ALGEBRA: 6-7 to 6-12

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ALGEBRA: Chapter 5 Individual Test

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Revolutionary War: Historical Fiction Assessment

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ALGEBRA: Chapter 6 Lesson 1Preview

After completing your Chapter 5 Individual Test and submitting it, please view the video below...

Career Fair Day - Reflection

Please Reflect on The Day!

Create a Tweet or Blog Post about the experience!

ALGEBRA: Chapter 5 Team Test Submit

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ALGEBRA: 5-90 to 5-98 (22 pts)

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Student - Led Conferences

As you enter the PCMS Library, you will need to find an iPad and an area to sit.

Items that you should share with your parents:

• Room 2025 website and some features on it.
• What is this website used for?  What can you find here?
• Pulaski Google
• Endeavor House: YouTube Channel
• Professional Blog
• On Your Professional Blog
• How and Why you create a blog
• Discuss The Science Lab - must have logged into Google!
• Explain how we use Google Docs-create, collaborate, share with others
• Discuss Summary of Revolutionary War Novel
• Discuss as many math and social studies posts as you can!  This is your professional portfolio and there are many educational and fun items that you learned throughout the year.
• Discuss our collaborative whiteboard areas for learning in small groups
• Your Twitter Account
• Discuss Why We Use It
• Discuss How We Use It
• Demonstrate one or more apps that we have used in our classroom
• Your Grades Using Skyward - GET YOUR GRADES HERE
• Discuss 9th Grade Scheduling
• Students will receive general scheduling information from high school counselors in social studies classes on February 1 and 2.
• High School Schedule Night; Monday, February 6 from 6-8 P.M.
• Referendum Information - please take one sheet home with you! 

As you are ending, thank your mom and dad for spending time with you and for coming to hear about the great things that you are learning in 8th grade!

Rise To The Revolution

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ALGEBRA:

5-85 to 5-89 (16 pts)
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Create one blog post reflection that includes the following terms:

• generic rectangle 
• ratio 
• standard form 
• Distributive Property 
• proportion
  
• Use pictures from the chapter to encourage understanding

Another Invitation to Student-Led Conferences

To inform your parents that you would like them to join you on either

• January 24, 2012 3:30 - 7:00
• January 26, 2012 3:30 - 7:00

in the PCMS Library for Student - Led Conferences you are going to send them a text message.

Information you need to include:

• WHAT: Student-Led Conferences
• WHEN:  Jan 24 or Jan 26 3:30-7:00
• WHERE: PCMS Library
• WHY:  Because I want to talk with you

What if I don't have a cell phone?  Type their cell phone number followed by the information that pertains to their cell phone carrier.

• Cellcom:  10digitnumber@cellcom.quiktxt.com
• US Cellular: 10digitnumber@email.uscc.net
• Sprint/Nextel: 10digitnumber@messaging.nextel.com or 9205551212@messaging.sprintpcs.com
• Verizon: 10digitnumber@vtext.com
• AT&T: 10digitnumber@txt.att.net

ALGEBRA: 5-83 Tag and Recapture

Learning Target:  Students will apply their proportional understanding to solve an problem.

Watch and Learn how Tag and Recapture is done in the real world:



Your Job:

1. Capture 15 tad poles (beans) from the pond (bag) and tag them with red marks
2. Place all 15 tad poles back in the bag.
3. Capture your first sample by dumping some tadpoles on to your desk.  Do not dump all of them.

From here can you set up a proportion to determine how many total tadpoles are in the pond?

You must perform six captures AFTER your initial tag.  Use a one of the measures of central tendencies to determine the total number of tadpoles in the pond.

AT NO TIME SHOULD YOU BE COUNTING ALL THE TADPOLES IN THE POND!


REFLECTION:
Blog about your experiences on your professional blog!  Include pictures and thoughts!

Rise To Revolution: Tell The Story

Without notes, you will need to tell the story of the events leading to the American Revolution by SPECIFICALLY FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS found below...

You are a person!  Your name is America and you are witnessing these events.  TWEET the requirements specifically in order and FOLLOW DIRECTIONS!!!  Your tweets must have organization.  At the END of every tweet create your own hashtag: #amrev(first letter of first name)(first two letters of last name)  An example:  #amrevlpi

• You just witnessed the Declaration of Independence (tweet the date, who you are independent from and what the event means) 
• Two (2) tweets describing two of the organizers (people or groups) of the Revolution
• Two (2) tweets of two examples that "stir up" the colonists to fight
• Four (4) tweets of laws that created tension
• One (1) tweet about why these laws had to be made
• One (1) tweet about the mentality of colonies as they were growing

REASON:  On Tuesday, you will need to write 100 words exactly that tells the story of the events leading to the American Revolution!  YOU WILL HAVE NO ACCESS TO NOTES!!!  

