Unit 0: Setting the Stage
Please note the most recent date will always be first, and I may include tentative plans for future dates. Pay close attention to the date and scroll down for previous days!
August 21-September 5
August 21-September 5
Wednesday, September 5, 2018 (Day 0j)
- Learning Goals:
- To demonstrate proficiency on skills related to fractions, decimals, and percents
- Warm-Up:
- Check your practice formative using the keys on your clipboard
- Share keys efficiently with your teammates
- Record your level of understanding on clipboard
- Get your journal and tear out pages 1 and 2 (front and back)
- Classwork:
- Formative
- Homework:
- Pages 1-2 in journal (you may tear this out)
- Show your parents how to look for missing assignments and other information on StudentVUE
- WRAP 1.2 (due Friday)
- Important Dates:
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 (Day 0i)
- Learning Goals:
- To review skills related to fractions, decimals, and percents
- Warm-Up:
- Warm-up problems on board
- Classwork:
- What does StudentVUE look like?
- logging on
- accept agreement
- looking for missing assignments
- Go over expectations when we have a substitute teacher
- Put names on journals with sharpies
- Begin work on practice formative
- What does StudentVUE look like?
- Homework:
- Practice formative due tomorrow
- WRAP 1.2 (due Friday)
- Important Dates:
- Formative - Wednesday, September 5th
Friday, August 31, 2018 (Day 0h)
- Learning Goals:
- To review skills related to fractions, decimals, and percents
- Warm-Up:
- Check your homework (2 assignments) using the keys on your clipboard
- W.R.A.P. scoring rubric
- Share keys efficiently with your teammates
- Record on clipboard
- Check your homework (2 assignments) using the keys on your clipboard
- Classwork:
- Math rubrics - what does a 4, 3, 2, 1 mean?
- Assembly expectations
- Complete MAPs
- Online reflection
- Tic Tac Toe
- Homework:
- WRAP 1.2 (due Friday)
- Important Dates:
- Formative - Wednesday, September 5th (tentative date subject to change but won't be earlier)
Thursday, August 30, 2018 (Day 0g)
- Learning Goals:
- To convert between fractions, decimals, and percents
- Warm-Up:
- Check your homework (3 assignments) using the keys on your clipboard
- Share keys efficiently with your teammates
- Talk with your teammates about fractions and decimals
- How are they the same?
- How are they different?
- Classwork:
- Grading practices - what's the big deal with standards based grading? What does a 4, 3, 2 and 1 look like in math?
- Review how to convert between fractions and decimals - both ways!
- How about decimals and percents?
- And percents and fractions?
- Homework:
- Conversions (due tomorrow)
- WRAP 1.1 (due Friday)
- Important Dates:
- Formative - Wednesday, September 5th (tentative date subject to change but won't be earlier)
Wednesday, August 29, 2018 (Day 0f)
- Learning Goals:
- To show what we know on MAPs
- Warm-Up:
- Logon to your computer
- Complete the problems on the board in your composition book
- Classwork:
- Review division of fractions
- 10 / 2 = 10 * 1/2
- What about mixed numbers?
- MAPs
- See me if I didn't check your computer and connect your epub download with the readium app
- Review division of fractions
- Homework:
- Fraction division (assigned today, due Thursday)
- Decimal operations (assigned Tuesday, due Thursday)
- Fraction operations (assigned Monday, due Thursday)
- WRAP 1.1 (due Friday)
- Important Dates:
- Formative - Wednesday, September 5th (tentative date subject to change but won't be earlier)
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 (Day 0e)
- Learning Goals:
- To show what we know on MAPs
- Warm-Up:
- Logon to your computer
- Classwork:
- Review what we know about decimal operations
- MAPs
- Homework:
- Mixed decimal operations
- WRAP 1.1 (due Friday)
- Important Dates:
- MAPs - Tuesday and Wednesday
Monday, August 27, 2018 (Day 0d)
- Learning Goals:
- To show what we may or may not already know about integers
- To review what we already know about fractions and decimal operations
- Warm-Up:
- Logon to your computer
- Classwork:
- Download book while completing pre-test
- Pre-test - complete before lunch
- Fraction review
- Writing detailed directions
- Homework:
- Mixed fraction operations
- WRAP 1.1 (due Friday)
- Important Dates:
- MAPs - Tuesday and Wednesday
Friday, August 24, 2018 (Day 0c)
- Learning Goals:
- To get to know each other and our math classroom
- To set the stage for a year of collaboration and learning
- Warm-Up:
- Get out your odd one out and sentence starters from yesterday
- Share what you learned (or remembered) from odd one out with your team
- Classwork:
- Finish discussing odd one out
- Showing work and use of calculators
- Pre-test
- Homework:
- WRAP 1.1 (due next Friday)
- Important Dates:
- MAPs - Monday and Tuesday
Thursday, August 23, 2018 (Day 0B)
- Learning Goals:
- To get to know each other and our math classroom
- To set the stage for a year of collaboration and learning
- Warm-Up:
- Sit in the same seat as yesterday
- Classwork:
- Turn in surveys
- Introductions
- Plan for day
- Website
- Homework and planner
- What will we learn?
- Supplies + computers
- Odd One Out
- Math talk
- Sentence starters
- Homework:
- Survey and complete odd one out (including three things you learned from this activity)
- Important Dates:
- MAPs - next Monday and Tuesday
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 (Day 0A)
- Learning Goals:
- To get to know each other and our math classroom
- To set the stage for a year of collaboration and learning
- Warm-Up:
- Find your name on your desk and sit there
- Classwork:
- What will we learn?
- Introductions
- Name tags - bring to every class every day this week
- Lunchroom expectations (before lunch!)
- Organizational tools - what is in your planner? how should you use it?
- Supplies + computers
- Homework, video
- Homework:
- Survey
- Important Dates:
- MAPs - next Monday and Tuesday