Thursday February 19, 2015

8th Grade Math: Today in math students began class with the Problem of the Day.  Next, students continued learning about factors and multiples.  Students reviewed how to factor or simplify monomial fractions into simplest form.  We then began talking about LCMs and students were learned one method of finding an LCM by listing multiples of the number in question and circling the least common multiple.  After some teacher led instruction, and several examples, students were assigned some book work, page 190 #16-26 evens as homework, to be due Friday in class.  

Assignments:  Students were assigned some book work, page 190 #16-26 evens as homework, to be due Friday in class.

7th Grade Math: Today in math students began class with their flashmasters.  Next, students continued the conversation on factors and multiples.  Today students were learning about the differences between factors and multiples.  Students were introduced to two methods of finding the LCM, listing multiples, and using the prime factorization of the numbers in question in order to calculate the LCM.  After some teacher led instruction, and several examples, students were assigned the section 4.4 WS as homework, to be due Friday in class.  

Assignments:   Students were assigned the section 4.4 WS as homework, to be due Friday in class.   

Science: Students began class with the Do Now.  Next, students jumped right back into their genetics project they were introduced to yesterday.  Today, students used the information they developed yesterday in class about the genotype and phenotypes of their mother and father characters to develop Punnett Squares for each of the six individual traits.  

Assignments:  None.