Post date: Jan 20, 2019 2:46:00 PM
MSM2 Periods 1 & 2
SOLs Covered: 7.10 & 8.15-16 Relations & Functions (with Slope & Y-Intercept)
Math Unit: 13 Relations & Functions
Daily Agenda: Jan. 15-18, 2019
Upcoming Assessments: 2.06 Cumulative Algebra Test (Finish Tues. 1/22)
Math 7H Period 4
SOLs Covered: 7.10 & 8.15-16 Relations & Functions (with Slope & Y-Intercept)
Math Unit: 13 Relations & Functions
Daily Agenda: Jan. 15-18, 2019
Upcoming Assessments: 2.06 Cumulative Algebra Test (Finish Tues. 1/22)
Greetings! I hope everyone has braced themselves for the cold temperatures that are quickly approaching. I'd hoped to get this update out on Friday, but additional review time with the kids and wrapping up grading their math notebooks for the unit while they started the test took up each block. I would have gotten it out yesterday, but I took advantage of the Science Museum of Virginia's teacher appreciation day and enjoyed the day with one of my nieces geeking out over all their great S.T.E.A.M. exhibits. Before getting into the nitty gritty of the week, I wanted to remind everyone that the second quarter (and thus the first semester) ends on Friday and that the last day I will accept missing/incomplete work and/or error analysis (a.k.a. quiz/test corrections) is Tuesday, January 22nd as I'll need time to get everything graded. Parents and guardians, please help me by encouraging the kids to take advantage of their last chance to turn work in to help improve upon their grade.
Regarding this week's work, I spent a little extra time reviewing functions in general before they took their quiz. They did well overall, but after the county released new benchmark questions, I realized we would need a bit more work on slope and y-intercept in order to be prepared for the new SOLs that have been fully implemented this year. While functions have always been a part of middle school math, we now have a little more of the "high school" concepts added into the curriculum. Slope (proportional relationships) and y-intercept (additive relationships) are split into two separate topics for the middle school standards. While reviewing for the test, I took it a bit further and included work on slope-intercept form since it quite frankly doesn't make sense to me to not take it to that final step and I feel it will set them up better for the unknown possibilities of these new standards as well as for their work next year. We moved onto a review game that lead to some heavy competition between the kids (it was rather entertaining watching how into it they got) before the kids started the test Friday. They'll get Tuesday to finish the test, which will be the last grade for this term; students who chose to spend points for a chance to complete an error analysis on it will need to get that turned in by Friday before they leave school.
That should wrap everything up but as always, feel free to email if you have any questions. I hope everyone is able to stay warm the next few days; bundle up if you have to go out!