Daily math work / homework

In this section, I will post the work that we did in class along with the homework. The most recent week will be on the top. Kids can look here if they are absent and stay caught up with the class. There is a link to the textbook in Schoology if they forget to bring their binder home. Note: if a whole module is all that is listed, you can assume that we did the lesson and "On Your Own" in class. The last two pages of module (More Practice and Test Prep) are the homework.

Week of December 8

Monday - Lessons 9.1 and 9.2 (On your own in ED - finish on paper) Homework is pgs 327, 335, 336

Tuesday - Lessons 9.3 (On your own in ED), 2 BrainPops, Homework is pages 341, 342 and 359, Breakout EDU when done!

Wednesday - Lesson 9.4

Thursday - Lesson 9.5 and review

Friday - Module 9 test, finish IXL if not done!!

Week of December 1

Monday - Lessons 8.1 (On your own in ED - finish on paper) Homework is pg. 301-302

Tuesday - Lessons 8.2 (On your own in ED - finish on paper) Homework is pg. 307-308

Wednesday - Lesson 8.3 (On your own in ED - finish on paper) Homework is pg. 315-316

Thursday - Review, Mid-year IXL

Friday - Module 8 test; Start Module 9 (Are You Ready)

Week of November 17

Monday - Lessons 7.1 and 7.2; On your own in ED (lessons 1 and 2 - finish on paper) Homework is pg. 253(odd) and pg. 261.

Tuesday - Lessons 7.3 and 7.4; On your own in ED (lessons 3 and 4 - finish on paper) Homework is pg. 269 and pg. 275.

Wednesday - Lesson 7.5; On your own in ED (lesson 5 - finish on paper if needed) Homework is pg 283-284.

Thursday - Lesson 7.6 and Review (Homework is pages 289-292)

Friday - Module 7 test (No homework!! Have a relaxing fall break!!)

Week of November 10

Monday - no school

Tuesday - no school

Wednesday - Pop quiz, three "on your own" lessons from Module 6 on ED (no homework)

Thursday - finish Module 6 on ED and reteach pages - Here are the answers to check your work!

Friday - Module 6 retest; work on the first two pages of module 7 (Are You Ready)

Week of November 3

Monday - Lesson 5.7; HW 186, 193-194

Tuesday - Finish lesson 5.7 and review; no homework

Wednesday - test

Thursday - finish test / corrections

Friday - finish corrections / Work on Module 6 on ED (we will do 3, 4 and 5 before correcting the test)

Week of October 27

Monday - Lesson 5.3; homework includes pages 163-164. (We did pages 157-160 in class and 161-162 on the computer in class.)

Tuesday - Lesson 5.4; homework includes pages 171-172. (We did pages 165-170 in class.)

Wednesday - Lesson 5.5; homework includes pages 177-178. (We did pages 173-176 in class.)

Thursday - Lesson 5.6; we will finish the class part tomorrow in class. Page 185 is homework.

Friday - Finish Lesson 5.6 including page 186 - no homework for Halloween!

Week of October 20

Monday - Review test and finish test corrections for homework (To get credit for you test corrections, you must use a separate piece of paper, write the number of the problem that you got wrong, explain the mistake that you made and show your work to get the correct answer. You can't do this in your head or write on the original test and get credit!)

Tuesday - Practice on computer if it's working, finish first two pages of unit 7

Wednesday - Retest Module 6

Thursday - Lesson 5.1: homework includes pages 139-140 and 147-148. (We did 141-144 in class and pages 145-146 on the computer in class.)

Friday - Lesson 5.2 homework includes pages 155-156. (We did 149-152 in class and pages 153-154 on the computer in class.)

Week of October 13

Monday - No school

Tuesday - No school

Wednesday - Lesson 6.5 through page 234

Thursday - Lesson 6.6 (pages 235, 240-243, 245-246)

Friday - Module 6 test

Week of October 6

Monday - Lesson 6.1 through page 206.

Tuesday - Lesson 6.2 through 213.

Wednesday - Lesson 6.3 finish 214-220

Thursday - Lesson 6.4 finish 221-227

Friday - check understanding (2); Lesson 6.5 through page 231

Week of September 29

Monday - Lesson 4.1 and 4.2; Finish through page 126.

Tuesday - Lesson 4.3; finish through page 136.

Wednesday - Review, IXL

Thursday - Test, Are you Ready? IXL

Friday - Make up tests.

Week of September 22

Monday - Lesson 3.4, finish through page 100

Tuesday - Start Lesson 3.5 (finish all pages through 104, so homework is 84, 101, 102); Check Understanding on the computer

Wednesday - Review, 109-110, homework: pgs 105-107

Thursday - Math test, Are You Ready?

Friday - Finish test, test corrections, IXL arena

Week of September 15

Monday - Test corrections, Additional Practice worksheet, pgs. 77-78

Tuesday - Lesson 3.1, finish through pg. 83

Wednesday - Lesson 3.2; get packet for lesson 2 back so you can study!! Finish through page 90

Thursday - Lesson 3.3; finish through pg 96 (by Monday's class)

Friday - Retest for Module 2 if you scored 80% or less, iXL

Week of September 8

Monday - Cal-Wood

Tuesday - Cal-Wood

Wednesday - Cal-Wood

Thursday - Lesson 2.4 - finish through pg 76.

