Pre-Algebra Lesson Plans
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Week of May 12 - May 16
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Monday May 12 |
Lesson 13-5 Linear and Non-Linear Functions Homework: page 723-724 (8-23) |
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Tuesday May 13 |
Lesson 13-6 Graphing Quadratic and Cubic Functions Homework: page 729 (10-25) Review for test |
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Wednesday May 14 |
Test on Chapter 13 |
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Thursday May 15 |
Review for exam |
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Friday May 16 |
Review for exam |
Week of May 5 - May 9
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Monday May 5 |
Lesson 13-1 Polynomials Homework: page 703 (11-30) |
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Tuesday May 6 |
Lesson 13-2 Adding Polynomials Homework: page 708 (6-23) |
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Wednesday May 7 |
Lesson 13-3 Subtracting Polynomials Homework: page 712 (8-18) |
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Thursday May 8 |
Review three topics from this week. |
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Friday May 9 |
Mid-Chapter test on 13-1 to 13-3 Lesson 13-4 Multiplying a Polynomial by a Monomial Homework: page 718 (8-29) |
Week of April 28 - May 2
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Monday April 28 |
Students are taking a placement test today to help us in evaluating their placement for the 2008-2009 school year. |
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Tuesday April 29 |
Lesson 10-7: Circles: Circumference and Area Homework: page 554 (7-24) |
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Wednesday April 30 |
Lesson 10-8: Area: Composite Figures Homework: page 561 (5-15) |
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Thursday May 1 |
Chapter 10 Review |
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Friday May 2 |
Chapter 10 Test |
Week of April 21 April 25
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Monday April 21 |
HOLIDAY Enjoy! |
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Tuesday April 22 |
Lesson 10-4 Quadrilaterals Homework: pages 534 535 (6-24) |
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Wednesday April 23 |
Review for Mid-Chapter test using page 537 Homework: Anything not completed in class study |
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Thursday April 24 |
Mid-Chapter test Chapter 10 Lesson 10-5: Polygons Homework: page 542 (6-23) |
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Friday April 25 |
Lesson 10-6: Area: Parallelograms, Triangles, and Trapezoids Homework: page 549 (8-21) |
Week of April 14 April 18
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Monday April 14 |
Lesson 10-2 Congruent Triangles Homework: pages 521-522 (6-20) |
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Tuesday April 15 |
Lesson 10-3 Transformations on the Coordinate Plane Homework: page 528 (5-12) |
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Wednesday April 16 |
Lesson 10-3 Continued Worksheets for 10-3 pages 18 and 19 |
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Thursday April 17 |
Extension of Lesson 10-3 Rotations on a Coordinate Plane We will do work in class Band and Choir students will not be responsible for this information. |
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Friday April 18 |
We will only meet sections 1 and 3 - ½ day We will review Transformations and Rotations No Homework |
Week of April 7 April 11
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Monday April 7 |
Lesson 9-5 The Distance Formula Homework: page 495 (5-21) |
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Tuesday April 8 |
Lesson 9-6 Similar Figures and Indirect Measurement Homework: pages 500-501 (5-19) |
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Wednesday April 9 |
Review for Chapter 9 test |
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Thursday April 10 |
Chapter 9 test |
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Friday April 11 |
Lesson 10-1 Line and Angle Relationships Homework: page 516 (8-25) |
Week of March 31 April 4
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Monday March 31 |
1st period testing 2nd period testing 3rd period Work through page 482 Mid-Chapter Quiz together, answer questions about Fridays quiz |
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Tuesday April 1 |
1st period testing 2nd period testing 3rd period Lesson 9-4 The Pythagorean Theorem Homework: page 488 (8-17) Students should be able to complete these problems in class. |
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Wednesday April 2 |
1st period Lesson 9-4 The Pythagorean Theorem Homework: page 488 (8-17) Students should be able to complete these problems in class. 2nd period testing 3rd period testing |
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Thursday April 3 |
1st period testing 2nd period testing 3rd period Continue Lesson 9-4 Homework: pages 488-489 (18-34) |
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Friday April 4 |
1st and 2nd period Continue Lesson 9-4 Homework: pages 488-489 (18-34) Students should complete this in class. 3rd period testing |
Week of March 24 March 28
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Monday March 24 |
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Tuesday March 25 |
Lesson 9-1 Squares and Square Roots Homework: page 467 (9-30) |
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Wednesday March 26 |
