 page 328
Tuesday 1/13 Obj: To find % of markup and discount and to find sale prices. Do Now, Please: # 35 page 336. CW 1-17 page 334. CHW page 336 # 37, 38, 41-46.
Wednesday 1/14 Obj: To practice finding percent of change and mixed review. Do Now, Please: What % of this class are boys? CW: Page 341 all.
Thursday 1/15 Obj: To solve word problems using proportions and other methods. Do Now, Please: #1-6 page 331. CHW 1-14 pages 339 & 340.
Friday 1/16 Obj: To review, quiz & practice. Do Now, Please: Warmups for quiz on back of a c.s.o.p., combination quiz and notebook test on front. No homework.
Week 1, 3rd Quarter
Tuesday 1/6 Obj: To practice changing fractions to decimals to percents. Do Now, Please: In your own words, describe what the term "percent" means. CHW: Wkbk page 6-1
Wednesday 1/7 Obj: To estimate with percents. Do Now, Please: #1-7 page 309 CHW; 1-20 page 312-313.
Thursday 1/8 Obj: To use proportions to solve percent problems. Do Now, Please # 1-7 page 314. CHW: Left side of page 317 SYW!
Friday 1/9 Obj: To review, quiz and practice changing fractions to decimals to percents, estimating, and using proportions to solve percent problems. Do Now, Please: Warmups on back of c.s.o.p. Quiz on front. CHW: Wkbk 6-3
Week 8, 2nd Quarter
Monday 12/8 Obj: To use proportions to find measure indirectly using similar figures. Do Now, Please 1-4 top of page 282. CW Wkbk 5.8 CHW: 1-23 pages 284-286
Tuesday 12/9 Obj: To use dilations and find the scale factor & to review chapter 5. CW: Do Review "soccer" using problems from chapter 5. Let the class divide into boy or girl teams and send one "forward" to the board to do each problem for a point. All students must do all problems on their papers & turn in. CHW page 294 #1-30 (all answers are in the back of the book, so check them)
.Wednesday 12/10 Obj: To test on chapter 5 Do Now, Please: Warmups and/or questions on homework. Test. CHW: Math literacy sheet from chapter 5.
Thursday 12/11 Obj: To go over test on chapter 5 & review chapters 1 -3CHW Practice test on chapters 1-3
Friday 12/12 Obj: To review chapters 4 & 5 Do Now, Please: Notebook test. CHW: Practice test on chapers 4 & 5
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Week 9, 2nd Quarter
Monday12/15 Obj: To review chapters 1-5 for exam Do Now, Please: Fold your paper into 4 columns and label them Q,A X,and R.. Q- copy the questions below, A- answer by explaining in words X - Work out an example R-. Devise a way to remember foreverand study for tomorrow's exam.
How do you…..
(These are the skills on the semester exam-I promise)
Tuesday 12/16 Obj: Semester exam on chapters 1-5
Wednesday 12/17 Obj: To go over semester exam and solve word problems. Do Now, Please: Copy the questions you missed on exam and do corrections,and get signed CHW: Page 1-10 page 256
Thursday 12/18 Obj: To change fractions to decimals and percents in any order. Do Now, Please: 1-7 page 303. CHW 1-59 odd page 306
Friday 12/19 Obj: To design, draw, write equations for, and exchange and graph each other's Christmas pictures. CW: (The drawing should have between 7 and 10 straight lines and should be in all 4 quadrants) Students should graph using at least one from each method of ordered pairs and slope/intercept methods. The designs can be simple like a Christmas tree, a star, a wrapped gift, a simple garment like a shirt or dress, etc. After completing the graphs, they may have to erase the portions of the lines that "stick out" and are not needed to complete the picture. . No homework
Week 7, 2nd Quarter
Monday 12/1 Obj: To write rates and ratios in simplest form and to find unit rates. Do Now, Please: Show by dividing and finding the unit rate which would be the better price 5.5 ounces for $.95 or 22 ounces for$3.77. CHW Workbook pages 5.1 both sides
Tuesday 12/2 Obj: To convert and choose the appropriate metric and customary units. Do Now, Please: 1-6 top of page 248. CW: 1-53 odd pages 251 & 252 work with a partner. CHW: Due Monday 12/8: Find and cut out and glue pictures or sentences from magazines, advertisements, or newspapers or labels of 10 things that are the size, weight, or volume of the ten of the measures in the unit column on the chart on page 248. For example, a picture of a shoe or a foot could represent approximately 1 foot in length. A meter could be represented by a crib sheet, 1/10 of a football field, or carpet that is advertised by the yard, since a yard and a meter are almost the same.. The capacity or volume and weight measures could easily be found in a grocery ad ( a quart or gallon of milk, a 2 or 3 liter soft drink, a pound of meat). The kilogram, kilometer and ton might be found in car advertisements or magazine articles promoting mpg or kpg.
