What’s Goin’ On In Room 133

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Colleagues, looks like we had a good review today. 

We covered – and recovered! – knowledge of Properties (Commutative & Associative for multiplication and addition, Identity & Inverse for multiplication and addition, multiplicative property of Zero, and last, but not least…the Distributive Property). 

Then we did a review of our Equations (that’s the two sheets of orange paper with 20 questions on it, sports fans.  Give it a look if you haven’t yet!).  And some of you even received the more comprehensive review packet that starts with the Order of Operations on the front and ends with Equations and Inequalities on the back.   That packet packs quite a punch (try saying that 3 times fast!). 

To help you get ready, spend some time looking over the notes in the review packet and answering some (or all) of the questions in each section.  If you did not get the review packet in your period that means that you have plenty to do with the worksheets you have (above), and the links from this blog to the different sites that we went over in class this week. 

Work on the parts that give you the most trouble so that you’re prepared for anything that comes.  (And that includes doing my online Hot Quiz, baby! – see the post below!)  —Kudos to Sophia, Chrishaun, Olivia, Christina, and Kandace for being the first ones to send in your quiz!  And one other person who got 100% on 20 questions, but failed to give me their name – oh, dear!

On Monday, we will look at Order of Ops, making sense out of verbal expressions in math and then we will dive into reading and analyzing math word problems (the ones you did on page 153, Math 7 colleagues.  And you Enriched Math folks – yours is on page 125). 

Take the time to prepare, Colleagues – it does a body good !

OK, Colleagues – second quarter test is coming up.  It’s going to cover a lot – from fraction-decimal-percent comparisons and conversions, to powers and exponents, to order of operations, to variables and experessions, to verbal expressions and word problems, to solving equations and inequalities, not to mention the vocabulary that goes along with that and – oh yeah! – know your properties, too!  (All of them!)

Yeah, it’s a lot – but I know you can handle it!  For one, you’re taking the time to read this when you could be surfing on to something else.  And for two, you have a ton of links right here to practice your stuff and get immediate feedback on.  So you’ll make it alright.  Just give yourself a chance by checking out the Great Links page.  In fact, to help you out, I just posted a link to our brand new Hot Quiz program.  Didn’t know about that, did you?  Check it out!!

Colleagues, dear colleagues.  We have come so far in such a short time.  Normally, I put our video links on our Great Links Abound! page (and you do want to check there for new stuff from time to time).  But I want to put these two in a post because it reminds us that all math is inter-related.  When we truly understand the properties of our extraordinary number system, we find that we spend less time crunching numbers and more time exploring ideas.  

Now, mind you, these links won’t illustrate that last point; that’s just your crazy Mr Edwards going off again about math!  And these links are not spectacular; they just show a lady going over some math problems.  But they DO remind us about a few things we have learned this year – and applies them to what we are doing now.  So get a pencil, a small notepad and your favorite hot beverage and click away!  (And when it really starts gettin’ good to ya - try not to spill that stuff on your keyboard, okay? )

Math Lab Lady – Part 1

Math Lab Lady – Part 2

Take up the challenge to make up your grades, Colleagues! 

Some of you need to make up for the score on your Integers Test.  Some of you need the extra practice.  And some of you need the extra credit! 

The review packet (which most of you will get it on Friday) has a lot of good tips and examples – as well as some great word problems.  (Eleven of them on the 7.5 Integers section, as a matter of fact.) 

Come see me and let’s talk about how many you will need to do to make up your grade!  Essayons!

Okay, colleagues, this is what you’re going to need to know:

Remember coordinate planes?  You’ll need to plot and read a few coordinates and you’ll need to know which quadrant is which. 

You’ll need to do everything with equations that we have covered:  the difference between equations and expressions, the difference between algebraic and numeric; how to form an equation/expression from the written descrpition (such as “Four less than a number is twelve”.  Well, you know that can be written as X – 4 = 12, right?); and you’ll need to know how to solve one step equations (6x = 18, therefore x = 3) and two step equations 6x + 5 = 17, therefore x = 2). 

You’ll need to know how to work with any formula you are given.  Page 131, Section 3-7 in the text; remember that a formula simply shows what the relationship is among different quantities, such as between distance, rate (or speed) and time -> distance = rate X time. 

Or you could be give a formula that was developed to help keep track of inventory or pricing (such as the first item costs $25 and each additional item costs $10).  Either way, if you are given a formula, you should be able to plug in the numbers where they go and chug away. 

By the way:  that relationship stuff sounds very much like our dealings when we looked at proportions and scale.  Might not hurt to take a look-see at that while you’re at it.)

You have had two major quizzes leading up to this test so, along with this guidance, you have enough material to look over.   You should do fine , colleagues – if you’re being honest with yourself. 

Essayons!