Lesson 9-2 The Real Number System Homework: pages 472-473 (12-47) |
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Thursday March 27 |
Lesson 9-3 Triangles Homework: pages 479-480 (10-34) |
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Friday March 28 |
Mid-Chapter test on the first three sections I will be
going with my youngest son (4th grade) to |
Week of March 10 March 14
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Monday March 10 |
Lesson 8-3: Inequalities Homework: page 433 (12-39) |
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Tuesday March 11 |
Lesson 8-4: Solving Inequalities by Adding or Subtracting Homework: page 438 (12-34) |
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Wednesday March 12 |
Lesson 8-5: Solving Inequalities by Multiplying and Dividing Homework: page 444 (11-20) |
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Thursday March 13 |
Lesson 8-6: Solving Multi-step inequalities Homework: page 448 (10-23) |
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Friday March 14 |
Test on Chapter 8 Have a GREAT Spring break! |
Week of March 3 March 7
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Monday March 3 |
Chapter Review |
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Tuesday March 4 |
Chapter 7 test Part 1 There WILL be vocabulary on this test!! Period 2 will be listening to a visiting choir so we will begin the test on Wednesday and finish on Thursday. |
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Wednesday March 5 |
Chapter 7 test Part 2 Period 2 begins test today. |
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Thursday March 6 |
Period 2 will finish their test. Lesson 8-1 Solving Equations with Variables on Each Side Homework: page 422 (10-23) |
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Friday March 7 |
Lesson 8-2: Solving Equations with Grouping Symbols Homework: page 427 (12-28) |
Week of February 25 February 29
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Monday Feb. 25 |
Page 778 Sections 7-6 and 7-7 Evens in both sections |
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Tuesday Feb. 26 |
Lesson 7-8 Prediction Equations Homework: page 405-406 (5-15) |
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Wednesday Feb. 27 |
Work through chapter review in the book |
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Thursday Feb. 28 |
After taking several quizzes this week, I have decided that we need some more work on finding slope and writing the equation of a line given two points. We will be working through several worksheets to try and solidify these concepts. Finish any uncompleted parts of the worksheet from class. |
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Friday Feb. 29 |
Worksheets on slope and slope-intercept form of a line. Finish any uncompleted parts of the worksheet from class. |
Week of February 18 February 22
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Monday Feb. 18 |
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Tuesday Feb. 19 |
Worksheets on Sections 7-3 and 7-4. Students should complete page 27 if not finished in class. |
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Wednesday Feb. 20 |
Lesson 7-5 Slope Homework: page 387-388 (8-25) |
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Thursday Feb. 21 |
Lesson 7-6 Slope-Intercept Form Homework: page 393 (9-31) |
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Friday Feb. 22 |
Lesson 7-7 Writing Linear Equations Homework: page 400-401 (10-31) |
Week of February 11 February 15
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Monday Feb. 11 |
We will work through the mid-chapter quiz on page 382. Study for a mid-chapter test tomorrow. |
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Tuesday Feb.12 |
Mid-Chapter test for Chapter 7. The concepts in this chapter are very new so we are taking time to make sure we understand the first part of the chapter. |
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Wednesday Feb.13 |
After taking the Mid-Chapter quiz, I have decided that we need to review some concepts. Today we are reviewing how to solve two-step equations. Students worked on a worksheet in class. No homework. |
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Thursday Feb. 14 |
Half-day , I will only meet 2nd period. We will work on direct variations. 1st and 3rd periods will review this when we return. Please work with your students on reviewing the first part of chapter 7. |
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Friday Feb. 15 |
HOLIDAY ENJOY! |
Week of February 4 February 8
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Monday Feb. 4 |
Chapter 6 test Retake I will count the best grade from the two tests. |
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Tuesday Feb. 5 |
Lesson 7-1: Functions Homework: worksheets for 7-1 Due to the amount of visual examples in this section, I will provide students with worksheet packets for homework. |
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Wednesday Feb. 6 |
Lesson 7-2: Representing Linear Functions Homework: worksheets for 7-2 |
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Thursday Feb. 7 |
Lesson 7-3: Rate of Change Homework: page 374 (4-11) |
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Friday Feb. 8 |
Lesson 7-4: Constant Rate of Change and Direct Variation Homework: pages 380-381 (7-18) Be ready for quizzes anytime this week. |
Week of January 28 February 1
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Monday Jan. 28 |
Lesson 6-10: Using Sampling to Predict Homework: page 346 (5-15) |