Wednesday 12/3 Obj: To solve proportions. Do Now, Please: 1-5 top of page 258. CW Page 262 # 9-16 CHW: Workbook page 5-4 Reteaching side
Thursday 12/4 Obj: To solve proportions involving similar figures. Do Now, Please1-5 top of page 265. CW 1-11 page268. CHW: Workbook page 5-5
Friday 12/5 Obj: To use proportions to solve problems, such as finding distances represented on maps and finding sizes using models. Do Now, Please: 1-5 page 278. CW 1-39 odd. CHW 2-38 even pages 279-281
Week 6, 2nd Quarter
Monday 11/24 Obj: To write ratios and rates in simplest form and to find unit rates. Do Now, Please # 36 on page 247. CHW 1-30 Page 245
Tuesday 11/25 Obj: To practice writing rates, ratios and finding unit rates. Do Now, Please: Write a ratio in lowest terms of the number of girls in this room (excluding teachers) to the number of boys. CW: Finish 31-46 pages 246-247 -turn in 11/21-11/25's work today. No homework
Week 5, 2nd Quarter
Monday 11/17 Obj: To use the Pythagorean Theorem to find missing sides of right triangles and to determine if a triangle actually is a right triangle. Do Now, Please: View the video on the Pythagorean Theorem. CW 1-10 page 228 CHW: Workbook pages 4-9 - both sides
Tuesday 11/18 Obj: To understand the difference between rational and irrational numbers. Do Now, Please: Copy the diagram on page 223. Explain the Number Families Poster* due Friday. HW 1-71 odd pages 223 & 225..
Wednesday 11/19 Obj: To review chapters 1-4. Do Now, Please: Draw a baseball diamond on your paper and do the problems within it that we do in class today to review chapters 1-4. CHW: Page 234 & 235 (all the answers are in the back of the book, so check them after you do them)
Thursday 11/20 Obj: To test on chapters 1-4. Do Now, Please: Warm ups of back of a c.s.o.p. Show your test work on the front. CHW: Finish your number families poster.
Friday 11/21 Obj: To do test corrections, notebook test and to diagnose readiness for chapter 5. Do Now, Please: Notebook test. CHW: Finish test corrections, get signed and do page 242 # 1-24.
*Number Families Poster- Find pictures from old magazines or the internet of an old person to represent Real Numbers, a "crazy-looking" or a person who dresses or looks bizarre to represent the Irrational Numbers, an intelligent, "got-it-together" or well dressed person to represent Rational Numbers, a very negative, mean or angry person to represent Integers, a round or very fat person to represent Whole Numbers, and a baby or toddler to represent Counting ( Natural) Numbers. Draw a Family Tree type of diagram with Real Numbers at the top, split into Rationals and Irrationals, with Rationals' "offspring" being Integers, Integers producing Whole Numbers and Whole Numbers producing Counting Numbers. Beside each "branch" of the tree, place the appropriate picture and the definition of the number set. Most of the definitions are in the text book, but we will go over together all the details in class on Tuesday. Try to make your poster unique ( borders, draw in frames, dimensions, colors, shapes, etc.).
Week 4, 2nd Quarter
Monday 11/10/08 Obj: To solve word problems by the try, check and revise and work backwards strategies. Do Now, Please 1-4 page 217. CHW 1-15 page 218 & 219
Wednesday 11/12 Obj: To find square roots by guess, check, and revise method and to learn the number family names and classifications. Do Now, Please 1-6 page 221. CW: Find square roots of the numbers on the board using the guess, multiply and revise method. CHW: Begin working on Number Families Posters - due Tuesday of next week. Look in old magazines or the internet and find pictures of a baby or little kid, a round or fat person, a person who is very negative looking (mean or angry), a person who appears to be successful and well groomed and sane , a really old person, and a strange, bizarre or crazy- looking person.
Thursday 11/13 Obj; To find areas and lengths using AMSTI materials working in groups of 2-4 students. Do Investigation 2 using dot paper and geoboards to find areas and lengths of sides. Use Labheeet 2.1 CHW: both sides of worksheet 2.1 - on the back draw 4 different "upright" squares and 4 tilted squares and find the areas of each.
