Wednesday December 11, 2013

7th Grade Math: Today in math students began class with the Problem of the Day.  Next, students reviewed the rules associated with multiplying and dividing powers.  Students then completed the the lesson on negative and zero exponents.  We reviewed the rules that say that any nonzero number raised to a zero exponent is always equal to 1.  We also reviewed how to remove negative exponents by placing them into the denominator of a fraction.  After some teacher led instruction and several examples, students were assigned the 4.6 worksheet as homework, to be due Thursday in class.   

Assignments:  Students were assigned the section 4.6 worksheet as homework to be due Thursday in class.  Review Homework #25 is due Friday in class.    

8th Grade Math: Today in math students began class with their flashmasters.  Today students reviewed the process of identifying the terms, like terms, coefficients and constants of an expression.  Next, students were introduced to writing out an expression from a given word sentence.  We practiced several examples together as a class before we ran out of class time.   

Assignments:  Review homework #26 is due Friday in class.    

Science: Today in science students began class with the Do Now.  Next, students continued working with and learning about the periodic table.  Today students were learning about the organization of the table and how elements came to be in the position they are in on the table.  We finished reading chapter 3 section 1 as a class, and students were responsible for answering some guiding questions as we read, as well as defining some key vocabulary words as we read.     

Assignments:  Students were assigned the section 3.1 worksheet on Organizing the Elements, to be due on Thursday in class.