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Tuesday Jan. 29 |
Seventh grade will be gone to the Space and |
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Wednesday Jan. 30 |
Chapter Review |
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Thursday Jan. 31 |
Test on Chapter 6 |
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Friday Feb. 1 |
Due to the poor grades on the test students are correcting their tests in class. Homework: Finish corrections and get test signed for a quiz grades. Study to take another test Monday. |
Week of January 21 January 25
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Monday Jan. 21 |
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Tuesday Jan. 22 |
Lesson 6-7: Finding Percents Mentally Homework: page 330 (10-32) |
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Wednesday Jan. 23 |
Lesson 6-8: Using Percent Equations Homework: page 335 (9-24) |
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Thursday Jan. 24 |
Lesson 6-9: Percent of Change Homework: Page 341 (7-19) |
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Friday Jan. 25 |
Continue Lesson 6-8 and 6-9 Worksheets in class Homework: Complete work not finished in class. |
Week of January 14 January 18
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Monday Jan. 14 |
We will review the first four sections in Chapter 6. We will try and go back over the important concepts from these sections today using worksheets. Homework: Complete worksheets not finished in class. |
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Tuesday Jan. 15 |
We are attending the Geography Bee today. No homework. |
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Wednesday Jan. 16 |
Lesson 6-5: Fractions, Decimals, and Percents Homework: page 316 (18-42, even) |
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Thursday Jan. 17 |
Lesson 6-6: Exploration lab Using a Percent Model Finish any work not completed in class. |
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Friday Jan. 18 |
Lesson 6-6: Using the Percent Proportion Homework: page 325 (10-24) |
Week of December 10 - 15
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Monday Dec. 10 |
Lesson 6-4 Scale Drawing and Models Homework: worksheet on scale drawings |
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Tuesday Dec. 11 |
Chapter 6 Mid-Chapter quiz work done in class |
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Wednesday Dec. 12 |
Check answers to mid-chapter quiz work problems together in class for review. |
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Thursday Dec. 13 |
Pass out Review Study Guide The semester test covers everything this semester! |
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Friday Dec. 14 |
Answer any questions on the review sheet. |
Week of December 3 - 7
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Monday Dec. 3 |
Review of Chapter 5 |
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Tuesday Dec. 4 |
TEST on Chapter 5 |
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Wednesday Dec. 5 |
Lesson 6-1 Ratios and Rates Homework: page 295 (13 37, odds) |
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Thursday Dec. 6 |
Lesson 6-2 Proportional and Nonproportional Relationships Homework: page 299 (4-15) |
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Friday Dec. 7 |
Lesson 6-3 Using Proportions Homework: page 305 (6-27) |
Week of November 26 30
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Monday Nov. 26 |
Lessons 5-1 and 5-2 review Homework - worksheet |
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Tuesday Nov. 27 |
Lessons 5-3 to 5-5 review Homework - worksheet |
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Wednesday Nov. 28 |
Lessons 5-6 and 5-7 review Homework - worksheet |
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Thursday Nov. 29 |
Lesson 5-8 Solving Equations with Rational Numbers Homework PP. 270 271 (15 31 odds, 37-41) |
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Friday Nov. 30 |
Lesson 5-9 Measures of Central Tendency Homework Page 277 (7-14) |
Week of November 19 23
We will review all topics in Chapter 5 and have a chapter test the week after returning from Thanksgiving.
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Monday Nov. 19 |
Lesson 5-6 Least Common Multiple Homework: Worksheets (This is review for some students.) |
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Tuesday Nov. 20 |
Lesson 5-7 Adding and Subtracting Unlike Fractions We will do some problems in class but there will be NO HOMEWORK! |
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Wednesday Nov. 21 |
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Thursday Nov. 22 |
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Friday Nov. 23 |
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Week of November 12 - 16
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Monday Nov. 12 |
HOLIDAY - ENJOY |
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Tuesday Nov. 13 |
Lesson 5-6 Least Common Multiple Classwork: page 260 (14-28) Students should have completed these questions in class and checked their answers. |
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Wednesday Nov. 14 |
Lesson 5-6 Cont. Mid-Chapter Quiz |
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Thursday Nov. 15 |
Lesson 5-7 Adding and Subtracting Unlike Fractions Homework: page 266 (14-43) |
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Friday Nov. 16 |
We will take today to review any concepts students are struggling with. |
Week of November 5 - 9
