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OK, Colleagues – for those of you who could have found better success on that last test (in other words, if you scored less than 70%) , this is your opportunity to get a passing grade in the books for this lesson.   And for those of you who wanted a better score than you got, this is your opportunity to raise it to the next letter grade.  (It’ll look real good on that report card!)

Print out the following worksheets.   There are some fill-in the blank notes (use your text, interactive notes and the old noodle!).  There are a few questions to do on the worksheet themselves.  And, on the second page of each sheet, I have a list of questions from your textbook* that you have to tackle.   Complete everything and bring it in for credit – or extra credit, if you’re into that sort of thing ! 

7.1 Test Make-up Fractions Percents

7.1 Test Make-up Scientific Notation

Git ‘er dun – and git yer grade right!  

(*Enriched Math: these questions are in the blue textbook, so see me if you want in on this!)

You have your sheet of fractions, Colleagues.  You need to annotate the decimal equivalent in the upper left corner and the percentage equivalent in the lower right corner of each fraction’s square.  (Sure hope you brought it home!  :0  If I find an e-version of the handout, I’ll post it here later this evening.)

Enriched Math Folks and anyone else up to the challenge:  We got to Scientific Notation and talked about using it for big numbers 93,000,000 miles between the earth and the sun.  And you also know that it can be used for small numbers too.  Can you figure out what the scientific notation is for any of the fractions on that sheet?  Hmmmm…

Rock on, Colleagues!    (Quiz tomorrow!)

Dear Colleagues, after a protracted absence from this blog, it’s time we considered where we are and where we are going. 

Our Enriched Math folks are laying down some more foundation by examing the relationship between numbers.  No, not the kind Dr Phil would examine, but the kind that forms the structure of all mathematical problems (products, quotients, factors).   After looking at some of the percentage and proportion work our Math 7 colleagues were doing, this was a good time to firm up that base of knowledge.  Now we can move forward in the world of one-step equations (I know, guys – too easy!) and, gasp, two-step equations  (now yer talking!)

And speaking of our Math 7 colleagues, we have figured out percentages, sales tax, discounts, commissions and the use of the percent proportion.  (Remember? This times that divided by that equals that!)  Now if we can just finish simple interest before Turkey Day, we can hopefully return to a high-tech class in our computer room on scale drawing.  Maybe I’ll even sneak in a little algebra on you if you’re not looking!