Hello Everyone, this week, our eighth graders are going to be opening the week at the end of a chapter. We will begin the week by preparing for and then taking the chapter 6 test. After that, we will open up the next unit, functions. Throughout Wednesday and Thursday of this week we will be covering the general notion of relations and functions. This week, students will be responsible for their chapter 6 test and the weekly homework. This week, homework consists of 36 problems which, while many come from the new unit, the actual concepts come from previous portions of the year. So, much of this should feel familiar. As our eighth graders approach high shool, I have started ramping up the volume of their homework problems so as to adequately prepare our students for the workload over the coming years.

Hello Everyone, our eighth graders will be jumping into our unit on data displays and data analysis. Throughout this week our focus will be on scatterplots, lines of fit, lines of best fit, and two-way tables towards the end of the week. On Wednesday, students will complete an activity in which students model growth of Opal, our school snake, over several months and use their models along with contextual information to draw conslusions about the snakes continued growth. The aforementioned project will be a graded assignment, students will have a brief quiz covering material from the week on Friday, and weekly homework will consist of 32 problems which will be taught progressively throughout the week.

Hello Everyone! During this second week back, our focus will stay on solving systems of linear equations. Particularly, on using algebraic techniques like substitution and elimination to do so. This week, students will have their weekly homework as well as a quiz on Thursday to look forward to. We will prepare for this quiz on Wednesday and review it on Friday before proceeding into the chapter test at the end of next week.

Hello Everyone! This week, our eighth graders will be diving, head first, into systems of linear equations with a study of how to solve linear systems by graphing and by substitution.  This week, students will be responsible for two assignments; the sections 5.1-5.2 quiz which we will take at the end of the week and the weekly homework. This week, this will consist of 32 problems. The first 9 are either from past weeks or Monday of this week, while the remaining 23 will be taught between Tuesday and Thursday.

Hello All! This week, our students will be closing the chapter on linear equations and opening the chapter on systems of linear equations. This week, the chapter 4 test on Wednesday, the weekly homework (26 problems; comprised mostly of material from before break, with material from Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week scattered throughout), and a new project which I will initiate on Friday to solidify students' understanding of this topic.

Hello Everyone! This week, we will be continuing our study of linear equations, expanding into both slope intercept form and standard form of  linear equations, culminating on Friday with slope Jeopardy. This week, students will be responsible for only two assignment; weekly homework and their jeopardy performance. Homework consists of 27 problems. Roughly the first half of which will be taught on Monday and Tuesday while the other half will be taught on Wednesday and Thursday. Throughout the homework, retrospective problems are scattered in order to re-expose students to older subject matter and call back to adjacent topics. As always, feel free to reach out with any questions.

Hello Everyone! This week we will be studying the slope of linear equations and the graphing of proportional relationships. This week students will be responsible for two assignments; the sections 4.1-4.3 quiz and the weekly homework. This week, the homework will be a bit shorter in alignment with the shorter week, consist of 25 problems. The first 20 problems will be taught on Monday and Tuesday, while the last 5 will be taught on Wednesday.

Hello Everyone! We will open this week by finishing our study of angles and triangles on Monday, then we will prepare for the chapter 3 test on Tuesday, before taking it on Wednesday. Then, in the latter half of the week, we will begin our study of linear equations and graphing for chapter 4. First with sloped lines, then vertical and horizontal lines. This week, students will have two assignments to complete; the aforementioned chapter three test, and finally the weekly homework. This week, the homework will have 30 problems. The first 10 are retrospective practice from the last two weeks. The following 20 problems will be taught between Thursday and Thursday, the majority of which will be on Tuesday and Wednesday with problems from Thursday dispersed intermittently.

Hello Everyone! This week we will round out our study of Angles & Triangles by studying the angles of Polygons on Monday and Tuesday and we will move on to the use of similar triangles in determining the areas and angle measures of polygons. Before, at the end of the week, we begin preparing for our chapter three test. This week, students will be responsible for two assignments; The sections 3.3-3.4 quiz and the Q2 Wk2 homework (Due: 11/3/2025). Within the homework, there are thirty problems. The first seventeen of which are pertinent to material taught on Monday and Tuesday. While the remaining thirteen will be covered on Wednesday and Thursday.

Hello Everyone! In all honesty, I'm having trouble accepting that we are already at the end of quarter 1 (how the time has flown.)! During this week, 8th graders will have a field trip on Wednesday to the Colorado history museum and color-games activities on Thursday. However, during class this week, we will first review our performance on the chapter 2 test and then we will open chapter 3 which extends from the material of chapter 2 into angle measurements and intersecting lines. There will be no homework to worry about this week!

Hello All! This week, we will conclude our study of chapter 2: Transformations. We will spend the first two days of the week preparing for our test, on Wednesday will take the test, and afterwards we will introduce chapter 3. Students will be responsible for two assignments this week; the Chapter 2 test and the week 8 homework (24 problems or 8 per-night if completed in equal measurements on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday nights.). Please be on the look out for conference sign ups, the link will be in your email this week!

Hello All! This week, we will be continuing our study of transformations. We will start the week by identifying the types of transformations that fall into the category of "rigid motion". Then, we will start to study dilations, which scale up and down the size of figures. We will have a quiz on the beginning sections of chapter 2 on Tuesday, this week's notes will be due on Friday, and the homework for this week will consist of thirty problems (broken out to between five and six problems per night if completed in equal segments). As we come to the end of the first quarter, we are working to bolster our students' academic fortitude and stamina to adequately prepare them for their high school experience.