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Monday Nov. 5 |
Lesson 5-1 Writing Fractions as Decimals Homework: page 231-232 (15-40) Get Test 4 signed for an extra 5 points |
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Tuesday Nov. 6 |
Lesson 5-2 Rational Numbers Homework: page 237 (14-46 evens) |
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Wednesday Nov. 7 |
Lesson 5-3 Multiplying Rational Numbers Homework: pp. 242-243 (18-44 ,52-62, evens only both groups) |
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Thursday Nov. 8 |
Lesson 5-4 Dividing Rational Numbers Homework: page 248 (17-48) |
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Friday Nov. 9 |
Lesson 5-5 Adding and Subtracting Like Fractions Homework: pp.252-253(15-32) |
Week of October 29 November 2
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Monday Oct. 29 |
Mid-Chapter Quiz Sections 4-1 to 4-4 |
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Tuesday Oct. 30 |
Section 4-6: Negative Exponents Homework: page 211 (14-34) |
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Wednesday Oct. 31 |
Section 4-7: Scientific Notation Homework: page 217 (9-33) |
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Thursday Nov. 1 |
Review for Chapter 4 |
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Friday Nov. 2 |
Chapter 4 test |
Week of October 22 - 26
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Monday Oct. 22 |
Section 4-1 Power and Exponents Homework: page 182 (14-46) |
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Tuesday Oct. 23 |
Section 4-2 Prime Factorization Homework: page 189 (11-38, 45) |
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Wednesday Oct. 24 |
Section 4-3 Greatest Common Factor Homework: page 194 (14-42) |
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Thursday Oct. 25 |
Section 4-4 Simplifying Algebraic Fractions Homework: page 199 (12-29, 33-36) |
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Friday Oct. 26 |
Section 4-5 Multiplying and Dividing Monomials Homework: page 206 (11-35) Monday we will have a mid-chapter quiz over sections 4-1 and 4-4 |
I realize that 6th grade students will be gone a large part of the week Oct. 22-26. I will work with them to make sure they get the new concepts we cover.
Week of October 15 19
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Monday Oct. 15 |
Only 1st and 3rd
periods Section 3-7 Sequences and Equations Homework: Page 160 (10-31) |
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Tuesday Oct. 16 |
Section 3-7 Sequences and Equations 2nd period ONLYHomework: Page 160 (10-52, odds) 1st and 3rd period Homework: Page 160 (32-52) |
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Wednesday Oct. 17 |
Section 3-8 Using Formulas Homework: page 165 (7-22) |
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Thursday Oct. 18 |
Section 3-8 Using Formulas (Cont) Homework: pp. 165-166 (23-36) 2nd PERIOD ONLY 43-47 |
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Friday Oct. 19 |
Review Chapter 3 Practice Test IN CLASS page 173 No Homework |
Week of October 1 - 5
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Monday Oct. 1 |
Lesson 3-5 Solving Two-Step Equations Homework: page 150 (11-42) |
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Tuesday Oct. 2 |
TEST on Sections 3-1 to 3-4 |
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Wednesday Oct. 3 |
Lesson 30-5 (cont.) We worked on this in class. Students should have this almost completed. Finish for homework. |
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Thursday Oct. 4 |
Lesson 3-6 Writing Two-Step Equations Homework: pages 155-156 (6-19) |
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Friday Oct. 5 |
Lesson 3-6 (cont.) Worksheet NO HOMEWORK!!! Enjoy your time off! |
Week of September 24 - 28
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Monday Sept. 24 |
Lesson 3-2 Continued Homework: Worksheets |
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Tuesday Sept. 25 |
Lesson 3-3: Solving Equations by Adding or Subtracting Homework: page 139 (9-26) |
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Wednesday Sept. 26 |
Lesson 3-3 Continued Homework: No Homework We worked on this in class. |
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Thursday Sept. 27 |
Lesson 3-4 Solving Equations by Multiplying or Dividing Homework: page 144 (8-31) |
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Friday Sept. 28 |
Lesson 3-4 Continued NO HOMEWORK students worked on these in class and turned them in. |
Be ready for quizzes anytime.
Week of September 17 - 21
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Monday Sept. 17 |
2-6 The Coordinate System Homework: pp. 114-115 (11-20,22-40 even,59,60) |
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Tuesday Sept. 18 |
Review for Chapter 2 test We will work through the chapter review together. I recommend that students take advantage of the review materials at www.pre-alg.com |
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Wednesday Sept. 19 |
Chapter 2 TEST |
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Thursday Sept. 20 |
3-1 The Distributive Property Homework: pp. 127-128 (16-44 even, 63,64) |
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Friday Sept. 21 |
3-2 Simplifying Algebraic Expressions Homework: pp. 131-133 (14-46 even, 60,61) |
Week of September 10 14
We will have a test on Chapter 2 next Wednesday Sept. 19. I suggest that students try some of the online review activities at www.pre-alg.com If you need the username or password, please email me.
