Thursday 12/15

Nice work this semester, everyone!

Enjoy a much-deserved three week break. Spend some time with your family, eat great food, sleep in a bit, hang out with your friends, and recharge those batteries. I'll see you all in a few weeks!

Wednesday 12/14

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Tomorrow is our Ugly Sweater Winter Party so don't forget to bring the item you signed up for!

Tuesday 12/13

Today we started day 1 of our Final Semester Exam and tomorrow will be the last day to finish. 

You are that much closer to Winter Break! Remember we will be having our Ugly Sweater Winter Party on the last day of class (Thursday). Make sure you bring the item you signed up for!

Monday 12/12

We did a little bit of review for tomorrow's First Semester Exam in class today. Be sure to continue on your own tonight.

Looking for resources? Here's a link to the quizizz.com review (class code: 173628) we did in class today.

Please make sure you do all in your power tonight to set yourself up for success tomorrow. That includes getting a great night sleep and eating a nutritious breakfast. You need to be prepared to demonstrate your best.

Homework: Study for the Final Exam

Friday 12/9

We are now preparing for our First Semester Final!

Homework: none

Here is the schedule for next week for our class:
Monday 12/12: Continue Semester Final Review
Tuesday 12/13: Semester Final
Wednesday 12/14: Semester Final continued
Thursday 12/15: Winter break party

Have a great weekend!

Thursday 12/8

Today we worked on an activity with combining like terms and substituting values for x. 

Homework: Finish Activity 37 Worksheet

We will be finishing up some concepts and preparing for our First Semester Final!

Here is the schedule for next week for our class:
Monday 12/12: Continue Semester Final Review
Tuesday 12/13: Semester Final
Wednesday 12/14: Semester Final continued
Thursday 12/15: Winter break party

Wednesday 12/7

Today we started looking at combining like terms and equations with stories. 

Homework: none

We will be finishing up some concepts and preparing for our First Semester Final!

Here is the schedule for next week for our class:
Monday 12/12: Continue Semester Final Review
Tuesday 12/13: Semester Final
Wednesday 12/14: Semester Final continued
Thursday 12/15: Winter break party

Tuesday 12/6

Today we worked on Number Tricks with Mrs. Arteaga. We were able to prove how our tricks worked! I encourage you to challenge someone at home and see if you can predict their number!

Homework: Finish Number Tricks Worksheet

We will be finishing up some concepts and preparing for our First Semester Final!

Here is the schedule for next week for our class:
Monday 12/12: Semester Final Review
Tuesday 12/13: Semester Final
Wednesday 12/14: Semester Final continued
Thursday 12/15: Winter break party

Monday 12/5

Today we explored distributive property and factoring. 

We will be finishing up some concepts and preparing for our First Semester Final!

Here is the schedule for next week for our class:
Monday 12/12: Semester Final Review
Tuesday 12/13: Semester Final
Wednesday 12/14: Semester Final continued
Thursday 12/15: Winter break party

Homework: none

Friday 12/2

Today we completed Common Assessment #3. If you did not finish, you will have time on Monday to complete it. 

Have a FANTASTIC weekend!

Thursday 12/1

Today we played a review game on Quizizz. The quicker you answered the question, the more points you got! Great job everyone!

Tomorrow is Common Assessment #3!

Wednesday 11/30

Today we learned about Distributive Property. We explored this property using bar models. Great job everyone!

We will take Common Assessment #3 on Friday so we will be reviewing tomorrow.

Homework: Page 306 #4a-c, 5b

Tuesday 11/29

Today we explored algebraic expressions. We had to figure out how much it would cost for a graduation party and create an algebraic expression that fit our problem.

Homework: Page 298 #1a-c 

Monday 11/28

Today we worked on MATHia to get back in the swing of things! It is always tough coming back to school after a break. 

This week, we have our Common Assessment #3 so we will be preparing for that.

Welcome back everyone!!

Homework: 30 mins of MATHia

Friday 11/18

Today we watched A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving in class today. Since everyone has been working hard this semester so far, we deserved a movie day!

I hope you enjoy your Thanksgiving break with your family and friends! See you in about a week!

Thursday 11/17

Today we worked on bringing Math outdoors with a 3-Act Math lesson on Pythagorean Theorem. We banned together with Mrs. Baze's 8th grade class and were able to learn a fun, interesting 8th grade concept! 

All of the students did an awesome job participating and collaborating with their peers. I really enjoyed seeing all the effort that took place today!

Homework: none

Wednesday 11/16

Today we completed our Shopping and Percents Project. I loved everyone's flyers and stores! Great job and I hope you enjoyed the project!

Homework: none

Tuesday 11/15

Today we went shopping! We went to everyone's "store" and brought 5 items on our shopping trip. We were given the original price and discount (% off) but we had to figure out the sale price. If you did not finish, you will do this for homework and turn it in tomorrow!

