Into combining like terms

Today we checked homework and talked about combining like terms. Homework is #s 25-59 odd.

Onto translating

After checking our homework on plug-it-in from last night, we took some break notes on translating expressions, and then the kids started to work on their homework, getting to #40 on the sheets (labeled #12 in their notebooks) they got in class.

Plug it in, plug it in

We checked the rational number work from yesterday, took notes on plugging it in (expressions and variables), and the kids do have homework -- a sheet that they should do #s 12-36, multiples of 3.

Rational number work continues

We checked the homework from the weekend and then had ourselves a workday. See below for the problems that the kids worked on during class and that they will need to have completed for class tomorrow. (all these problems are from the rational numbers packet they've already got)

HW for tonight

Rational Numbers and Operations

Today was an intense day. We plowed through all four operations with fractions and with decimals, and the kids will need to complete 10 problems for homework -- see below for the specific problems.

Decimals notes

HW

Beginning Rational Numbers

Today we finished the NUMB3RS episode we were watching yesterday, checked our homework from yesterday on integers and took notes on rational numbers. Specifically, today we talked about conversion between fractions, decimals, and percents. Their homework tonight is #s 3, 6, 9, 12, 15 and #s 125-153 ODD in the rational numbers packet they got today.

Rational numbers

Fraction to decimal and back again

Percent To decimal and back again

HW

The Pre-Al Review Unit

We have shifted our focus away from the Jacobs text for a while into our Pre-Algebra review unit. We'll be in this unit for about a month. Basically, I cram all of Pre-Algebra into about 20 days. It's intense, there are a lot of notes, and a lot of homework. They had an old Pre-Al test for homework Monday night that was due today (no class yesterday because of block) and today we worked on Integers (and they have a number of problems for homework, posted below) while we watched a NUMB3RS episode. These problems are due tomorrow! Stay tuned! Tomorrow is rational numbers...

Homework

Ex 1, 2, 4, 5

Ex 3

Chapter 9 Test

We took our Chapter 9 test today! I'll be taking these home with me and checking them over the weekend. The kids will get them back on Monday when we start our next unit: A Review of Pre-Algebra... Whoohoo!

Test Tomorrow!

Chapter 9 test is tomorrow and we used our time together today to review for that test. On a larger scale, this test is not as much of a bear as Chapters 7 & 8. They're going to be fine.

The next unit we will start is the Pre-Algebra unit... next Monday!

Using Excel to do the work for us

We used the computers primarily today to talk about mean, median, mode, range, and standard deviation. We talked about using Excel to do most of the math for us! That then begged the question, if computers can do this work... then shouldn't we be doing other stuff? I'll post the one of the excel docs on the class docs so you can see what we did!

A Trillion?

Collecting data and what to do?

Today we talked about and collected data from ourselves... that we'll use tomorrow with the computers. I want to show the kids how to use the computers to do some of the statistics work we've been doing for the past few weeks.

Tomorrow we'll plug all the data in the computer, Wednesday will be review and THURSDAY will be the test!

Collecting data

The Census

Since I was absent yesterday for fourth period (had to leave early with a debilitating headache), the kids ended up working on a lesson that I hadn't planned we would study on Sampling.

They worked on that and finished the first set for homework last night. Today we checked that homework, and then watched part of an episode from The West Wing, a political tv drama. The episode was about sampling with regards to the census, quite an appropriate topic considering next year we're up for a census... and we're studying data collection in Jacobs. :)

No homework, but there will be a test next week on Chapter 9.

Lesson 5

Today we quickly checked Lesson 5 Set I, and then moved into Set II. The kids will need to finish up Set II for homework.

And as Madeline found out yesterday, no worries if you forget your book! I scanned in the sheets from the book and emailed them to her. No more excuses for not having homework done because the book wasn't there! :)