Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Math 8 Percent

Reviewed questions from previously completed work.

Notes on percent of a number.

Assigned page 142 #3 - 9.

Math 9 Similar Triangles

Notes on Similar Triangles.

Assigned page 230-231 # 1 - 14.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Math 8 Percent

Tuesday--returned tests on Surface Area and Re-test of Basic Skills. Get both signed. Make corrections.

Monday--page 150 #1, 4 - 11.

Friday--Percent. Page 136 # 14 - 18

Math 9 Congruent Triangles and Ch. 1 Review

Tuesday--Introduced Similar Triangles. Review chapter one if you scored less than 100% in today's quiz.

Monday--page 52 # 1 - 35 and 43 - 71.

Friday--6.1 Sheet Congruent Triangles.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Math 8 Percent

Quiz on Percent, Decimals, Fractions.

Reviewed questions from yesterday's work.

Assigned page 129 # 9, 10, 12, and 13a.

Due Tuesday, March 30: # 12 is to be done as a formal assignment with a cover page. Use graph paper, a ruler, do neat and accurate work. Be sure it is of Final Draft Quality. Write the question at the top, with the answer following it.

Math 9 Congruent Triangles

Reviewed yesterday's work page 224.

Keep in mind the importance of using 3 letter identifiers for vertices that represent more than one angle.

Assigned page 252 # 1 - 5, and page 254 # 1 - 4.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Math 8 Percent

Reviewed questions from yesterday's work.

Working on conversion of values between percents, decimals, and fractions.

Assigned page 128 # 1-8.

Use a RULER when making diagrams.

Math 9 Congruent Triangles

Finished up activities on page 220-221.

Notes on how to demonstrate congruency of triangles.

Assigned page 224 # 1-23. Pay attention to the details and the format.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Math 8 Percent

Illustrated questions from yesterday's work.

Notes given on Fractions, Decimals, and Percents.

Assigned page 135 # 1 - 12.

(Rachel: today we moved to page 135, tomorrow we will do page128 # 1 - 8....that's the plan anyway...stay tuned tomorrow...)

Math 9 Unique/Congruent Triangles

Worked on page 220-221 identifying unique triangles.

Assigned Activities 1 - 7.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Math 8 Percent

In-class assignment on Surface Area. Took apart boxes along the glue lines and calculated Surface Area of the box with assumption of no overlap.

Began unit on percent.

Assigned page 122 # 1 - 4. Need to use graph paper and rule.

Math 9 Congruent Triangles

Investigation activity on Unique/Congruent Triangles.

Assigned page 220 Activities 1 - 4.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Math 8 Surface Area and Volume of Composite Solids

Questions from last day (page 265)

Introduced Composite Solids.

Assigned page 273 #5-7 and 8.5 sheet.

Test Thursday--Surface Area and Volume

Math 9 Surface Area and Volume

Registerd for TOSH during math class today.

Surface Area and Volume Test is on Thursday. Do plenty of questions to be reviewing for this.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Parent Teacher Interviews.

For Grade 9 Students: If you had an interview scheduled for Friday morning, your interview is now Monday morning. If you had an interview for Thursday night, it is now on Monday night. There should be plenty of openings for Monday afternoon if anyone would like to change their interview to that time.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Homeroom 9

Homeroom 9 students: spread the word...Math 9 test will be Thursday at the earliest...we need to finalize those registration forms as soon as we are together again....thanks Emma!

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Math 8 Surface Area and Volume

Reviewed questions from yesterday's work--focused on partially-filled prisms.

Assigned page 265 # 1 - 14.

Math 9 Surface Area and Volume

Reviewed Surface Area and Volume of Cones.

Began reveiw of chapter.

Assigned page 292 # 1-30.

TEST MONDAY CH. 7

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Math 8 Volume

Finished up page 250 # 1 - 11

Reviewed Volume of Prisms.

Assigned page 258-259 # 1 - 10.

Math 9 Surface Area and Volume of Cones

Finished up work on Cylinders.

Introduced Surface Area and Volume of Cones.

Assigned page 278 (to number 14) and 7.5 sheet.