7/8: Unit 5: Ratios and Rates
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November 1 - 28
November 1 - 28
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 (Day 5r)
Learning Goals:
- To demonstrate proficiency on all learning targets related to ratios and proportions
- Warm-Up :
- Which one doesn't belong?
- Use sentence starters
- Classwork:
- Finish Summative
- Homework:
- Cumulative assessment - pages 209-211
- WRAP 3.1 - due 11/30
- Important Dates:
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 (Day 5q)
Learning Goals:
- To demonstrate proficiency on all learning targets related to ratios and proportions
- Warm-Up :
- Go over practice summative - key is here
- Classwork:
- Summative
- Homework:
- WRAP 3.1 - due 11/30
- Important Dates:
Monday, November 26, 2018 (Day 5p)
Learning Goals:
- To identify direct variation and connect it to our work with proportional relationships
- Warm-Up :
- New seats
- New jobs
- Problem on board
- Complete online practice 5.6
- Complete email to me about your StudentVUE and thoughts about courses
- See me if you finish both of these things
- Classwork:
- Practice summative
- Homework:
- Finish practice summative and check it with the key that is here
- WRAP 3.1 will be due 11/30
- Important Dates:
- Summative - Tuesday, 11/27
Tuesday, November 20, 2018 (Day 5n)
Learning Goals:
- To identify direct variation and connect it to our work with proportional relationships
- Warm-Up :
- Fill out clipboard with understanding about last night's homework, put your work on the clipboard
- Review of course progression
- Grade reflection - copy these questions into an email, answer each question, and send the email to me at cbonertz@psdschools.org
- Go to studentvue and look at your grades
- Do you understand them?
- Do you have any questions?
- Have I made any mistakes?
- Have you checked the no-name basket for any of your work?
- Do you understand the options for math next year?
- What are your initial thoughts about which math course may be best for you?
- Classwork:
- Direct variation
- How can we find k if we know x and y?
- Practice - online 5.6, page 202, problems
- Direct variation
- Homework:
- Enjoy your holiday break with your family and friends!
- No WRAP this week because of Thanksgiving
- WRAP 3.1 will be due 11/30
- Important Dates:
- Summative - Tuesday, 11/27
Monday, November 19, 2018 (Day 5m)
Learning Goals:
- To identify direct variation and connect it to our work with proportional relationships
- Warm-Up :
- Description of dog - which do you prefer? Why? What is the point?
- Return formatives
- Return WRAP tests after lunch
- Classwork:
- Direct variation
- How can we identify from words, tables, graphs, and equations?
- How is this like proportionality?
- Direct variation
- Homework:
- Online 5.6, page 202, problems 4-7, 10-12, 18
- No WRAP this week because of Thanksgiving
- WRAP 3.1 will be due 11/30
- Important Dates:
- Summative - Tuesday, 11/27
Friday, November 16, 2018 (Day 5l)
Learning Goals:
- To
- Warm-Up :
- Get a privacy folder and a whiteboard and make sure you have your dry erase marker
- Use key on clipboard to check your homework, record on clipboard
- Use key on clipboard to check your WRAP, record on top of paper and on clipboard
- Classwork:
- Comparing unit rates
- WRAP summative
- Puzzles --> play --> start with puzzle 1, they get more and more difficult once you get the hang of it, after the first couple of puzzles, write and solve equations on your whiteboard
- Homework:
- None
- No WRAP this week because of Thanksgiving
- WRAP 3.1 will be due 11/30
- Important Dates:
- Summative - Tuesday, 11/27
Thursday, November 15, 2018 (Day 5k)
Learning Goals:
- To find a unit rate from a table and a graph
- Warm-Up :
- Record your level of understanding for the Clever assignment
- Questions on the Clever assignment
- Begin working on the proportional graphs worksheet that is on your clipboard
- What is the slope for each of the graphs?
- Could we write an equation to represent the relationship between the variables?
- Classwork:
- Finding the unit rate using a graph, table, and equation
- Writing an equation for a proportional relationship
- Homework:
- Proportional relationships, tables, and equations
- WRAP #2.6 (due Friday)
- Important Dates:
- WRAP summative - Friday, 11/16
- Summative - Tuesday, 11/27
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 (Day 5j)
Learning Goals:
- To find a unit rate from a table and a graph
- Warm-Up :
- Please put practice formatives on your clipboard and record your level of understanding for them under the Tuesday column
- Record your level of understanding for the Picture Perfect activity under Wednesday
- Discuss picture perfect activity
- student.desmos.com --> code = 5AWC95
- Finish formatives?
- Classwork:
- Graphs of proportional relationships - what did we learn from sugar, sugar?
- Finding the unit rate using a graph
- Page 94 in journal - what is the unit rate and what does it mean?
- Unit rate = slope
- Homework:
- Online 5.5 - pages 196-197, problems 4-9, 12, 16
- You will not need a separate piece of paper to show your work
- WRAP #2.6 (due Friday)
- Online 5.5 - pages 196-197, problems 4-9, 12, 16
- Important Dates:
- WRAP summative - Friday, 11/16
- Summative - Tuesday, 11/27
Tuesday, November 13, 2018 (Day 5i)
Learning Goals:
- To compute and compare unit rates
- To identify and solve proportional relationships
- Warm-Up :
- Please get privacy folders.
- Any questions on practice formative?
- Classwork:
- Formative -
- student.desmos.com --> D6XVQ3 . This should be an independent and quiet activity while classmates are finishing the formative. Please be productive and polite.