Revolution on the Rise

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PreAlgebra 2: Chapter 4 Quiz Review

1: Woodrow makes stools with three legs and stools with four legs.  One day he used 77
legs to make 21 stools.  How many stools of each type did he build?


2:  Linda had three times as many dimes as nickels. She had $3.85 altogether.  How many
dimes did Linda have?

Order of Operations:
 (6 − 4) × 49 ÷ 7


43 − 1
4 + 2       + 10

 (2 + 6 × 2 + 2 − 4) × 2


Convert:

6/10 into a decimal

0.7 into a percent

92% into a fraction

Mean:

Find the mean and round to the nearest tenth:
45, 23, 64, 97, 56, 61, 0, 29

Find the y values given the x values in y=4 +3 + (2x-1)

x = -2
x = -1
x = 0
x = 1
x = 2

ALGEBRA: Proportion Concept Enforcement!

Learning Target:  By the end of class, you should be able to set up a proportion based on a picture's information.  They should be able to solve.
Correct Your Assignment:



SUBMIT YOUR SCORE FROM 5-77 to 5-82

The videos TOTAL 18 minutes and you need to watch them all!!!  They will help you solve the problems at the end of today's lesson.

Understanding a Proportion



Watch Setting Up Proportions


Find an Unknown in a Proportion


Find an Unknown in a Proportion 2


Complete the six problems below on the Tactilis app or your paper and post the work to your blog.

All problems MUST be solved using a PROPORTION!

1) If there are 60 minutes in 1 hour, how many minutes are there in 24 hours?



2) The property tax rate in a certain town is $8.50 for every $1000 of a house’s value. If Jose’s
house is valued at $176,000, what is the property tax on Jose’s house?



6) Mary wants to empty her email box at work, which has 5600 messages in it. If she works 5 days in a week and deletes 20 messages each week, how many days will it take to delete all the messages?



7) Bob determined that 3 lottery tickets out of every 60 tickets he buys are winners. What percentage
of the tickets he buys are winners?



8) A recipe that makes 6 dozen cookies calls for 2 teaspoons of baking soda and 14 ounces of sugar.
How much sugar would be needed to make 21 dozen cookies with this recipe?



9) Lopa purchases a 64 ounce container of orange juice for $2.48. If a 96 ounce container of orange
juice was sold at the same cost per ounce, what would be the price of the 96 ounce container?

PreAlgebra 2: Chapter 4 Individual Quiz (Wednesday)

Complete the work on the paper quiz that is handed out to you in class.  Transfer all of your answers to the form link below. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE INPUTTED THE CORRECT ANSWERS IN THE FORM!

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ALGEBRA: 5-67 to 5-71 Submit Answers

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ALGEBRA: 5-57 to 5-71

Submit Homework for 5-57 to 5-62 (11 pts)

Each of you will be called up to Discuss/Review Chapter 5 Quiz problems that you missed.  If you are not in the direct instruction area, then you will be viewing the less below and completing all of the problems.  You will need a set of headphones and your iPad.

First, some fun...could you get the 15,000?  Don't cheat, see if you can come up with the correct answer BEFORE she reveals it!


Now watch the video lesson and complete!

LINK: View The Lesson 5-63 to 5-66

Extended Learning: 5-67 to 5-71

QR Code Message!

Martin Luther King, Jr's Notes and Papers Debut online: READ ABOUT DURING D.E.A.R. Time

2012 To Be The Year Of Student...

2012 To Be The Year Of Student Blogging!
http://theedublogger.com/2012/01/12/2012-to-be-the-year-of-student-blogging/

Can we do this?

Guess & Check Tables

1.  The number of girls at camp was 4 more than twice the number of boys, and altogether there were 58 campers.  How many boys and girls are there?

2.  John is four years younger than his brother Michael, and their sister, Hannah, is three years younger than twice John's age.  Altogether their ages total 45.  What are the ages John, Michael, and Hannah?

3.  Erin the softball coach, is ordering new equipment for the season.  Erin ordered three times as many helmets as bats, and five more softballs than helmets. Altogether, she brought 40 new pieces of equipment.  How many helmets, bats, and softballs did she purchase?

