Tuesday April 1, 2014

7th Grade Math: Today in math students began class with the Problem of the Day. Next, students jumped ahead into chapter 10 for an introduction to geometry.  Today students were introduced to solving problems involving triangles.  Students learned about the different ways of classifying triangles, either by their angle measures or by their side lengths, as well as how to find a missing angle measure.  After some teacher led instruction and a few example problems, students were assigned some problems from the text book, page 513 #1-13, to be due Thursday in class. 

Students will not have math on Wednesday of this week as 8th graders will be taking the Science SBA.   

Assignments:  Study Island Review Homework #20 is due by the end of the day on Friday. Problems from the text, p. 513 #1-13 are due Thursday.    

8th Grade Math: Today in math students began class with their flashmasters.  Next, students jumped back into chapter 4 section two.  Students learned how to factor monomials as well as how to find the GCF of two or more monomials.  After some teacher led instruction and several example problems, students were assigned the 4.2 worksheet (odds only) as homework to be due Thursday in class.

Students will not have math on Wednesday of this week as 8th graders will be taking the Science SBA. 

Assignments:  Review homework #14 will be due on Friday in class. The section 4.2 worksheet (odds only) will be due Thursday in class.               

Science: Today in science students began class with the Do Now.  Next, students got back into their roller coaster groups, and continued building the basic structure of the roller coaster. This included attaching the columns, diagonals and beams to their roller coasters. 

8th graders will be taking the Science SBA on Wednesday morning of this week.   

Assignments:  None.