October 12, 2015

I hope everyone is enjoying their day off! If you're getting bored and tired of watching tv then check out some of the fun websites listed below! Also read about what we will be doing this upcoming week! See everyone tomorrow!

Periods 1/2 and 3/4 - Tomorrow we will play another integer card game that will help us understand how to subtract integers. You will also be getting a new notes packet for lessons 6 through 9. We will be having a quiz on Thursday. 

The quiz will cover lessons 1 through 6: 
Zero Pairs
Additive Inverses
Absolute Value
Modeling Addition on a Number Line
Adding Integers and Rational Numbers without a Number Line
Subtracting Integers without a Number Line

Period 8 -  REMINDER: SCIENTIFIC NOTATION PROJECT DUE TOMORROW! Please turn in your rubric along with your project when you come to class tomorrow. This week we will practice writing numbers into proper scientific notation form and we will learn how to add and subtract numbers when they are written in scientific notation form. There will be a quiz on Wednesday. I will give you a quiz review tomorrow in class to start on and you will finish it for homework.

The quiz will cover the following topics:
Converting numbers to standard form and scientific notation form
Ordering and Comparing Numbers that are in scientific notation form
Writing Numbers in Proper Scientific Notation
Multiplying and Dividing Numbers in Scientific Notation
Review of Exponent Properties

Fun Games to Check Out:

http://www.mathplayground.com/ASB_OrbitIntegers.html
http://www.mathplayground.com/ASB_SpiderMatchIntegers.html
http://www.math-play.com/integer-games.html
http://www.mathplayground.com/index_fractions.html

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Periods 1/2 and 3/4: Last week we finished up how to add integers using a number line with a focus on additive inverses. Yesterday students learned rules on how to find the sum of integers without using a number line. Today students practiced and applied those rules to rational numbers as well. We will continue practicing on adding rational numbers without using a number line for the rest of this week. Next week we will begin our lesson on how to subtract integers and rational numbers.

Period 8: Yesterday students learned how to order and compare numbers that are written in scientific notation. The key rule was to look at the exponents. Today they took a quick check on ordering and comparing as well as learn how to multiply numbers written in scientific notation. Tomorrow we will practice multiplication as well as division. We will practice and apply this skill for the remainder of the week. REMINDER: scientific notation project due October 13th!

Period 9: Students are working on solving one step equations involving all four operations. We will continue to work on this for the remainder of the week. Other topics that will be covered in their math class and reinforced in my class are simplifying expressions and the distributive property along with solving two step equations.

FIELD TRIP THURSDAY FOR 7TH GRADERS! WEAR ATHLETIC CLOTHING AND GYM SHOES! BRING A LUNCH!