This week students will finish up their work on solving equations and determining if the equation has one, zero or infinite solutions. There are more examples and practice to be done here.

 

We will work with word problems and create and solve equations from those word problems. 

 

Finally we will look at systems of equations and how to use graphing the slope of the line and substitution to solve them.

This week we will begin by reviewing the Distributive Property and Combining Like Terms.

 

Students will then work on learning the steps and practicing solving multi-step equations. 

This week in math, students will finish up combining like terms and using the distributive property. 

 

We will then move into finding the steps needed to solve two-step and multiple step equations.

Welcome back to Room 201! Hopefully your vacation was balanced and all added up to a positive time. We are going to begin our journey into equations and how to solve multi-step algebraic equations. 

We will begin with:

The class will begin a new warm-up. Students will use a combination of their notebooks and a white board to work on an open-ended problem.

Students will take turns putting their solution on the white board in the front.

The class will have time to ask "I wonder how and why" "How did you" "What if" "Could you" questions using respectful discussion techniques. Finally, there will be time to give compliments and thank you's for the work that led to the class discussion.

We will be holding regular classes Monday through Thursday and will be completing important assignments, projects and assessments. 

 

In math, students will be doing a final project where they combine the work they have done this quarter involving slope and functions. 

This week, students will continue to work on functions. 

Key Points

• Functions are a relation between a set of inputs and a set of outputs with the property that each input maps to exactly one output.
• Typically functions are named with a single letter such as f.
• Functions can be thought of as a machine in a box that is open on two ends. You put something into one end of the box, it somehow gets changed inside of the box, and then the result pops out the other end.
• All functions are relations, but not all relations are functions.

Hi, and welcome back! I hope you all had a good break! For our new unit, we will be focusing on Functions.

Key Points

• Functions are a relation between a set of inputs and a set of outputs with the property that each input maps to exactly one output.
• Typically functions are named with a single letter such as f.
• Functions can be thought of as a machine in a box that is open on two ends. You put something into one end of the box, it somehow gets changed inside of the box, and then the result pops out the other end.
• All functions are relations, but not all relations are functions.

This week students will finish up their unit on Slope. Students will complete their slope formula work on Wednesday, we will review on Thursday and students will take an assessment for Slope on Friday.

This week in math students will continue learning about the slope of a line and how to find it. Students have learned about rise over run. Now they will learn about the slope-intercept form which is the equation y = mx + b. Students will also learn how to find the slope when given two points on the coordinate plane.

This week, students will use what they have learned about slope to find the slope of the stairs at school. Students will use this information to draw the stairs to scale. After this project, students will learn about the slope-intercept formula and how to find the slope of a line given two points. 

 

Now that you have done the measurements you are going to draw the whole staircase to scale on a piece of graph paper. The scale for this project is: 1 unit (or small square) of the graph paper equals 3 inches.

 In addition, in the space left over, you are going to draw one set of the stairs to scale. The scale for this part is: 1 unit (or small square) of the graph paper equals 3 inches.

 For the scale models of the set of stairs and the whole staircase, please label the height and length of the stairs.

This week in math, students will complete their introduction to Algebra. We took a day to review integers last week and will continue to loop in concepts from quarter one throughout quarter two. Students will complete an assignment on academic vocabulary, graphing on the coordinate plane and combining like terms. I will then introduce students to the slope of a line and the slope-intercept formula y=mx + b.

Hi, and welcome back! I'm excited to get started with quarter 2. This quarter we will be exploring the skills involved with learning Algebra. We will start with a review of graphing on the coordinate plane. Students will then get introduced to the vocabulary needed for the study of Algebra. We will then move into proportional relationships and slope.

This week students will finish learning and practicing the exponent rules for exponents with negative powers and powers of a power. Students will have a quiz on Wednesday covering all the rules we have learned so far:

This week, students will continue learning the rules using exponents. This will include the rules for dividing exponents with the same base, the rule for an exponent with a negative power and the rule for raising an exponent's power to another power. We will do this using practice and using real world examples.