Friday 11/14 Obj; To discover the Pythagorean formula using AMSTI materials and working in groups of 2-4 students. Do problem 3.1 - copy and complete chart using dot paper. Do labsheet 3.2 - cut apart the 2 puzzle frames and 11 puzzle pieces and arrange them in the frames and look for a relationship. Homework - finish the chart and see if you can figure out a rule about the squares of the legs and the square of the hypotenuse
Week 3, 2nd Quarter
Monday 11/3 Obj: To practice listing all factors and factoring into prime factors. Do Now, Please: Quiz corrections on Friday's quiz. CHW Workbook page 4.1 both sides
Tuesday 11/4 Obj: To practice changing fractions to mixed numbers to decimals in any order. Do Now, Please: Fill in chart from the board of fractions to mixed numbers to decimals, given any of the 3 forms. CHW Workbook 4.2 both sides
Wednesday 11/5 Obj: To use formulas to find areas, perimeters, etc. Do Now, Please: Explain, in writing, and give an example of how you would figure out how fast you traveled if you knew how far you went and how long it took. CW :page 214 & 215 even CHW page 214 & 215 Odd.
Thursday 11/6 Obj: To review, quiz, and practice: Do Now, Please: Warmups on back of a c.s.o.p. Quiz on front
Friday 11/7 Obj: To review and practice using computers in the flex lab.
Week 2, 2nd Quarter
Monday 10/27 Obj: To multiply and divide rational numbers. Do Now, Please: Quiz corrections on Friday's quiz. CHW 1-12, 19-31 page 208
Tuesday 10/28 Obj: To add and subtract rational numbers. Do Now, please: 1-5 @ top of page 205. CW page 203 left side through #26(1,5,9,13,17,21,25,26) CHW: page 203 multiples of 4-24 ( # 4, 8,12,16,20,24)
Wednesday 10/29 Obj: To practice adding and subtracting rational numbers with solving equations. Do Now, Please: 1-7 page 201, CW # 27 - 32 page 203,CHW: 52-63 page 204
Thursday 10/30 Obj: To practice adding and subtracting rational numbers. Do Now, Please: Notebook Check on homework from 10/20 through 10/29. CHW Wkbk page 4.4 both sides.
Friday 10/31 Obj: To review, quiz and practice. Do Now, Please: Warmups for quiz on back of a c.s.o.p. Quiz on front. CHW multiples of 4 page 184
Week 1, 2nd Quarter
Monday 10/20 Obj: To review rules of divisibility, to identify prime and composite numbers, and to diagnose readiness for chapter 4. Do Now, Please: Test corrections on test on chapters 1-3. CW: List the numbers 1-50 and list all the factors of each. CHW: Page 184 leftmost column (#1,5,9,13, etc.)
Tuesday 10/21 Obj: To find the greatest common factor of two numbers. Do Now, Please: 1-6 @ top of page 185. CHW #1-38 page 188
Wednesday 10/22 Obj: To write equivalent forms of rational numbers. Do Now, Please: #5 page 190. CHW 1-39 odd page 193
Thursday 10/23 Obj: To compare and order rational numbers. Do Now, Please:#50 page 194. CW page 198 # 1-10 CHW Page 199 # 16-26 & 40-44
Friday 10/24 Obj: To review, quiz and practice. Do Now, Please: Warm Ups for Quiz on back of c.s.o.p. Quiz on front. CHW: # 48-56 page 200
Week 10, 1st Quarter
Monday 10/6 Obj: To graph and describe translations. Do Now, Please 1-6 page 157. CHW 1-22 page 159 on graph paper
Tuesday 10/7 Obj: To graph reflections and identify lines of symmetry. DO Now, Please: Write the word "REFLECTIONS' the way it would look in a mirror. CW: Cut and tape 2 lefts and 2 right sides of your picture from the overhead film copies I give you. We'll share your funny "evil" and "good" twin selves for a good laugh at how we would look if we were exactly symmetrical to ourselves! CHW: 1-41 odd pages 165 - 168.
Wednesday 10/8 Obj: To graph rotations and identify rotational symmetry. Do Now, Please: Notebook Test. CHW page 171 # 1-46.
Thursday 10/9 Obj: To review chapter 3. DO Now, Please: Graph X + Y = 8 and Y = 2/3 X - 1 using any methods you prefer, but be prepared to defend why you chose those methods. CW: Review game of Math football. CHW: 1-25 & 30-32 pages 176 & 177.
Friday 10/10 Obj: To review and test on chapter 3. Do Now, Please: Warmups for test. Test. After test, do reading math sheet 4A & 4B.
