Week of October 31

This week we will continue working on solving and writing inequalities. Classes will be shortened on Tuesday and Wednesday to accomodate the ITBS.

Week of October 24

This week we will be finishing Chapter 2. The class will review Chapter 2 on Tuesday. Students will have practice problems for homework Tuesday night. Test will be on Wednesday!

Chapter 3 begins Thursday - Writing and Solving Inequalities.

Week of October 17

Remember that there will be NO SCHOOL on October 20 and 21.

This week we will be solving percent problems and looking at ways in which percents are used in finance. The last quiz of the quarter will be on Tuesday covering last week's applications of proportions.

http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/vol4/challenge_vol4.html

http://mathplayground.com/percent_shopping.html

Week of October 10

This week students will discover how proportional reasoning can be used in different careers. We will use goldfish (the food) in class on Wednesday to demonstrate how biologists tag fish to study populations. Later in the week we will measure trees' shadows to help determine the height of the tree. It's a good week to be a scientist in math class!

Week of October 3

This week we will continue working on solving multi-step equations. The class will be solving problems that have variables on both sides of the equations. A small quiz will be given on Wednesday covering Section 2-3.