Southwest
We went over the final exam in class, then had our final Math Fact of the Day quiz for the quarter.
Quarter 1 is now over.
Homework: none
Lake Harriet
No class – school dance
Archive for October, 2008
31 Oct
Day 41 – 17 Days Until Thanksgiving Break!
30 Oct
Day 40 – 18 Days Until Thanksgiving Break!
Southwest
Quarter 1 Final Exam
Homework: study for the Math Fact of the Day Quiz (#3)
Lake Harriet
Yesterday we finished with section 2.7 which was beginning how to read and write algebraic expressions. Today we’ll turn them into algebraic equations and we’ll learn how to solve them using “undo” tables. The section does a nice job of detailing [...]
29 Oct
Day 39 – 19 Days Until Thanksgiving Break!
Southwest
The students will have a quarter final exam tomorrow. It is a cumulative exam (covering chapters 2, 3, and section 4.1) There is a list of what the students need to know below.
Quarter 1 Final Exam – What did we learn so far?
During class, we had to continue going over slope. Students are still struggling [...]
28 Oct
Day 38 – 20 Days Until Thanksgiving Break!
Southwest
We continued going over the slope formula. I gave another homework check today to see how they are progressing. We went over the homework from yesterday, then I gave them review for tonights homework.
Homework: 4.1 Homework Day 2
Lake Harriet
I went over last night’s homework on inverse variation and then taught my lesson on Evaluating Expressions [...]
27 Oct
Day 37 – 21 Days Until Thanksgiving Break!
Southwest
We spent a long time going over the homework from Thursday once again – finding and using the slope of a line. Then I showed the students how to graph a line if they are given the equation of the line.
Homework: 4.1 Homework Worksheet
Lake Harriet
I briefly went over the most common errors on Friday’s classwork [...]
24 Oct
Day 36 – 22 Days Until Thanksgiving Break!
Southwest
Today we spent a lot of time going over last night’s homework on slope. For homework, they are going to do more of the same.
Homework: worksheet
Lake Harriet
We’re still working with direct variation. The students did lots of work in class and then I gave them the night off from homework. I’m too nice.
Homework: none
23 Oct
Day 35 – 23 Days Until Thanksgiving Break!
Southwest
We spent the entire day going over the definition of slope and how it related to what we did last year. Specifically, we learned how to find the slope of a line by looking at a table, by looking at a graph, and by using two points written as ordered pairs.
Homework: 4.1 #1-3
Lake Harriet
We finished [...]
22 Oct
Day 34 – 24 Days Until Thanksgiving Break!
Southwest
Exam day for chapter 3. Would you like to see the test in advance? Here it is…..
Lake Harriet
We took a quiz on sections 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 today and then we went into section 2.4 which is on direct variation. In this section we encounter simple linear equations and begin to develop a clearer understanding [...]
21 Oct
Day 33 – 25 Days Until Thanksgiving Break!
Southwest
We reviewed for the exam by going over yesterday’s work. I put their work underneath the camera for everyone to see and we found their errors.
Homework: worksheet (to study for the exam tomorrow)
Chapter 3 Review (Part C)
Lake Harriet
We’ve done the first three sections on proportions. We’ll have a quiz tomorrow, so today we’ll review with [...]
20 Oct
Day 32 – 26 Days Until Thanksgiving Break!
Southwest
We are done with the chapter, so we did some review. They did the review worksheet “A” in class and have to do “B” for homework.
Chapter 3 Review (parts A and B)
Lake Harriet
We worked on using proportions to change units – say from centimeters to inches. We also discussed dimensional analysis which is a quick [...]