Week 9, 1st Quarter
Monday 9/29 Obj: To understand slope. Do Now, Quiz Corrections. CW: Page 131 # 1-22. CHW Wksheet 3-3
Tuesday 9/30 Obj: To review and practice previously learned skills. Do Now, Please: 1-6 top of page 128 CW: Worksheet CHW Worksheet 33 & 34 (front and back of one sheet)
Wednesday 10/1 Obj: To graph using slope/intercept method. Do Now, Please: 1-3 top of page 136. CW: 1-9 & 13-18 page 139 CHW Worksheet 3-4 both sides
Thursday 10/2 Obj; To solve word problems using various methods, including graphing. Do Now, Please: 24 - 26 page 145. CW: Pages 143-145 # 1-15 any 7 by yourself or any 11 with a partner . CHW: Workbook page 3-5
Friday 10/3 Obj: To graph using x and y intercepts. Do Now, Please: Checkpoint Quiz page 141 CHW 1-11 page 148.
Week 8, 1st Quarter
Monday 9/22 Obj: To graph points in the coordinate plane. Do Now, Please: Test corrections CHW:pages 119 # 1-10, 19-25 & 39-49
Tuesday 9/23 Obj: To practice graphing ordered pairs. Do Now, Please: 1-6 top of page 117 CW: Graph Sheets CHW: Graph Sheets
Wednesday 9/24 Obj: To graph equations with 2 variables. Do, Please 106 top of page 122. CW: Page 124 # 1-20. CHW: Wkbk sheet 3-2 both sides.
Thursday 9/25 Obj: To practice graphing equations with 2 variables. Do Now, Please: Notebook Test on homework and classwork. CHW "Curve Swerve" worksheet & perhaps"Luck of the Irish" worksheet.
Friday 9/26 Obj: To review, quiz and practice graphing ordered pairs and equations with 2 variables. Do Now, Please: Warmups on back of a c.s.o.p. Do Quiz on front. After quiz, do Math Literacy Sheet 3C & 3D.
Week 7, 1st Quarter
Monday 9/15 Obj: To solve & graph one step inequalities by adding or subtracting. Do Now, Please: Copy the chart on page 91. CHW: multiples of 4 through 76 pages 93-95
Tuesday 9/16 Obj: To solve and graph one step inequalities by multiplying or dividing. Do Now, Please: Add 100 to your progress report if you plan on bringing it back signed and refigure your mean, median, mode, range and list any outlier(s). CHW multiples of 3-54 pages 99-102. For extra credit, write the following sentence 100 times: " When you multiply or divide each side of an inequality BY a negative number, you must reverse the direction of the inequality sign
Wednesday 9/17 Obj: To solve 2 step inequalities. Do Now, Please: Math Literacy worksheet 2C &2D. CHW Multiples of 3's - 45 pages 104-106.
Thursday 9/18 Obj: To review chapters 1 & 2 for cumulative test to be given tomorrow.Do Now, Please: Make a 6 by 6 grid, fill in at random the answers from the board and let's play review Bingo. 1st one to get 6 in a row, column, or diagonally, wins. CHW pages 108 & 109 odd ( all those answers are in the back of the book.Please check them after you do them and show any work necessary-3 to 5 or more lines on equations and inequalities.
Friday 9/19 Obj: To test on chapters 1 & 2. CHW: After test, do Reading Sheet:Graphic Organizer 3A &3B.
Week 6, 1st Quarter
Monday 9/8 Obj: To practice & review skills previously covered. CW: Page 60 - turn in today CHW: Workbook page 2.1 practice side only - you must have 3 lines each.
Tuesday 9/9 Obj: To solve 2 step equations. Do Now, Please # 1-5 @ top of page 69. CW: multiples of 3-42 pages 70 -72
Wednesday 9/10 Obj: To quiz on solving 1 & 2 step equations and to simplify Algebraic expressions. Do Now, Please: Warmups for quiz on back of a c.s.o.p. Quiz on front CHW even 2-52 pages 76 & 77.
Thursday 9/11 Obj: To do quiz corrections and to solve multistep equations. Do Now, Please: Quiz corrections. CHW Page 81 multiples of 5hrough 25
Friday 9/12 Obj: To write in order to explain in math and to practice solving word problems by using the strategies of drawing diagrams and writing equations and other strategies. Do Now, Please: Notebookk test & 1-3 page 84. CHW Page 86 # 1-14. Make flip books for #13.
