Southwest
In class we did the investigation from section 3.2. We wrote recursive equations out for the movement of vehicles. Tomorrow we’ll finish the investigation which will include graphing the data that they are getting tonight.
Homework: finish investigation worksheet from page 166
Lake Harriet:
We took the CALT test (day 2) today. Exciting!
Homework: none
Archive for September, 2008
30 Sep
Day 21 – 11 Days Until MEA Break!
29 Sep
Day 20 – 12 Days Until MEA Break!
Southwest
We did the investigation on page 159 as a group, and I talked a bit about the difference between recursive and explicit equations. I gave the students examples (and non-examples) of linear relationships as well.
Homework: 1 – 4, 6
Lake Harriet
The students needed to take the CALT test so we had no class. We might have [...]
26 Sep
Day 19 – 13 Days Until MEA Break!
Southwest
We quickly went over the worksheet from the previous day and then we took the chapter 2 exam.
Chapter 2 Exam class averages:
Period 1: 80%
Period 2: 73%
Period 4: 75%
Period 5: 70%
Homework: none
Lake Harriet
We worked on two scatterplots in class. I mostly concentrated on the vocabulary for the section.
Homework: 2, 4, 9 (most finished during the class [...]
25 Sep
Day 18 – 14 Days Until MEA Break!
Southwest
We reviewed for tomorrow’s test on chapter 2.
Homework: Review worksheet
Lake Harriet
We went over yesterday’s review sheet and took a quiz on sections 1.1 to 1.4.
Homework: none
24 Sep
Day 17 – 15 Days Until MEA Break!
Southwest
We went over last night’s homework and then took the quiz on section 2.8.
Homework: none
Lake Harriet
We’ve done five types of graphs and today we’re doing a worksheet to review them. Tomorrow there will be a quiz on the types of graphs.
Homework: 1.4 – Review Worksheet
23 Sep
Day 16 – 16 Days Until MEA Break!
Southwest
We went over last night’s homework in detail and then were given review for tomorrow’s quiz.
Homework: 2.8 Practice Worksheet (Order of Operations and “Undoing Equations” Tables)
Lake Harriet
Today we worked on stem-and-leaf plots and did a review of the other graphs that we’ve been working on (dot plots, bar graphs, boxplots, and histograms). We’ll have a quiz [...]
22 Sep
Day 15 – 17 Days Until MEA Break!
Southwest
We worked on the worksheet below for class notes…this is the beginning of solving equations.
Section 2.8 Notes
Homework: 1, 7, 11
Lake Harriet
We continued working on data displays. So far we’ve done dot plots, bar graphs, and box plots. Today we do histograms, which look like box plots but are used for different types of data.
Homework: Section [...]
19 Sep
Day 14 – 18 Days Until MEA Break!
Southwest
We began class by going over homework and taking the first memorization test using our Math Facts of the Day which we start with each day. Then we just began section 2.8 with one problem that we did together. We’ll finish the lesson 2.8 on Monday.
Homework: none
Lake Harriet
We worked on box plots which requires them to [...]
18 Sep
Day 13 – 19 Days Until MEA Break!
Southwest
We went over (again!) the order of operations and began to learn how to express operations algebraically using number puzzles.
Homework: 2.7 #4, 6, 7
Lake Harriet
We reviewed the first two sections of the chapter and then worked on box plots which requires them to find quartiles of data.
Homework: Section 1.3 #1, 3, 4, 5
Due to a [...]
17 Sep
Day 12 – 20 Days Until MEA Break!
Southwest
We went over the previous day’s worksheet, and then I gave them five of the same problems for a homework check. Then they worked on their homework:
Homework: 2.4 # 4,5
Lake Harriet
We went over the three measures of centers (mean, median, and mode). They should be able to find them using a list of numbers or from [...]