- Homework:
- Finish desmos activity
- WRAP #2.6 (due Friday)
- Important Dates:
- WRAP summative - Friday, 11/16
- Summative - Tuesday, 11/27
Monday, November 12, 2018 (Day 5h)
Learning Goals:
- To compute and compare unit rates
- To identify and solve proportional relationships
- Warm-Up :
- Conversions practice - circled problems only
- Classwork:
- Add problems 16 and 17 to your practice formative
- Practice formative
- Homework:
- Complete practice formative and check it using the key here
- WRAP #2.6 (due Friday)
- Important Dates:
- Formative - Tuesday, 11/13
- WRAP summative - Friday, 11/16
- Summative - Tuesday, 11/27
Friday, November 9, 2018 (Day 5g)
Learning Goals:
- To use proportions to convert measurements
- Warm-Up :
- Use the key on your clipboard to check your WRAP. Put your score on your paper and on the clipboard, and put your paper on the clipboard.
- Fill out your clipboard with your understanding of last night's homework. Put your work on the clipboard.
- Classwork:
- Desmos - B26MCN
- Converting measurements using proportions
- Converting rates using dimensional analysis
- Practice
- Homework:
- None
- WRAP #2.6 (due Friday)
- Important Dates:
- Formative - Tuesday, 11/13
- WRAP summative - next Friday, 11/16
Thursday, November 8, 2018 (Day 5f)
Learning Goals:
- To use proportions in problem solving and unit conversions
- Warm-Up :
- Get your journals
- Use the key on your clipboard to check last night's homework
- Fill out your clipboard with your understanding of last night's homework
- Complete page 98 in your journal
- Classwork:
- Using proportions in rate conversions
- 3 methods - review them
- Practice - page 102 (top part)
- How do we set up a proportion for a rate conversion?
- Practice - page 102 (bottom part)
- Using proportions in rate conversions
- Homework:
- Online 5.4, pages 190-191, problems 1-27 (odd)
- WRAP #2.5 (due Friday)
- Important Dates:
- Formative
Wednesday, November 7, 2018 (Day 5e)
Learning Goals:
- To determine if a relationship is proportional
- To find a unit rate from a table and a graph
- Warm-Up :
- Fill out your clipboard with your understanding of last night's homework
- We will go over the homework together before you put it on your board
- Get your journal
- Begin the handout on proportional relationships or complete the retake of LT6
- Classwork:
- How can we tell if a relationship shown in a table is proportional?
- Graphs of proportional relationships
- Finding the unit rate using a graph
- Pages 93-94 in journal
- Solving proportions
- 3 methods
- Homework:
- Solving proportions practice
- WRAP #2.5 (due Friday)
- Important Dates:
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 (Day 5d)
Learning Goals:
- To compute unit rates and use them in problem solving
- To find a unit rate from a table and a graph
- Warm-Up :
- Fill out your clipboard with your understanding of last night's homework and put your work on the clipboard
- Get your journal
- Complete the warm-up on the board
- Classwork:
- Complex fractions practice
- Cooking with the Whole Cup
- Ratios of Fractions and their Unit Rates
- Finding unit rates from tables and graphs
- Homework:
- Finish unit rate packet we started in class
- WRAP #2.5 (due Friday)
- Important Dates:
Monday, November 5, 2018 (Day 5c)
Learning Goals:
- To understand proportions and use them to solve problems
- Warm-Up :
- Clever assignment from Friday - unit rates with complex fractions
- Classwork:
- What is a proportion?
- How can you determine if two quantities are in a proportional relationship?
- Scale factor
- Cross products
- Comparing rates using proportions
- Homework:
- 5.2 online or pages 174-175, problems 3-27 (odd)
- WRAP #2.5 (due Friday)
- Important Dates:
Friday, November 2, 2018 (Day 5b)
Learning Goals:
- To understand rates and use them to solve problems
- Warm-Up :
- Return summatives
- Homework - correct and record on clipboard
- WRAP - correct and record on clipboard
- problems 8, 12, 20
- Write score on WRAP
- Estimate time it takes you to complete a WRAP and write the minutes on top of your wrap
- Finish Clever assignment from yesterday (when done, write to your pen pal, read, review your notes from yesterday)
- Classwork:
- What did you learn yesterday?
- Fractions in unit rates
- Using mini-rate tables
- In-class Clever assignment
- Homework:
- None
- WRAP #2.5 (due Friday)
- Important Dates:
Thursday, November 1, 2018 (Day 5a)
Learning Goals:
- To understand rates and use them to solve problems
- Warm-Up :
- Please get your red, soft-sided journals
- Please get headphones if you don't have your own. If you use the school's headphones, please be sure to put them back neatly when you are done.
- Complete fair game review on pages 83 and 84
- Classwork:
- Complete activity 1 on page 84 in your journal
- Watch this video about rates
- Write definitions for the following words in your composition notebook. You may need to re-watch part of the video.
- Ratio
- Rate
- Write definitions for the following words in your composition notebook. You may need to re-watch part of the video.
- Complete these practice problems on Khan Academy
- Watch this video about unit rates
- Watch this video about unit prices
- Complete these practice problems about rates
- Complete activity 3 on page 86 in your journal
- In your composition notebook, write a list of at least 3 things you learned or got better at today. Be prepared to share in class tomorrow.
- Complete the 5.1 Clever assignment - this is a class assignment that should be completed in class. Show your work neatly on a separate piece of paper.
- If you used the school's headphones, please wind the cord up neatly and put them back in the bucket.
- Homework:
- Chapter 4 cumulative assessment - pages 157-159. This assignment can also be found in the online textbook through Clever or readium. It is NOT a clever assignment, and the answers should be shown with your work on a separate piece of paper.
- WRAP #2.4 (due Friday)
- Important Dates: