Thursday January 12, 2017

Algebra I: Today in math students began class with a Do Now and a set of warm up problems.  Next, students reviewed the concepts of working with exponents.  Students were then introduced to working with nth roots.  After some teacher led instruction and several examples, students were assigned some homework from the textbook, page 303-304 # 1, 8-12, 14-34 evens, 35, 40, to be due Friday in class.

Assignments:   Students were assigned homework from the textbook, page 303-304 # 1, 8-12, 14-34 evens, 35, 40, to be due Friday in class.

7th Grade Math: Today in math students began class with their flashmaster activities. Students then jumped back into chapter 5 and finding ratios, rates and unit rates.  Students were given the first 25 minutes of class time to begin working on the section 5.1 Practice A worksheet, before students were introduced to proportions.  Students defined what a proportion was and then worked through a couple of examples of determining whether or not to ratios were proportional.  

Assignments:  Review Homework #30 is due on Friday in class.  The section 5.1 Practice A worksheet is due Friday in class.

Science:  Today in science, students began class with the Do Now.  Next, students reviewed the parts of compound microscopes, before all students participated in a matching activity designed to help students learn the functions of the parts of compound microscopes.  

Assignments: Students should be completing the matching activity this evening if they did not finish in the class time provided.