Welcome to Jr. High Math at Liberty Bell! Below are some general resources for all math classes.
For specific information about your math class choose a tab above (7th or 8th)
Please contact me at any time if you have questions or concerns !
Keri Miles, Room 129, Liberty Bell Jr./Sr. High School
LBHS office phone: 996-2215
Email: kmiles@methow.org
Communication: All Junior High math classes will use Google Classroom for announcements and assignments. All students are connected to Google Classroom, and all parents have been invited to their child's Google classroom pages as a guardian. Parents cannot "login" to Google Classroom or see specific daily lessons on Google Classroom, but will get weekly guardian summaries that give you a snapshot of each of your child's classes.
Daily assignments are posted on Google Classroom and worked on during class. If a student misses a day of class, this is where they should look first! Assignments are due at the end of class the day they are assigned, unless otherwise noted. If a student is absent, they are due the next class period.
Curriculum: Math will be taught using a variety of materials, including the Desmos Middle School math program as well as hands-on math manipulatives and printed/paper materials.
If you have any questions about this, please contact me!
Homework: In general, there will not be daily math homework. Exceptions to this:
If a student does not make significant progress on an assignment in class, the assignment may be assigned as homework.
Occasional project work may require some time outside of class
Reviewing/studying for quizzes and tests may require some time outside of class
Standards: Math instruction is guided by the Common Core math standards, a set of nationwide guidelines which define what students should understand and be able to do in their study of mathematics at each grade level. Mathematical understanding and procedural skill are equally important, and students will consistently be challenged to apply what they know to solve real-world problems. You can learn more about the Common Core here: http://www.corestandards.org/Math/
Math Practices: This is a set of expectations that all classes will use to help students achieve as mathematicians.
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
Model with mathematics.
Use appropriate tools strategically.
Attend to precision.
Look for and make use of structure.
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.