Post date: Mar 20, 2016 9:04:42 PM
Math 7H Period 1/2
SOLs Covered: 8.7 Surface Area & Volume
Math Unit: #20 Surface Area & Volume
CCPS Student Digital Resource: Surface Area & Volume
Upcoming Assessments: 3.11 3-D Models & SA & Vol Test (Mon. 3/21); 3.12 CCPS Quiz #7 (Tues. 3/22); 3.13 Data Analysis CW Quiz #1 (Fri. 3/25)
MSM2 Period 5/6 & 9/10
SOLs Covered: 7.12 & 8.14 Relations & Functions; 8.16 Graphing Functions
Math Unit: #21 Relations & Functions
CCPS Student Digital Resource: Relations & Functions; Graphing Linear Functions
Upcoming Assessments: 4.01 Rel. & Func. CW Quiz (Wed. 3/23); 4.02 Rel. & Func. Test (Thurs. 3/24 & Fri. 3/25)
Greetings on this first chilly day of spring! I'm going to get straight to the nitty gritty of the week and keep this short so I can return to my nest of blankets on the sofa.
This week the 7H students continued working on their surface area and volume unit. We added in work with pyramids and cones, which gave the kids a little more trouble. The work for pyramids and cones in general is not any more difficult than working with prisms and cylinders, however I challenged the students by including the necessity of having to find missing dimensions on both shapes. To do this students must use the Pythagorean theorem, which we covered at the beginning of the term. This doesn't show up on any of our assessments, but I wanted to push the students to have to truly work as well as prepare them for the possibility should it show up on the SOLs. It's also important of the students to remember that a pyramid/cone is one third the volume of a prism/cylinder with the same dimensions (height and base area). The group took the quiz for the unit on Friday, though I changed it to a "classwork" quiz to help further prepare them for the test and county quiz as some were still struggling a bit with pyramids/cones.
The MSM2 students began working with relations and functions. While the kids were a little leery at first because most are not terribly fond of algebra, however the soon found that the work is much easier as they are mostly just substituting values into a function. We've spent a good bit of time focusing on vocabulary and solving functions for given domain values, thus finding the range. Students have matched functions based on their graph, equation, table, etc. We've only just started discussing how to find the function's equation from a graph and/or table, which can be a little more difficult, but it's something we'll continue this upcoming week.
That's about it for this summary. We've just got this week before we all get a little break from school. I know we are all excited, but it's important that we still focus and work hard throughout the week. As always, if you have questions, please feel free to contact me at anytime.