Class Notes 5/30

Today in class we discussed the math final. We then spent the class preparing ourselves for the final that will be on Monday June 5th, in class.

We will spend the class on Thursday preparing as well.

Below you will find a check list to help you study for the final.

Final Review Check List

Class Notes 5/17

Today in class we worked on our review packets to help get us ready for our chapter 11 test that will take place on Friday.

Homework due Friday 5/19: Study for your Chapter 11 test.

Class Notes 5/15

Today in class we went over integer multiplication and integer division. We learned in this lesson that we multiply and divide just like we would with whole numbers however the amount of negative numbers in each problem will dictate if the answer is positive or negative.

• If the signs are the same (+,+) or (-,-) then the answer is positive.

• If the signs are different (+,-) or (-,+) than the answer will be negative.

We also learned the tic-tac-toe board to help us remember the rules for multiplying and dividing integers.

Homework due Wednesday 5/17: Section 11-8 #43-47
                                                       Chapter 11 Test Friday 5/19

Section 11-7 Class Notes

Section 11-8 Class Notes

Class Notes 5/11

Today in class the students worked on adding and subtracting integers. In these lessons the students learned how addition and subtraction work when involving negative integers.

Homework due Monday 5/15: Section 11-5 #19-22, 25, 26, 33, 60, 61
                                                 Section 11-6 #27-32, 38, 40-42


Section 11-5 Class Notes

Section 11-6 Class Notes

Class Notes 5/9

Today in class we covered two sections. The first section we focused on comparing and ordering integers. While the second section introduced us to the Coordinate Plane. The students started to learn the basics of the coordinate plane, including quadrants how to locate a point and how to graph points.

Homework due Thursday 5/11: Section 11-3 #18, 21, 24, 27, 28, 32, 36, 40, 49-54

Class Notes Section 11-2

Class Notes Section 11-3

Class Notes 5/3

Today in class we worked on the last section of Chapter 10. This section dealt with surface area. The class learned how to find the surface area of different types of three dimensional objects including prisms, pyramids, and cylinders.

No Homework due for Friday, but you should study for your quiz on Friday.
The quiz will cover Perimeter, Area, Volume and Surface Area. Make sure to know your equations.

Class Notes Section 10-9

Class Notes 5/1

Today in class we worked on finding the volume of different three dimensional objects. We focused our attention on finding the volume of prisms (rectangular and triangular) and cylinders (circular base).

Homework due Wednesday 5/3: 10-7 #15-18, 22, 23
                                                     10-8 #11-13, 21, 22, 24
                                                    Chapter 10 quiz Friday May 5th.



Class Notes Section 10-7

Class Notes Section 10-8

Class Notes 4/25

Today in class we started our coverage on area of objects. We briefly reviewed the formula for area of a rectangle and move into the area of a parallelogram, a triangle and a trapezoid. We worked in our groups on a problem set involving all these problems.

Homework due Thursday 4/27: 10-1 #14-20
                                                    10-2 # 8-12, 22, 23

Class Notes Section 10-1

Class Notes Section 10-2

Class Notes 4/4

Today in class we covered two more sections of chapter 8. The first section taught us about congruent polygons, while the second section taught us about transformations of objects.

Homework due Thursday 4/6: Finish handout for 8-10 (up to problem 20)
                                                 Read Section 8-11
                                                 Chapter 8 Test Monday 3/10

Class Notes Section 8-9
Class Notes Section 8-10

Class Notes 3/31

Today in class we covered two sections. Our first section focused on quadrilaterals and all the special types of quadrilaterals. We then shifted our focus onto polygons which are closed plane shapes that are made up of at least 3 line segments.

Homework due Tuesday 4/4: 8-6 #28-33 All
                                                8-7 # 15-18, 20-22

Class Notes Section 8-6

Class Notes Section 8-7

Class Notes 3/29

Today in class we went over our chapter 8 quiz, then we did some activities involving triangles and went over the class notes for that section.

Homework due Friday 3/31: Section 8.5 # 11, 14, 17, 18, 25-28

Class Notes Section 8-5

Class Notes 3/27

Today in class the students took there Chapter 8 quizzes.

No Homework due Wednesday.

Class Notes 2/23

Today in class we covered section 8-4 which covered identifying types of lines. We again had more vocabulary. We learned about intersecting line, parallel lines, perpendicular lines and finally skew lines.

Homework Due Monday 3/27: Study for your chapter 8 quiz. This quiz will cover 8-1 up through 8-4.

Class Notes Section 8-4

Class Notes 3/21

Today in class we covered section 8.3 of the text book (Angle Relationships). This section covered the different ways angles interact. We learned vocabulary such as congruent angles, vertical, adjacent as well as complementary and supplementary.

We then worked with our partners on some exercises on this topic.

Homework Due Thursday 3/23: Handout #13-28

There will be a quiz next Monday (3/27) covering what we have learned up to in Chapter 8.

Section 8.3 Class Notes

Class Notes 3/17

Today in class we worked on classifying and measuring angles. We also learned how to use a protractor. After a brief lesson, the students worked in their groups on in class activity. At their stations on the white board they students were to identify 20 different angles that had been made my tape. From there they then tried to classify each of the 20 angles (acute, right, obtuse, or straight). After they had finished classifying each angles they then practiced measuring each angle with a protractor.

Homework due Tuesday 3/21: Finish handout on measuring and classifying angles.

Class Notes Section 8-2

Class Notes 3/13

Today in class we went over our chapter 7 tests and then moved onto the next chapter of the book.
We started our coverage of Chapter 8 (Geometric Relationships). We covered section 8-1, Building Blocks of Geometry and then worked with our partners on some examples.

Homework due 3/15: Finish handout.


Class Notes Section 8-1

Class Notes 3/8

Today in class the students took their chapter 7 tests.

For homework due Monday 3/13: Are you ready Chapter 8 Handout.

Class Notes 3/2

Today in class we worked on sections 7-9 and 7-10. Both sections covered percent problems. Today the students learned how to find percents, what percent a certain number is of a whole, and if a part of a whole is some percent of the whole what is the whole number.

We also looked at problems in order to find sales tax, discounts and tips.

Homework Monday 3/6: The percent calculation handout.

Class Notes Section 7-9

Class Notes Section 7-10

Class Notes 2/28

Today in class we covered sections 7-7 and 7-8 in class which covered percents, decimals and fractions and how we can go one from representation of a number to another.

Homework Due Thursday 3/2: 7-7 #40, 41, 50, 51, 55-57
                                                  7-8 #44, 46, 55, 56, 57, 63, 65
                                                  Chapter 7 Test will be next Wednesday March 8.

Section 7-7 and 7-8 Class Notes

Class Notes 2/16

Today in class we worked more with proportions and similar figures and worked on indirect measurement. This is a method that we can use to help us find the measurement of an object that we can't actually measure. We then worked with our partners and tried to some problems together up at the board.

Homework Due Friday: Handout on Indirect Measurement.

Section 7-5 Class Notes

Class Notes 2/9

Today in class we worked more on proportions and similar figures. After our warmup the students worked with their partners finding proportions of numerous different similar objects from around the classroom.

Homework due 2/13: Finish your similar figure handouts (#14-24).

Class Notes 2/7

Today in class we continued our coverage of ratios and equivalent fractions and moved into proportions and similar figures.

Homework due 2/9: #1-8 from handout.

Class Notes Section 7-3

Class Notes Section 7-4

Class Notes 2/2

Today in class we started our coverage of Chapter 7 (Proportional Relationships). We worked on making equivalent ratios and then using tables to also help us make ratios.

Homework Due Tuesday 2/7: Fraction Test Corrections.


Section 7-1 Class Notes

Section 7-2 Class Notes

Class Notes 1/31

Today in class we took our fraction operation test.


Homework due Thursday 2/2: Are you ready? Chapter 7 - Handout

Class Notes 1/27

Today in class we worked on solving fraction equations by multiplying or dividing in order to get the variable alone.
We also spent time working on our fraction review packet, helping us get ready for the Chapter 5 test next Tuesday.

Homework Due Tuesday 1/31: Study for your chapter 5 (Fraction Operation) test.

Class Notes Section 5-10

Class Notes 1/25

Today in class we finished our coverage of fraction multiplication and fraction division.
We worked in small groups on both sections we covered and got some practice in on solving both types of problems.

Reminder: Chapter 5 Test next Tuesday 1/31

Homework due Friday 1/27: 5-8 #14, 18, 26, 38, 43, 53, 54
                                               5-9 # 16, 25, 34, 43, 53, 64



Class Notes Section 5-8
Class Notes Section 5-9

Class Notes 1/23

Today in class we covered section 5-6 and 5-7. Both sections covered multiplying of fractions. Section 5-6 starts us off with multiplying one fraction by a whole number. Section 5-7 moves on and shows us how to multiply one fraction with another. We worked with our new partners on both units in class today.

Homework Due Wednesday 1/25: 5-6 #14, 16, 18, 20, 49, 50, 53
                                                       5-7 #10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 34, 43, 47
                                                       Chapter 5 Test Tuesday 1/31

Class Notes Sections 5-6 and 5-7

Class Notes 1/19

Today in class we covered section 5-4 (Subtracting mixed numbers by regrouping). In this section we saw examples where the fraction of the second number was greater than the first meaning we had to borrow in the first number in order to subtract properly.

There is no homework over the weekend.

Section 5-4 Class Notes

Class Notes 1/17

Today in class we covered sections 5-2 and 5-3 of the textbook. Both sections cover methods in which we can add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers that have unlike denominators.

Homework Due Thursday 1/19: 5-2 #16, 18, 24, 26, 41, 42, 46
                                                    5-3 #15, 17, 33, 35, 43, 48

Section 5-2 Class Notes

Section 5-3 Class Notes

Class Notes 1/12

Today in class we went over the chapter 4 quiz and then we moved right into our coverage of chapter 5 (Fractional Operations). The first unit from this chapter covered least common multiples (LCM), where we learned different techniques to find common multiples of two or more numbers.

Homework due Tuesday 1/17: Section 5-1 # 15, 16, 19, 20, 34, 35, 37, 39, 40.

Class Notes Section 5-1

Class Notes 1/10

Today in class we took our fraction concepts quiz

Homework Due Thursday 1/12: Read Sections 5-1 and 5-2 of your textbooks.

Class Notes 1/6

Today in class we covered sections 4-7 (comparing fractions) and 4-8 (adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators). We went over the class notes that involved some example of comparing like fractions and then examples where the fractions were unlike (different denominators).

We then worked in groups for both sections trying some examples.

Homework due Tuesday 1/10: Section 4-7 Handout 1a-1c (front side) and 1a & 1b (back side)
                                                  4-8 #10, 11, 15, 21, 25, 36, 42
                                                  Chapter 4 Quiz on Tuesday 1/10

Section 4-7 Class Notes

Section 4-7 Homework

Section 4-8 Class Notes

Class Notes 1/4

Today in class we covered sections that taught us how to make equivalent fractions (both visually and mathematically) and to go from an improper fraction to a mixed number and back.

Homework due Friday 1/6: Read sections 4-7 and 4-8
                                            Quiz Chapter 4 on Tuesday 1/10

Class Notes Section 4-5

Class Notes Section 4-6