Today we begin our last big unit of the year, which covers statistical questions, collecting, graphing, and analyzing data, as well as mean, median, mode. This unit has several investigations, including a trashketball lab, paper airplane lab, and chocolate chip cookie analysis. As we go through the unit I will try and post pictures of our data collection activities.
We will also start getting ready for the M-Step test at the end of May. Homework this month will focus around reviewing the units from the year.

This week is Ratios and Proportions Common Assessment Week!  Because the common assessment is quite long, I thought it would be less stressful if we did it in parts.  Please use the study guides at home as well as ISN pages for a review.

Here is the schedule:

Monday:  Review for Part 1/Study Guide

Tuesday: Part 1 Test/Study Guide for Part 2

Wednesday: Part 2 Test

Thursday:  Study Guide for Part 3/In Class Practice

Friday:  Part 3 Test

At the right there is a link for Khan Academy and NWEA. If you log in or register for Khan Academy, which is free, you can view tutorial videos for your NWEA score range. These videos are very helpful, and you can then practice those skills on ixl.com. Any grade level is available for you on ixl.com.

For those students who would like an extra credit opportunity, here is a list of ixl.com topics that they can complete during the vacation.  They should have their user names and passwords with them at home to log in.

ixl.com Extra Credit Assignment

*These categories will help you prepare for the NWEA test and the M-Step test later in May.

2 points extra credit for any category completed with 85% score.

Due on Monday, April 13, 2015

Mixed operations

X.1Add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers

X.2Add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers: word problems

X.3Add, subtract, multiply, and divide integers

X.4Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals

X.5Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals: word problems

X.6Add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions and mixed numbers

X.7Add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions and mixed numbers: word problems

Geometry

Z.1Lines, line segments, and rays

Z.2Review of 2- and 3-dimensional figures

Z.3Angle review: measure and classify

Z.4Estimate angle measurements

Z.5Name angles

Problem solving and estimation

M.1Estimate to solve word problems

M.2Word problems with multiple steps or extra or missing information

M.3Guess-and-check word problems

M.4Distance/direction to starting point

M.5Use logical reasoning to find the order

By tomorrow, all students need to complete their ixl.com assignments. We will have time in class today and tomorrow to complete them. However, they may be completed at home as well.

The Common Assessment for Equations and Expressions will be on Thursday, February 27.  Attached here are review sheets that we completed in class. If you have any missing information, this will be the place to find them.  We are reviewing this week Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

Review Part 1(3)

Review Part 1(2)

Review Part 1(1)

Review Part 2(4)

Review Part 2(3)

Review Part 2(2)

Review Part 2

Over the next two weeks, students will need to complete some topics on ixl.com.  This will be a great way for them to review for the common assessment that they will take on Friday, February 13.  All topics have been covered or will be covered by Tuesday, February 10.

If students need computer access, I am here after school each Tuesday and Thursday from 3-4:45.  There is a bus that students can take after school, or they can get a ride home or walk home.  Please let me know in advance if your student will be staying after school.

My User Name:___________

My Password: ____________

Homework-February 2-13

Complete 8 of the following topics by 2/13/15. 

P.1Write variable expressions to represent word problems

P.2Evaluate variable expressions with whole numbers

P.3Solve word problems involving two-variable equations

P.5Does x satisfy the equation?

P.6Solve one-step equations with whole numbers

P.7Solve one-step equations involving decimals, fractions, and mixed numbers

P.8Evaluate multi-variable expressions

P.16Identify terms, coefficients, and monomials

P.17Add and subtract like terms

P.19Distributive property

P.22Inequalities on number lines

P.23Solutions to variable inequalities

P.24Solve one-step linear inequalities

If you have any problems with getting to a computer, you can stay after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Please let me know if you will need to stay after school.

Happy Vacation!  Here is the list of ixl.com topics students should be working on over the break.  They can choose to do more than the required assignments in each topic.  These are topics that students have been working on throughout November and December.

See you all in 2015!

ixl topics for vacation practice

This is the last week of the second marking period.  Please look over your student’s grades online to check that they are all caught up on their assignments.  The last day to turn any assignments in for credit will be Friday, November 21.

This week we are starting work with exponents.  This will lead right into working with the order of operations.

There will be a quiz on exponents on Thursday.

Have a great week!