Welcome. I hope this website proves useful to you and helps us have a wonderful year together.
This year we will be studying:
Arithmetic Operations Including Dividing by a Fraction
Ratios & Unit Rates
Percents
Rational Numbers
Expressions
Equations
Geometry (Area, Surface Area & Volume Problems)
Statistics
For the beginning of the year students need to have pencils, erasers, notebook/binder and their Chromebook.
Students should come to class each day with:
Folder
Sharpened Pencils and erasers
Agenda book
Homework
Envisions work a text
Chromebook
Earbuds
Notebook/Binder (optional)
Homework will be assigned regularly Monday through Thursday. Homework will occasionally be assigned on Fridays as well.
Homework will usually be assigned from the Envisions work-a-text. Students will always be given time to copy their homework in class but I will also try to have the homework on the classroom calendar that can be found on the white team and this website.
Late homework will usually not be accepted as we go over the homework in class, so it is imperative that students complete their assignments on the day it is assigned.
All grades can be accessed through the parent portal. Grades will not be posted until all classes are able to have the assignment returned to them. Please wait for the assignment to be returned before asking about a grade seen on the portal.
The final quarter grade is comprised of
80% tests, quizzes, projects and graded classwork
20% homework
If you receive a weekly Google Classroom report please remember that a vast majority of our math work is not found in classroom but in using our work-a-text.
Our first quiz on unit 5 covering the first 2 lessons of the unit will be on Tuesday 3/17.
Our end of the unit assessment for unit 4 was on 3/6. We will be starting Unit 5 ratios the following Monday. This unit is in volume 2 of our workbook. Volume 1 should be kept in their locker or at home until the end of the year.
We will have a spiral super quiz on Thursday February 12. I was hoping that it could be our end of unit 4 test but as we will not be finished by then it will cover the chapter up to wherever we are at that point. The quiz will cover through lesson 4-7 inequalities. The students can use the review at the end of the unit and castle learning for more review work.
Our first quiz on Unit 4 lessons 1-4 (also our first quiz for the third quarter) will be held on Wednesday 1/28. However, if as seems very likely we have a snow day on Monday the quiz will be pushed back until Thursday.
We will have a short spiral quiz on Friday 1/9 covering lesson 3-6. Our end of unit 3 test will occur on Wednesday January 14. Castle Learning review work is available as of Thursday 1/8. Additional practice workbooks and review materials will be given out Monday and Tuesday.
I am hoping to keep to my original plan of having a spiral quiz on Thursday December 18 covering sections 3-4 and 3-5. I will see how far we have gotten at the end of Tuesday and see if we can stick the schedule. Otherwise we would have to do the quiz on Monday or have a longer quiz several days after we get back from vacation.
Our second spiral quiz will be on Thursday 12/11. It will cover 3-2 word problems and 3-3.
Our first quiz for Unit 3 will be on Wednesday 12/3. It will cover lessons 3-1 and either all or part of lesson 3-2 depending on how quickly we progress.
The spiral quiz on lesson 2-6 is onThursday 11/20.
The almost end of Unit 2 test will be held on Friday 11/14. As the students seemed to struggle with the last quiz on Friday seventh I decided to review some of the material again. As Friday is the last day of the quarter I decided to give the test so students will have a second test grade to try to improve their average but that the test will only cover the first five lessons of the chapter. We will have a short quiz on lesson 2-6 next week. Hopefully this change will help the students do their best on the examination.
Our first spiral quiz for unit 2 will be on Thursday 10/30. It will cover through lesson 2-3. It has to be Thursday as we have a guidance presentation during math on Wednesday so I can not give a quiz on that day.
Our end of unit 1 test will now be held on Friday 10/17. I was just informed about an assembly and I do not want to give a full period assessment on a dauy with shortened periods. Review materials include Castle learning, a review workbook, classroom assignments and handouts. These will start to be made available several days before the test.
Our second spiral quiz will be held on Thursday 10/9. It will cover through lesson 1-6. Multiplying and dividing fractions.
Our first quiz will be on Friday 9/19. It will cover lessons 1-1 and 1-2.
Extra help is given most days at the beginning of sixth period. I am available most days but if a student asks me beforehand we can make sure that extra help is available.