Friday - Module test, then Are you ready? and 10 questions from the Arena in IXL

Week of September 1

Monday - no school

Tuesday - no school

Wednesday - Lesson 2.2 - finish through page 59 but skip problem 12.

Thursday - Lesson 2.3 - finish through pg 66.

Friday - iXL Arena; Lesson 2.4 - we will finish this next week. The Module test will be on Friday.

Week of August 25

Monday - Lesson 5: pages 35-38 in class; finish 33-34 for homework

Tuesday - review Monday's work, complete pages 39-42 for homework

Wednesday - review / questions / test / Are you ready page

Thursday - Lesson 2.1; Finish through pg. 51 for homework

Friday - Review homework, practice cross multiplication, test corrections; pg 52 for homework

Week of August 18

Monday - Set up binder; Lesson 1.1 pages 1-10

Tuesday - Lesson 1.2; (pgs 13-20): complete 11-12 and 19-20 for homework.

Wednesday - review homework, Lesson 1.3; pgs 21-26

Thursday - review homework, Lesson 1.4 through pg 30

Friday - review pg 30, finish Lesson 1.4, practice with LCM and GCF (Prime Factorization)

Notes on Math Class Placement

The following information applies to the students who stay in BVSD and do not go to Summit, which has its own pathway. I will discuss this more at Back-to-School night.

The Advanced 1 math class is geared towards students who learn math concepts quickly without a lot of repetition. Students in this class typically have very solid number sense, have mastered their math facts, have excellent executive function skills, are strong readers and generally enjoy solving math problems. They typically do not resist doing math homework and are not too busy after school to make math homework a priority. For the record, students are expected to score 80% or higher on the Advanced 1 module assessments.

The students who complete this class will be put into Advanced 2 in middle school, so they will start Algebra (a 9th grade class) as seventh graders. This is the third year that this curriculum has been taught in BVSD, so we have now worked out a lot of the kinks! The BVSD math pathway says that students can opt to take seventh grade math in sixth grade, but in reality, the Southern Hills counselors place all of my students into Advanced 2 to start sixth grade. This puts extra pressure on our team to put kids into the right class! Prior to using this curriculum, I only had around a dozen students a year who compacted two years of math prior to high school and some students ended up accelerating too quickly and losing their passion for math.

I plan to start the year with students who successfully completed 4/5 compacted math or scored "exceeds expectations" on the CMAS. All students will be given a paper math test on August 14 as well as an iXL assessment, allowing students who are new to Bear Creek the opportunity to accelerate. The initial placement of all students is provisional for the first three modules in my class. Students may be moved to Mrs. Waldrip's class throughout this window and I use their module test scores, class participation, homework completion, self advocacy along with the initial body of evidence to inform this decision.

The top half (or more) of Mrs. Waldrip's students will take Advanced 1 in 6th grade (or advanced pre-algebra at Summit) and will compact one year of math by high school. These students will all have the option of taking Calculus in high school, if that is important to your family! On the fifth grade CMAS, Mrs. Waldrip's students often outperform the lower third of my Advanced 1 students and they gain a more solid grounding with number sense and basic math skills (add, subtract, multiply, divide fractions and decimals with unfriendly numbers). In middle school, the Advanced 1 class does not move at such a fast pace since the class period is shorter by 20 minutes and it is spread out through the end of May.

Please note that the students in Mrs. Waldrip's class will have the opportunity to do math enrichment activities on a regular basis, whereas my class is more of a grind. Please reach out if you feel that the fifth grade class would be a better fit for your student.

Introduction and Welcome!

Students will switch for math for the first time on Wednesday, August 18. I plan to talk about math in more detail at Back-to-School night.

I do not test the speed of math fact recall, but I do know that students who are not automatic with their multiplication facts need to hold more information in their working memory and sometimes get bogged down in the middle of complex math problems. This is not to say that these students are not strong mathematical thinkers, they just need to work harder to find the correct solution. For this reason, I encourage my students to practice their math facts if they have not yet mastered them. Because calculators are not permitted on CMAS, we do not use calculators until later in the year. However, we will finish the entire book (18 modules) before CMAS and spend the last month of math doing project based learning activities.

I have been breaking the math book into smaller chunks so that kids have less weight to ferry between home and school. At the end of each module, I will staple your child's "packet" to their math test and send it home in Friday folders. We have a test (on paper) for every module but no unit tests. If a student scores below 80%, I have them complete a second test after they complete test corrections and ensure that they understand whatever they missed. We will also have access to iXL, so that students can review, practice and accelerate independently.

Our math class is 65 minutes long to support the students who need extra help and to allow most of the "Advanced 1" students to start their "homework" in school. Homework should never take more than 45 minutes - if it does, please stop! If the homework is regularly taking more than 45 minutes and students are needing a lot of support from parents, please have your child talk to Mrs. Ellis. Homework should be a time to practice skills we learned in class. Students are not permitted to say "I don't get it" in my math class - they need to practice asking specific questions that helps them articulate where their understanding is lacking. When students have questions, I prefer that they bring them to school the next day. This helps me to better track my class' learning and the areas that need review. Thanks!