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Monday Sept. 10 |
Today we watched a powerpoint on Interesting Integers and worked on a set of worksheets covering adding Integers. No Homework all classwork |
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Tuesday Sept. 11 |
Students will continue work on yesterdays worksheets and will receive 3 more worksheets on subtracting integers. No Homework all classwork |
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Wednesday Sept. 12 |
We are continuing our review and will check the worksheets from Monday and Tuesday. Worksheets on Multiplying and Dividing Integers were passed out. No homework. |
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Thursday Sept. 13 |
We will continue checking our worksheets. |
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Friday Sept. 14 |
We are wrapping up our review of adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing integers. |
Week of September 3 - 7
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Monday Sept. 3 |
Enjoy Labor Day!! |
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Tuesday Sept. 4 |
Lesson 2-4: Multiplying Integers Homework: page 103 17-50 |
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Wednesday Sept. 5 |
Lesson 2-4: Multiplying Integers We will review this lesson and answer any questions Mid-Chapter Review - Quiz |
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Thursday Sept. 6 |
Lesson 2-5: Dividing Integers Homework: pp. 109-110 (10-29, 35-39) |
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Friday Sept. 7 |
Lesson 2-5: Dividing Integers Class work: p.104 (64-81), 109-110 (30,31,33,40-49) We did this work in class and students turned it in. |
Sixth and Seventh grade students will be working on review of any trouble areas and a web-based project if there are computers available. Eighth grade students will have the same opportunity later in the semester. There will be NO makeup work required.
Week of August 27 31
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Monday Aug 27 |
TEST ON CHAPTER 1 No homework |
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Tuesday Aug 28 |
Lesson 2-1: Integers and Absolute Value Homework: Pp. 81-82 (16-56 even) |
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Wednesday Aug 29 |
Lesson 2-2: Adding Integers Homework: p. 89 (14-32) *** We spend time in class on Wednesdays to reduce the homework load. *** |
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Thursday Aug 30 |
Lesson 2-2: Adding Integers (Part 2) and Subtracting Integers Homework: p. 89 (33-40) and p. 95 (14-31) We will work these problems in class and turn them in before leaving. NO HOMEWORK!! |
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Friday Aug 31 |
Enjoy your Labor
Day Break!!! |
Week of August 20 24
OUR BOOKS HAVE ARRIVED!! Your student should have one. Please try
the resources on the Glencoe website!
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Monday Aug 20 |
Lesson 1-5: Variable and Equations Homework: pp. 52-53 10-26 even, 28-31, 34-50 even |
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Tuesday Aug 21 |
Lesson 1-6: Ordered Pairs and Relations Homework: pp. 57-59 14-34 even, 37-41, 43, 45-53, 56-78 even |
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Wednesday Aug 22 |
Lesson 1-7: Scatter Plots (Part 1) Homework: pp. 64-66 6-16, 28-30 *** We spend time in class on Wednesdays to reduce the homework load. *** |
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Thursday Aug 23 |
Lesson 1-7: Scatter Plots (Part 2) Homework: pp. 64-66 17-22, 24-27, 31-41 |
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Friday Aug 24 |
Review for Chapter test.
Pages 69-72 It is suggested that students attempt all the problems
as a review concentrating on areas they may have difficulty with. FIRST
CHAPTER TEST MONDAY AUGUST 27. |
Week of August 13 17
Your students are receiving copies of the appropriate pages. They also received
a letter with the username and password to access the online textbook.
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Monday Aug 13 |
Lesson 1-2: Number and Expressions Homework: Pages 34-36 (16-34 even, 35-41,44,46-50, 52-66 even) |
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Tuesday Aug 14 |
Lesson 1-3: Variables and Expressions Homework: Pages 39-41 (13-34, 50, 51) |
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Wednesday Aug 15 |
Lesson 1-3: Variables and Expressions (cont.) Homework: Pages 39-41 (35-47, 49, 52-63) |
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Thursday Aug 16 |
Lesson 1-4: Properties Homework: Pages 46-47 (16-44 even, 47-50, 52-65 even) |
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Friday Aug 17 |
Review the first 4 sections: Work on a Mid-Chapter Review. This is review to see what we know. It will not count as a grade. |
Week of August 6-10
We are expecting to receive copies of the first chapter of the book to use until our new books arrive. We received the copies but
it did not include everything we expected.
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Monday Aug 6 |
Summer Still |
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Tuesday Aug 7 |
Last summer day |
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Wednesday Aug 8 |
Sign and return form stating you read the syllabus |
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Thursday Aug 9 |
Chapter 1 Section 1 handouts Pages 2 and 3 |
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Friday Aug 10 |
Chapter 1 Section 1 from copies of book Homework : Pages 29 30: (8-21 even, 22-25, 28 36) |
