Monday February 9, 2015

8th Grade Math: Today in math students began class with the Problem of the Day.  Next, students continued learning more about prime and composite numbers.  Students today were learning about how to find the GCF (greatest common factor) of two or more numbers using the method of listing out the factors of each number in question and circling the greatest common factor in each list.  After some teacher led instruction and a few example problems, students were assigned some book work, page 179 # 12-18, to be due Tuesday in class.

Assignments:  Review Homework #33 is due Wednesday in class.  The book work, page 179 #12-18 is due Tuesday in class.

7th Grade Math: Today in math students began class with their flashmasters.  Next, students continued the conversation on prime and composite numbers.  Today student were learning how to find the GCF (greatest common factor) of two or more numbers by listing out the factors of each number in question and circling the greatest number in common in each list.  After some teacher led instruction and a few example problems, students were then assigned some book work, page 172 # 3-14 odds, to be due Tuesday in class.

Assignments:   Review Homework #33 is due Wednesday in class.  The book work from page 172 (#3-14 odds) is due Tuesday in class. 

Science: Students began class with the Do Now.  Next, students jumped back into our activity from Friday's class where we were interpreting data to determine dominant and recessive traits of the students in our class.  Today students determined their own unique trait identification number from a circle of traits.  

Assignments:  None.