Monday October 29, 2012

7th Grade Math:  Today in math students began class with the problem of the day, before jumping into chapter 3.  Today students continued to work with equations involving multiple steps, like terms and parentheses.  Students seem to be struggling with solving equations involving the distributive property, so we spent some class time today reviewing solving equations with the distributive property.  Students were assigned the 3.2 worksheet for homework.    

Assignments:   Review Homework #14 is due Wednesday.   The section 3.2 worksheet is due Tuesday in class.   Students can also be making corrections to their chapter 2 tests, and they are due in class on Tuesday.  

8th Grade Math:  Today in math students began class with their flashmasters.  Next, students reviewed the properties of addition and multiplication, before moving into problems involving the distributive property.  We defined the property in class, and practiced several examples before time ran out in class.   

Assignments:   Review Homework #15 is due Wednesday.  Students can complete quiz corrections by Tuesday if they would like to improve their quiz grades.  

Science:  Today in science, students worked with their partner for the Bubble Gum Challenge activity.  Students spent time in class completing their gum experiments, graphing their results, and beginning to write out their lab write-ups, which will need to be typed up by the end of class on Wednesday.   

Assignments:  Students can and should be analyzing their data from their bubble gum experiments.  Students should have their graphs of their results done by class on Tuesday.