Week 5, 1st Quarter
Tuesday 9/2 Obj: To test on chapter one. After test, do Graphic Organizer sheet 2A & Reading Comprehension sheet 2B
Wednesday 9/3 Obj: To do test corrections and solve one step equations with 3 lines. CHW: page 65 1-28 odd
Thursday 9/4 Obj: To practice solving one step equations. CW: Page 65 2-28 even CHW Page65 & 66 # 29-63 all
Friday 9/5 Obj: To Practice adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing negative and positive numbers. CW: Worksheet "Tackle These Problems" and "Feather Brain" CHW "College Knowledge" and "Don't Be Square" worksheets.
Week 4, 1st Quarter 2008/2009
Monday 8/25 Obj: To find mean, median, mode, range and outliers. Do Now, Please: On your "mini" progress report, list your grades in ascending order. Then add another 100 for bringing it back signed and refigure your new mean, median, mode, range, and determine if you have any outliers. CHW Worksheet 1.6 both sides.
Tuesday 8/26 Obj: To review, quiz, and practice. Do Now, Please: Write your name on front of a c.s.o.p. and do warm ups for quiz on back. Do quiz on front. CHW page 36-38 even.
Wednesday 8/27 Obj: To do quiz corrections and use the Order of Operations with exponents and powers. Do Now, Please: Quiz corrections. CW Wkbk page 1l7 CHW: page 42 & 43 # 1-55 odd. ( use graphing calculators in class if time permits)
Thursay 8/28 Obj: To identify and use properties. Do Now, Please: Checkpoint quiz page 43. CW Multiples of 3 through 60 page 49. CHW: Make an :Algebrapoly" game board, set of cards or currency. You must include all the properties and their definitions and examples to earn 100.
Frioday 8/29 Obj: To review chapter one. Do Now, Please: Notebook check on homework. CHW pages 52 & 53. Chapter test next Tuesday.
Week 3, 1st Quarter
Monday 8/18 Obj: To add integers. Do Now, Please: Pretest on computing with integers and copy verse one of "Two At A Time" : Add if signs are both the same. Not the same? Change the game. Subtract and keep the "bigger" sign. Adding really is fine. CW page 25 # 1-14 CHW: Enrichment worksheet 1.1 & 1.2.
Tuesday 8/19 Obj: To subtract integers. Do Now, Please: Copy verse 2 of "Two At A Time" : If it says subtract, don't act like it's a fact to subtract. Change the two middle signs and do the adding lines. CW Workbook page 1.4. CHW pae 25 # 15-36
Wednesday 8/20 Obj: To practice adding and subtracting integers. Do Now, Please # 1-9 page 22. CW Page 26 & 27 all. CHW Guided Problem Solving 1.3 & 1.4.
Thursday 8/21 Obj: To multiply and divide integers. Do Now, Please: Copy verse 3 of "Two At A Time": Multiply and divide as you would, if you could. Signs alike? It comes out plus. Different? A minus! CW Reteaching and Practice sheet 1.5. CHW 1-57 odd page 31
Friday 8/22 Obj: To practice multiplying and dividing integers. Do Now, Please: 1-7 top of page 28. CW page 31 #2-56 even. Do something creative with any of the concepts you think are difficult in lessons 1-5 Don't spend more than 1 hour on this, and try to use recycled materials.
Week 2, 1st Quarter
Monday 8/11 Obj: To write and simplify expressions using the Order of Operations. Do Now, Please: 1-6 top of page 5. CHW: 3's-60 (3,6,9,12,etc.) beginning on page 8.
Tuesday 8/12 Obj: To use a problem solving plan to solve word problems. Do Now, Please; 1-6 page 12. C.HW. Any 10 Page 14 - work in groups.
Wednesday 8/13 Obj: To compare, order, and find absolute value and opposites of integers. Do Now, Please: 1-8 page 16. CHW Multiples of 3-84 page 18.
Thursday 8/14 Obj: To review, practice, and quiz. Do Now, Please: Warm-ups on back of a clean sheet of paper (CSOP), Quiz on front. CHW: Worksheet 1.2 both sides except # 8 it's extra credit.
Friday 8/15 Obj: To go over quiz, do corrections, and practice reading in math and problem solving skills. Do Now, Please: Quiz corrections and Notebook check CHW: Math & Literacy Worksheet 1A &1B (graphic organizer for chapter 1)& Guided Problem Solving 1-1 & 1-2
Week 1, 1st Quarter
Thursday 8/7 & Friday 8/8 Obj: To get acquainted, go over rules and procedures, and practice working together in groups. CHW: 2 worksheets and 1st and 2nd Period's students are to write one paragraph each, 4th & 6th period's students are to each write essays on their favorite 3 numbers. Only one can be a one digit number. If the numbers are private, like Social Security, telephone, or I.D. numbers, they just need to list X's to represent those.Due Tuesday of next week.