Monday December 2, 2013

7th Grade Math: Today in math students began class with the Problem of the Day.  Next, students reviewed the methods of finding the GCF of two or more numbers or monomials.  Many students struggled with finding the GCF of monomials, so we took some time reviewing the process of factoring each monomial within a fraction in order to put into simplest form.     

Assignments:  Review Homework #23 is due Wednesday in class.    

8th Grade Math: Today in math students began class with their flashmasters.  Next, students continued working with properties of addition and multiplication. Today students continued working with the distributive property.   After some teacher led instruction, students attempted several examples together in class, before students were assigned problems from the extra practice section on their at home text book, page 804 #1-19 to be due Tuesday in class.    

Assignments:  The problems from the at home text book, page 804 #1-19 are due Tuesday in class.  Review homework #23 is due Wednesday in class.   

Science: Today in science students began class with the Do Now.  Next, students began learning the basics of atoms.  We read the section entitled "Particles of Matter" together as a group and students answered several questions throughout the reading, before we ended class with a discussion about the breakdown of the subatomic particles within an atom, the proton, neutron, and the electron.       

Assignments:  None.