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Hi 8th grade families,
My name is Nathan Kurisu and I will be your student's 8th grade math teacher this year. I have taught at Valor Middle School since 2010 and am excited to teach many of your students again this year.
Grades:
Students will receive their grades based on graph to the left. Please check and sign your student’s weekly Progress Report that will go home on Friday to keep track of their grades.
Students will have 2 graded assignments per week. Students will receive feedback and may revise their cool down one time only
Unit 1: Transformations
Students will learn about translations, rotations, and reflections on and off the coordinate plane. They should understand that rigid transformations result in images that are congruent to the original image.
Mid Unit Assessment: September 21 & 22nd
Unit Assessment: October 5th & 6th
Problem Based Curriculum:
In a problem-based curriculum, students spend most of their class time working on well-designed problems. Teachers help stuents understand these problems, ask them questions to make them think more, and guide discussions to ensure everyone gets the main math ideas. This way, students really understand math and can use it in new situations. They also work together often - talking about math, sharing ideas, explaining their thoughts, and discussing others' reasoning. This helps them get better at talking and writing about their ideas, skills they’ll need in life.
This kind of teaching might be different from how you learned math. Research now shows that students should be able to think in different ways to use math in real life and on tests. To do this, they need to understand ideas and connect them. With time, students get better and more confident at solving new probelms theyve never seen before, all on their own.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.
Mr. Kurisu
nkurisu@brightstarschools.org
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