Homework and Announcements
1/28/2020
Happy Tuesday! I hope you all enjoyed another long weekend. This week will be business as usual as 6th grade nears the end of their unit and 7th grade continues through the first section of their unit. Please read below for details.
Math 6 This week, the sixth graders will be finishing up their unit on fraction operations with a few lessons on word problems. For the last few weeks, we've been reviewing and learning all of the operations on fractions. Now, we will be applying these skills to solve word problems. All sixth grade classes will end the week with a partner quiz for practice. Next week, we will be ready to take the unit test on fraction operations and this will likely fall on Tuesday or Wednesday (February 4 or 5). Your only math homework is MathXL. Math 6 Topics Covered This weeks lessons are being pulled from the Let's Be Rational book in your home textbook. If you would like to review them, read through pages 68 - 72. These are the lessons we are covering in class. Math 7 This week, the seventh graders will continue working through the first section of their percentages unit and we will end the week with a quiz on Friday. Your only math homework is MathXL. Math 7 Topics Covered This week your student is learning about proportional relationships that involve fractions and decimals. For example, a baker decides to start using 1/6 less than the amount of sugar called for in each recipe. If the recipe calls for 2 cups of sugar, the baker will leave out 1/6 x 2, or 1/3 cup of sugar. That means the baker will only use 2 - 1/3, or 1 2/3 cups of sugar. The amount of sugar the baker actually uses is proportional to the amount of sugar called for in the recipe. The constant of proportionality is 5/6. Here is a task to try with your student: The baker also decides to start using 1/6 more than the amount of liquid called for in each recipe.
Homework and Announcements
1/21/2020
I hope you all enjoyed the long weekend! This week, each class will be moving onward in their units. Please read below:
Math 6 We are continuing our unit on fraction operations and wrapping up the final operation: division. Everything in this unit can be found in your textbook at home, and this week will come out of investigation 3 of the Let's Be Rational text. Students will still be receiving the daily lessons for their math folders simply because I love how efficient and productive we are with this system. Remember that at the end of each lesson, I have detailed where to find the lesson overview and extra practice problems in the textbook. Your only homework this week is MathXL. We might take a partner quiz on Friday. This is a BIG "maybe" as I do not want to over-test, but I also feel it would be beneficial to wrap up all of the operations with a nice little assessment. If we take a quiz, it will be a partner quiz to alleviate some of the stress. Topics Covered this Week At this point, we have covered addition, subtraction, and multiplication of fractions. This week, we will be diving in division. This is the first operation that you most likely did not see in elementary school (although I know of a few fifth grade teachers who cover it). Throughout the week, continue to analyze what division means: splitting or grouping. If you would like additional review or practice. I recommend reviewing pages 47 - 54 of Let's Be Rational (these are the lessons we will complete in class). You can also work through some of the practice problems as outlined on each lesson I assign. Math 7 Last week, we completed the Circles unit and took a unit test. Please check your score online and plan for a retake if you earned a D or an F. We are going to begin a new unit title Proportional Relationships and Percentages. This unit does not match anything in your textbook at home. We are adding this extra unit in simply because the CMP3 text doesn't dive into percentages as much as we need to. That said, your daily lessons will be your best resource for notes, new vocabulary and practice problems. Your homework this week is MathXL. Topics Covered this Week Homework and Announcements
1/13/2020
Happy Monday everyone! We are looking at another full week this week. All classes will have a quiz or test of some sort this week. Please read below for more details.
Math 6 We are continuing our unit on fraction operations: Let's Be Rational. Everything in this unit can be found in your textbook at home. Students will still be receiving the daily lessons for their math folders simply because I love how efficient and productive we are with this system. However, at the end of each lesson I will detail where to find the lesson overview and extra practice problems in their textbook. Your only homework this week is MathXL. We will be taking a quiz on Tuesday (tomorrow) on fraction addition and subtraction. After that, we will be diving into multiplication. Topics Covered this Week We will be wrapping up fraction addition and subtraction on Tuesday, and then we will begin fraction multiplication on Wednesday. As part of this new topic, we will be discussing the connection between "of" statements and multiplication situations. For instance, 2 groups of 12 is 2x12. How would this look if it were 2 1/2 groups of 12? If you would like additional review or practice. I recommend reviewing pages 30-36 of Let's Be Rational (these are the lessons we will complete in class). You can also work through some of the practice problems as outlined on each lesson I assign. Math 7 We will be ending our circles unit this week. This is a short unit and the test that we are taking on Wednesday will be short also. Please be prepared with your circumference and area formulas memorized. Your homework this week is MathXL and the review sheet. Homework and Announcements
1/6/2020
Welcome back! I hope everyone enjoyed the Winter break! Here is everything that is going on this week:
Math 6 We are starting a new unit this week on fraction operations: Let's Be Rational. Everything in this unit can be found in your textbook at home. Students will still be receiving the daily lessons for their math folders simply because I love how efficient and productive we are with this system. However, at the end of each lesson I will detail where to find the lesson overview and extra practice problems in their textbook. Your only homework this week is MathXL and we will be ending the week with a quiz on Friday. Topics Covered this Week We will be learning how to add and subtract fractions. This is a topic that is often covered in fifth grade, but we review it thoroughly again in sixth grade. We will also be expanding to include mixed numbers this year. If you would like additional review or practice. I recommend reviewing pages 8 - 17 of Let's Be Rational (these are the lessons we will complete in class). You can also work through some of the practice problems as outlined on each lesson I assign. Math 7 We will be continuing our circles unit this week. Before break, we learned about circumference and now we will be moving on to area. This is a short unit and we should be wrapping it up with a test next week. Your only homework this week is MathXL. Topics Covered this Week Prior to the break, we learned about Pi (3.14) and how this important number is the ratio of circumference to diameter. More specifically, to find the circumference, you multiply the diameter by Pi. This week, we will be expanding on this knowledge to develop an understanding of how to find the area of a circle. |