PREALGEBRA: GC 91

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ALGEBRA: 5-49 to 5-54

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Revolutionary War

Timeline of Classroom Events:
Week 1
Direct Instruction: Road To A Revolution
Pairs: View on Netbook: Colonial America
Pairs: Complete iPad: Form of Colonial America
Self: Complete on Screenchomp: Get Directions

Individual: Finalize Production of Educreation

Week 2
Theme: Rise To Revolution
Individual: Gathering information regarding events laws, and people leading up to the Revolutionary War.  All the information you need can be found HERE.
Large Group:  Direct Instruction to check learning

Individual: Twitter News Reporter

Week 3
Theme: The Revolutionary War
Individual: Complete the Revolutionary War Timeline Scavenger Hunt
Direct Instruction: Differences between armies and battles - Debating
Individual: Create a commemorative stamp on the 229 year anniversary of the Revolutionary War using a collage app.

Week 4
Direct Instruction: Constitution-Cause & Affects of building a nation
Individual:




Information Resources:
At the time, global exploration was in full swing.

Timeline of the Revolution

The American Revolution

Virtual Tour of the Revolution

Event Newspaper Headlines

American Revolution Center

The American Revolution: The Conflict Ignites

Our American Revolution

History Channel: American Revolution

Revolutionary War

Apps on Your iPads
Early Jamestown App

The Revolution Interactive Guide

American Revolution History Challenge

Information from Day 1 of Class
Colonial America
Road To The Revolutionary War
Cause and Effects Toward The Constitution
The Story of America

Creative Commons Photos-What You Should Be Doing

ALGEBRA: 5-39 to 5-44 (8pts) & Wednesday Class

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5-46b: Simply make "legal moves" so that -6x + 2y = 10 is in y = mx + b form

5-47 Enter Your Work

5-48: Complete Only b, d, f, h

Need help with 5-51?  The video below will provide you with an example:


More help in changing standard form to y=mx+b

Three New Apps For D.E.A.R. Time

Career Survey

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5-37

5-34

PreAlgebra GC 70 and 71 (Tuesday)

Learning Target: Students will practice review graphing stories over time and creating an xy-table.

Correct:  Submit Your Score For the Digital Practice From Website

We will be viewing a number of real graphing stories.  These stories will help you to master graphing which involves the changing over time.  The following link will need to be opened with the NOTES app.  You will need THIS PIECE OF GRAPH PAPER  Complete the graphing for each problem on this paper.

Group Work:

1.  Elevation vs. Time


2.  Elevation vs. Time Walking Down Stairs


3.  Pain vs. Time - Watch Out!


4.  Speed vs. Time - A car!



After you have completed all four graphs.  Take a picture of your work and post it to your professional blog.  Entitle it "Graphing Stories" and state something that you learned.

Individual Work:
Now that we have graphed real problems over time, let's look at them directly in a mathematical sense.  Watch the video below and copy items down for your reference.


If time, practice using DiaMath app for problem GC - 75.  Create the settings as seen below.

Extended Learning:  GC 72 to GC 78 (20 pts)

ALGEBRA: Tuesday

Learning Target: Students will solve linear equations that involve multiplication.  Students will also solve quadratic equations that simplify to linear equations.

Submit Homework 5-27 to 5-32

In Class:  5-33: after completing all problems, create a TWEET describing which method you like the best in order to solve these problems.  Hashtag #pcmsmath

5-34: Build this on your collaborative white board, create the same drawing that is on your white board with an app of your choice.

The following is new information.  Only complete the problems that are listed!
5-35
5-36
5-37:  Complete a, c, e
5:38: a, c

With five minutes remaining, please set your DiaMath app to the settings below.  Direct practice review from homework last night, but in a game format!

Extended Learning: 5-39 to 544

Algebra 5-24

Algebra 5-21

ALGEBRA: 5-15 to 5-20 Submit Homework

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ALGEBRA: 5-24 Generic Rectangles

Join with this link to see 5-22 and 5-24 explanations.

Join with this link to upload your Educreations explanations of 5-24.

Educreations App

Afternoon Block:

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PreAlgebra 2: Distributive Property (Monday)

Your assignment: Please notice that some of the answers are on the bottom of the sheet to help you master the Distributive Property.

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Algebra: 5-4 to 5-6, 5-9 Submit Homework

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5-2 c

This is wrong!

Algebra: Chapter 5 (problems 5-1 to 5-3)

Algebra Tiles: Manipulate tiles to understand binomials

Algebra Tiles: Understanding algebraic expressions

Algebra Tiles: Building Rectangles and Finding the Product-Example: (x+3)(x+2)

PreAlgebra 2: Chapter 4 Team Quiz Screencast

Watch and correct and mistakes you have on your test!

Rise Over Run

Look carefully at each diagram, take the information that is provided and create a rise over run or slope.  You are writing the m in y=mx+b

1)

2)

For this last one, you need to know dimensions.

Each stair is 7" high and each flat step area has 12" for your foot!

3)

Tweet or Blog your answers!

Happy New Year!