Homework and Announcements
2/18/2020
Happy Tuesday! I hope you enjoyed your long weekend. We are coming up on the end of the trimester, so please take the time to check your grades. The last day for retakes and late work in my class will be Thursday, February 27. Math 6 This week, we are continuing our mini Geometry unit. We spent the majority of last week working on a Geometry project - designing a candy carton - and now we will be wrapping up that project by putting some formality to the ideas we explored. The major concepts in the candy carton project were surface area and volume. Your only homework this week will be MathXL. Math Topics Covered Imagine painting all of the sides of a box. The amount of surface to be covered with paint is the surface area of the box. Your student will focus on finding the surface areas of different three-dimensional objects such as the prisms and pyramids. One way to find the surface area of a three-dimensional object is to draw its net, which shows all the faces of the object as a two-dimensional drawing. A net can be cut out and folded to make the object. To find the surface area of the object, we can find the area of each face (as shown on the net) and add them. The areas of the six rectangular faces shown add up to 76 square units because , so the surface area of this box is 76 square units. Math 7 This week, we are officially wrapping up our percentages unit. I scheduled two review days - Tuesday and Wednesday - with the test scheduled for Thursday. You do not have MathXL this week. Instead, you will be expected to work on the review pages at home if they are not completed in class. Comments are closed.
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