Hello All! This week, our seventh graders will study the volumes of prisms and pyramids. They will have three assignments this week; a brief quiz on Monday covering surface area of prisms and pyramids, then a performance task on Friday, and finally the weekly homework(42 problems. The first half are from the previous week. The second half are from Monday through Thursday of this week.). 

Hello All! Fresh off the back of CMAS, we are getting back to a regular schedule. Well, for the most part, we will have MAPS testing on Thursday and Friday of this week. However, while we are not testing, our seventh graders will be continuing their work on geometry. We will focus our efforts this week on surface area and volume of three dimensional shapes. But, not before we get done with the pirate navigation activity that students began last week. This pirate activity will be one of three graded activities this week. There will also be a brief surface area and volume quiz as well as the weekly homework: 40 problems with teaching starting on Tuesday and proceeding through Friday.

Hello All! This week, as we work around CMAS testing, students will still have all four academic classes this week. However they will be abbreviated on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday and Friday will be a half day. Throughout this week, our seventh graders will be finishing their Q4 check up at the beginning of the week. Then, we will have a brief project using angles to chart nautical courses within a fictional map of the Caribbean. After which, we will begin chapter 10, covering three dimensional geometry. Students will turn in their Q4 check up, submit their course for the pirate mapping project, and the weekly homework(22 problems, largely review of older material but with some ventures into new content from Thursday).

Hello Everyone, As we approach spring break, our eighth graders will be studying negative exponents, zero exponents, and scientific notation(both what it is and how solve equations involving scientific notation). We will have three assignments to consider, the 8.1-8.4 quiz on Tuesday, part 2 of the chapter 8 performance task on Friday, and the weekly homework. Homework this week will consist of 34 problems which are intended to be completed sequentially in increments of roughly 9 from Monday to Thursday.

Hello All! As we come up on spring break, our seventh graders will be creating composite figures, measuring their area and perimeter, then we will be constructing shapes using their angle measures, and finding unknown angle measures by deduction. We will have a total of three assignments to consider this week, at the beginning of the week, students will be individually estimating area and perimeter of composite shapes, then we will have part 2 of the chapter 9 performance task, and finally we will have the week's homework which will consist of 40 problems meant to be completed sequentially, 10 problems at a time, from Monday to Thursday.

Hello All, we are officially in the fourth quarter! During this first week of the fourth quarter of the 2024-2025 school year, we will be opening the final section of our curriculum following geometry. In this first week, we will be covering a large portion of the chapter; area and circumference of circles, measurement of angles as well as perimeter and area of composite figures. Seventh graders will have three graded assignments this week; the early chapter 9 quiz(9.1-9.3), part 1 of the chapter 9 performance task, and the Q4 week 1 homework(26 problems, the majority of which come from last week while the last few will be practice from this week.)

Hello All! During this week, while we are in between quarters, we will be keeping pace with and maintain course on our curriculum. Our seventh graders will have one primary focus for this week; the chapter 8 test. Throughout the past two weeks, we have students statistics and we will open the week by tying these concepts together before reviewing and preparing for the test on this subject matter on Wednesday. Remember, we also have conferences on Thursday and Friday so there will be no school on either of these days! Students will not have homework this week as our full focus will be on the aforementioned test.

Hello All, it is hard to believe that we are already wrapping up the third quarter of the 24-25 school year. Within class this week, our seventh graders will be expanding their knowledge of statistics to include how to draw conclusions about populations using samples and how to compare different populations. As far as assignments go, seventh graders will have quizes on Monday and Thursday, a graded performance task on Friday, and the weekly homework. The homework for this week will consist of 27 problems which are meant to help students practice material from last week as well as from Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Since Thursday and Friday will largely be meant to round out and tie together the concepts from the chapter. Some other important information for this week, late work will be due on Wednesday so please make sure that students are able to submit any assignments that they have not already. Additionally, please check your email for my conference sign up link!

Hello All, during this sixth week of the third quarter, our seventh graders will be finishing our section on probability and progressing to its spiritual-successor, Statistics. Due to my partial absence last Thursday, I made the necessary decision to postpone the chapter 7 test to this Tuesday, February 18th. Following this, we will move into samples and populations within the statistical context. Following the aforementioned chapter 7 test, students will be responsible for their weekly homework(29 problems taught across Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday). While the material in this homework is new to this school year, much of it is encompassed by the curricula of past school years. The dual purpose of this is to help students become familiar with pathways to older memories while keeping the rigor appropriate for this grade level. 

Hello All, this week our seventh grade students will be finishing out their study of probability with compound probability being the primary topic of conversation. This week, students will be responsible for three assignments; the 7.3-7.4 quiz, the chapter 7 test, and their weekly homework. This week, homework will consist of 34 problems which is comprised of concepts from last week as well as Monday of this week. As we get later in the year, I have been stepping up the number of problems in our homework so as to build up students' stamina for this type of work.

Hello All, this four-day week marks the end of our unit on percentages. We will round out this section by studying compound interest before reviewing and preparing for our unit test. Throughout this week and in tandem with that which I mentioned before, our students will be undertaking a small project wherein they use their understanding of percentages in the context of building a business that manufactures a specific product, determining percent margin, and financing their creation through a simple interest loan. Outside of this project, students will have two assignments; the chapter 6 test and the Q3 Week 2 homework, which will be 24 problems covering percentages of numbers, percents of increase and decrease, and percent interest.