Unit 1: Integers

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!

September 6 - September 17

Monday, September 17, 2018 (Day 1h)

  • Learning Goals:
      • To demonstrate proficiency on all operations with integers
  • Warm-Up:
      • Warm-up problems on board
  • Classwork:
      • Formative
      • Confused fractions - work with a partner in the media center
  • Homework:
      • Cumulative assessment - pages 39-41 in book, show work on lined paper
          • Enter answers in www.socrative.com, room name = Bonertz
      • WRAP 1.4 (due Thursday)
  • Important Dates:
      • Formative - Thursday, 9/20 (+ and - rational numbers)
      • Summative - Wednesday, 9/26 (all operations with integers and rational numbers)

Friday, September 14, 2018 (Day 1g)

  • Learning Goals:
      • To review all operations with integers
  • Warm-Up:
      • Correct WRAP 1.3 and order of operations practice
      • Put your homework paper on clipboard
      • Record level of understanding on clipboard (4,3,2,1)
      • Warm-up on front board
  • Classwork:
      • How do we keep rules straight?
      • Practice formative with partners
  • Homework:
      • Practice formative - if not finished in class
      • WRAP 1.4 (due next Thursday)
  • Important Dates:
      • Formative - Monday, 9/17

Thursday, September 13, 2018 (Day 1f)

  • Learning Goals:
      • To divide integers
      • To follow the order of operations while operating with integers
  • Warm-Up:
      • Get your journal
      • Put computers away
      • Put your homework paper on clipboard
      • Record level of understanding on clipboard (4,3,2,1)
      • Warm-up on front board
      • Go over problems 42, 29, 30
  • Classwork:
      • Dividng integers
      • Order of operations
      • Practice - page 22 in journal
  • Homework:
      • Mixed practice (handout)
      • WRAP 1.3 (due Friday)
  • Important Dates:
      • Formative - Monday, 9/17

Wednesday, September 12, 2018 (Day 1e)

  • Learning Goals:
      • To multiply and divide integers
  • Warm-Up:
      • Put your homework paper on clipboard
      • Record level of understanding on clipboard (4,3,2,1)
      • Online quiz - do work independently and quietly and show work on separate piece of paper
  • Classwork:
      • Multiplying integers
        • Demonstrate activities 1 and 2 on page 22 in book (15 in journal)
        • Students - Complete activity 3 on page 15 in journal. Discuss the pattern you notice.
        • Students - Complete activity 4 on page 16 in journal. Discuss the pattern.
        • Students - Complete inductive reasoning table on page 16 in journal. In the column "type of product," note whether the factors have the same sign or different signs.
        • Together - How can we easily say the "rule" for multiplying (and dividing) integers? How can we make sure not to get this mixed up with adding and subtracting integers?
  • Homework:
      • Online practice 1.4, pages 26-27, problems 6-23, 29-37, 40-42
      • WRAP 1.3 (due Friday)
  • Important Dates:

Tuesday, September 11, 2018 (Day 1d)

  • Learning Goals:
      • To add and subtract integers
  • Warm-Up:
      • Check homework using key on clipboard
      • Record level of understanding on clipboard (4,3,2,1)
      • Complete warm-up on front board
  • Classwork:
      • What about retakes?
      • Investigate online book together
      • Begin online assignment
  • Homework:
      • Online 1.3 - pages 18-19, problems 27-32, 36-40, 42
      • Get on online book at home - two different ways - one to access static book, one to access dynamic book
      • WRAP 1.3 (due Friday)
  • Important Dates:

Monday, September 10, 2018 (Day 1c)

  • Learning Goals:
      • To subtract integers
  • Warm-Up:
      • New seats
      • Finish online assignment from Friday
      • Complete warm-up on front board
  • Classwork:
      • Return formatives
          • What about retakes?
      • Subtracting integers
      • Practice
  • Homework:

      • WRAP 1.3 (due next Friday)
  • Important Dates:

Friday, September 7, 2018 (Day 1b)

  • Learning Goals:
      • To add integers
  • Warm-Up:
      • Check your WRAP using the key on the clipboard
      • Record your level of understanding on clipboard
  • Classwork:
      • Discuss online homework, record level of understanding on clipboard
      • Finish distances between houses
      • Adding integers
      • Practice
  • Homework:
      • Online assignment 1.2 (show all work on a separate piece of paper), page 12, problems 6-27
      • WRAP 1.3 (due next Friday)
  • Important Dates:

Thursday, September 6, 2018 (Day 1a)

  • Learning Goals:
      • To find the absolute value of an integer
  • Warm-Up:
      • Check your homework using the key I am going to project on the board
      • Record your level of understanding on clipboard
      • Get your journal (have one person from your team get all of them)
      • Complete the problems on the board
  • Classwork:
      • Finish notes on properties
      • Distances between houses
      • What is absolute value?
      • Completing homework online - how to and expectations
  • Homework:
      • Online 1.1 or page 6, problems 1-3, 26-29, 34-36, 4-25 (odds)
      • WRAP 1.2 (due Friday)
  • Important Dates: