Post date: Sep 24, 2017 4:30:45 PM
MSM2 Periods 1 & 2
SOLs Covered: 7.1 & 8.5 (7.1 & 8.3) Squares & Square Roots
Math Unit: 02 Exponents, Powers, & Roots
Daily Agenda: Sept. 18-22, 2017
CCPS Student Digital Resource: Squares & Square Roots
Upcoming Assessments: County MAP Pretest (Not graded; Wed. 9/27/17); 1.03 Negative Exponents, Powers, & Scientific Notation Quiz (Fri. 9/29/17)
Math 7H Period 3
SOLs Covered: A.2 Laws of Exponents
Math Unit: 03 Laws of Exponents
Daily Agenda: Sept. 18-22, 2017
CCPS Student Digital Resource: Laws of Exponents
Upcoming Assessments: County MAP Pretest (Not graded; Wed. 9/27/17); 1.03 Compare & Order Rational Numbers & Scientific Notation Quiz (Fri. 9/29/17)
After School Help Session: None at this time
Hello again! I've had a pretty jam-packed weekend and still have loads to do today, so this week's update will be pretty quick but if anyone has any questions, please feel free to send them my way. The previously planned MAP testing for the county had to be postponed due to issues with the website that popped up while the English classes were testing. We, the math teachers, implemented our backup plan and had the kids take the county pretest (also not graded), that was previously planned for this upcoming week. We've been told that the MAP testing site is up and running smoothly again, so we'll be taking it this week, but I'll have a backup plan in place again in case issues pop up again.
The MSM2 classes worked on squares and square roots all week with both perfect and imperfect squares. The week went well, but when it came time for the quiz the results were very mixed. I'd been telling the kids all week that they needed to memorize their perfect squares from 12 to 202 (1-400). Those who did so and wrote them out beforehand did awesome on the quiz. Those who didn't, struggled but will fortunately be able complete an Error Analysis.
The 7H students worked on a topic new to the curriculum this year, laws of exponents, which is actually a high school Algebra 1 level topic. The kids did great with the rules individually but struggled a little more when there were multiple rules needing to be applied within a single problem. Since it's new and thus I haven't taught it before, the quiz was open notes. There were still some struggles on the problems requiring the application of multiple rules and a fair number still need to finish their quiz. With all of this and my extremely limited experience teaching the topic, I've decided students who take advantage of the Error Analysis opportunity can earn full credit back on the questions.
Well, I'm going to wrap things up here as the laundry and prep for the week is calling. Again, please feel free to email if you have any questions. Have a great week!