Monday January 30, 2017

Algebra I: Today in math students began class with a Do Now and a set of warm up problems.  Next, students reviewed the idea of exponential functions, before we continued talking about exponential growth and decay functions.  Today students were introduced to compound interest.  After some teacher led instruction and several example problems on compound interest, students were assigned some homework problems from the textbook, page 320-321 # 44, 54, 57-62, 64, to be due on Tuesday in class.

Assignments:  Students were assigned some homework problems from the textbook, page 320-321 # 44, 54, 57-62, 64, to be due on Tuesday in class.

7th Grade Math: Today in math students began class with their flashmaster activities. Students then jumped back into groups from last week and we played the Criss-Cross proportion game. 

Assignments:  Review Homework #33 is due Wednesday in class.

Science:  Today in science, students began class with the Do Now.  Students were then helped through an activity where we compared a cell to a factory.  We talked about the roles each organelle plays within a cell and how that compared to the parts of a factory.  

Assignments: Students should be completing a cell coloring packet, that will be due on Wednesday in class.