See saw

HW: p. 124 179-183 odd

Remember, it's just plug it in

Today we worked on some plug it in problems that took some dissecting first. You are to work on a few more of these tonight:

page 122 and 123
#161-175 (odd)

Tomorrow: See-saws

Interest Problems

Come to class on Tuesday with your thinking caps on. There was a little frustration today--maybe it was because it was Friday or because we were so close to lunch, but our next class will take a lot of concentration and an open mind to think outside the box.

Homework for the weekend:
p. 109 #195, 197, and 199

Interest and Percentage problems

Easy Night

Finish test corrections.

We'll be returning to dirt and worms tomorrow. (see last post for details)

See you tomorrow.

DRT and WRMS

We worked on some d=rt problems that you are all familiar with from Pre-Algebra. Now that you are in Algebra we are working on DRT and WRMS. . . Worms is not an acronym for anything, it's just a little extra flavor (more complicated problems) using the DRT concepts.

You are to finish the problems that we started in class for homework:

p. 105-106
#135-146 (all)

*Please be sure that you check all of the odd ones in the back of the book before coming to class.

No Homework

Since we had our first test today, there is no homework for tonight, Tuesday, September 22

-enjoy your day off from work!

Test on Tuesday

The sub left good notes about your work in class today. I'll be back on Monday and I can answer any questions that you have about the test:

On the test you may see:

*Identifying Properties
*Simple Equations
*Translating expressions
*Translating and simplifying expressions
*Absolute value
*Integers, Fractions, and decimal work

We will go over any of these concepts that you want to on Monday, as well as go over the Cumulative Review on pages 86 and 87 that you did in class today. If you want more practice for the test, you can do the Chapter Tests at the end of Chapters 1 and 2.

Last but not least--for those of you that followed directions this weekend and came to see this site, I will ask the class if they know the following code word: ROY--that way I know if they have really come to the site. Remember ROY and don't tell anyone---SSSHHHHHHH!!!!!!

See you all on Monday.

Verbal expressions

We practiced translating verbal expressions and for HW please work on applying these skills.

Don't forget to look at the blog tomorrow to see what is on our test.

Test on Tuesday!!!!

HW for Thursday night is:
p. 76 #93-99

Properties

Our review (and for a few the first time---so you say) of properties today helped us to remember some basic number rules that will help us make sense of numbers as we continue our Algebra journey.

*You will be responsible for knowing that information on our first test. You can find them on pages 58-60.
~practice with those properties, we did in class, (p.65 #11-20)

* In class yesterday you all worked on review of simple equations. We will continue to working with some review of Pre-Algebra skills for the next few days. Our homework tonight is to practice some expression combinations.

*Homework for Tuesday night is:
p. 66 (#45-50, #61-72) please do ALL the problems included and not just the odd problems.

speak soon,
t.

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Review still

Today we worked on absolute value and opposites again and time with word problems. For weekend homework, please check these more challenging problems out.

p.20 #139-13 (odd)

The test that you started on the first day of classes was passed back to you today. Please complete the inventory (that shows me what you still want to work on some more) before Monday.

Have a great weekend

New Year!

This year will be an exciting adventure down math lane. I know that sounds quite cheesy, huh? Well, after sharing with you my stories of math horror----and you let me know that this gives you confidence in me as a math teacher. . .I hope that I can live up to those expectations.

I am excited to teach this class. A group of students that I haven't worked with, for the most part, since you were in your first year of middle school. My how time has flown. We are going to have a wonderful time getting to know each other "Mathematically"


Reminders from our mini class the other day:

You will need a cover for your book
You will need a composition book (I have about 9)
You will need your own method for taking notes and completing homework assignments

See you on Tuesday when we begin our adventure!