Post date: Jan 31, 2020 9:04:21 PM
MSM2 Periods 1 & 4
SOLs Covered: 7.5 & 8.4 Ratios, Rates, & Proportions (Review of Similar Figures)
Math Unit: 15 Ratios, Rates, & Proportions
Daily Agenda: Jan. 27-31, 2020
Upcoming Assessments: 3.01 Ratios, Rates, & Proportions Quiz (Mon. 2/3)
Math 7H Period 3
SOLs Covered: 7.5 & 8.4 Ratios, Rates, & Proportions (Review of Similar Figures)
Math Unit: 17 Ratios, Rates, & Proportions
Daily Agenda: Jan. 27-31, 2020
Upcoming Assessments: 3.01 Ratios, Rates, & Proportions Quiz (Mon. 2/3)
Happy end-of-January! I don't know about you, but it feels like this month has gone on forever, so I'm super glad to be moving along (or at least feel like it). I've just wrapped up all the grades (even the stack of quiz corrections I hadn't been able to get to previously), so if you hop onto ParentVUE/StudentVUE, you'll find the grades that have been "sent" for report cards. All of the grades for the unit we've been working on this week as well as the ALEKS work for this week will go onto the third quarter.
Regarding this week's work, we launched into working on ratios, rates, and proportions. This is overall a review topic for students, though we make a few new connections with our previous unit (functions/relations) in this grade level. I also include a little work on similar figures during this unit since similar figures have proportional corresponding sides. We didn't do too much with similar figures at this time (just enough to get the connection to proportions), but we'll touch back on the topic when we get to some of our geometry work later in the third quarter (specifically with dilations during our geometric transformations unit).
This week has been a little crazy with the extra energy of spirit week and the boys' basketball tournament (THEY WON! GO RAVENS!!!), which led to a few disruptions to classes along with students being a little extra distracted. For this reason, I decided to push the quiz I'd planned for today until Monday. I'm still a little concerned with the students' focus over the course of the week and generally that would lead me to push the quiz a little further. However, I don't want to risk running out of time later in the school year in case we do end up with a few snow days and I was thus thinking of making the quiz open-notes. Instead I've decided to use the quiz as an extra teaching opportunity... and actually "take" the quiz with the kids, projecting it all to the board. We'll have a lot discussion about the questions, but I'll also use this as an opportunity to demonstrate all of the quiz-taking strategies I've been telling them about all year. This will also serve as an example to students of how well they are paying attention; I've done this before (at least once a year) and there hasn't been a single time when there haven't been students who still don't end up getting a 100%, even though every answer was given to them. If there are any kids who desperately want to take the quiz all on their own, I'll make arrangements for that, but I doubt there will be many takers for that option.
Well, I still have to make copies of the quiz for the kids before I can head out of here, so I'm going to close things out here. As always, please let me know if you have any questions. Hope you all have an amazing weekend!!!