Homework: Finish shopping list and answer key

Monday 11/14

Today we finished up our shopping flyer and answer key for our prices. If you did not finish in class, you must finish at home and bring your flyer and answer key tomorrow. We will be shopping tomorrow so we need to have everyone's flyers!

Homework: Shopping flyer and answer key

Thursday 11/10

Today we worked on our Shopping and Percents Project. The flyers are looking great everyone!

We also learned about Veterans Day through a short, fun video. We often do not know why we have days off and what are the meanings behind those holidays. If you would like to view the video again, it is on the left! 

Everyone have a safe, enjoyable 3 day weekend and thank a veteran!

Homework: Work on shopping flyer

Wednesday 11/9

Today we started a Shopping and Percents Project in class. Each student has to create a store flyer with 5 items that they are selling and the percent discounts. Every store is having a sale so items are 25%, 50%, 75%, etc off! We spent the class time creating our fliers and picking which items we want in our store. We will be continuing this project for the next 4 days of class. I can't wait to see everyone's store and items!

Homework: Work on shopping flyer 

Friday 11/4, Monday 11/7, Tuesday 11/8

Wow it's been a crazy 2 weeks! I was absent at math trainings so you worked on MATHia and FACEing Math for the days I was gone. Thank you for being great for the subs!

Thursday 11/3

Today we learned some more rules about find percents and rates. We solved some problems using whichever method worked best for the problem and ourselves! We have so many great tools (strategies) in our math tool box that we can use the tool that works best for the job and the one we like the most!

Homework: none

Wednesday 11/2

Today we worked in Desmos and explored percent bar models a bit further. We learned how create different bar models with different percents. It's always fun when we are able to work in Desmos! 

Homework: none

Tuesday 11/1

Today I was absent so you worked on MATHia with the sub and I received a great note about your class. Great job everyone!

Homework: Finish Monday's HW problems

Monday 10/31

Today we worked on percents and rates using bar models. We were able to find fractions of numbers by using bar models to help us. We are learning so many new great strategies to find percents!

Homework: 8 percent and rate problems

Friday 10/28

Thursday 10/27

Wednesday 10/26

Today we found percents using double number lines. It was a new, different method, but everyone did great applying it to the problems. 

Homework: Finish 4 double line problems

1. 10% of 200?
2. 25% of 160?
3. 25% of 176?
4. 55% of 90?

Tuesday 10/25

Today we reviewed integers with another Kahoot! review game. Great job everyone!

Homework: none

Monday 10/24

Today we reviewed ratios and proportions with a Kahoot!  review game. Great job everyone answering the questions as quickly and correctly as possible!

Homework: none

Friday 10/21

Today we worked on constant of proportionality with a Desmos activity. If you would like to revisit this, you can go to student.desmos.com and enter the code 6D88N.

Have a GREAT weekend everybody!!

Homework: 30 mins of MATHia

Thursday 10/20

Today we worked on finding the amount of bird feeders a set of brothers could make for a local farmers market. Also, we figured out how tall a bamboo would grow during a certain amount of days!

Great job everyone!

Homework: none

Wednesday 10/19

Today we had to figure out how many students like country music, rock music, hip-hop music, and have no music preference. Great job everyone for successfully completing the 2 tables and for working so well with your groups!

Homework: none

Tuesday 10/18

Today we learned more about unit rate with a Desmos activity. 

Homework: none

Monday 10/17

Today we finished Common Assessment #2 and worked on MATHia.

Tomorrow we will jump back into our Interactive Notebooks!

Homework: none

Friday 10/14

Today we took Common Assessment #2. We will finish up on Monday.

Have an AWESOME weekend! 

Monday 10/10

Today we worked on MATHia because a majority of our class was absent for a school event. Tomorrow we will jump into a fun activity!

Homework: 30 mins of MATHia 

Friday 10/7

Today we worked on MATHia and did the Picture Perfect Raffle. The winner won a picture frame with a Cold Stone gift card and the winner was Weitao! Congrats and I hope you enjoy your ice cream!

Homework: 30 mins of MATHia

Thursday 10/6

Today I was absent so you worked on MATHia with the sub.

Homework: 30 mins of MATHia 

Wednesday 10/5

Today we practiced ratios with a Desmos activity called Tile Pile. We had to help a customer tile the floor with the pieces they gave us. We were trying to figure out how to pile the floor with only Z tiles. If you want to try at home, here are the directions:

Go to student.desmos.com and enter the class code FSXWA

Homework: none

Tuesday 10/4

Today we finished our proportions with tables. We had to complete the missing pieces of the table just like a puzzle! We had to scale up and scale down to find the missing values.

Homework: none

Monday 10/3

Today we practiced proportions with tables. We had to complete the missing pieces of the table just like a puzzle! We had to scale up and scale down to find the missing values.

Homework: none

Friday 9/30

Today we worked on MATHia to practice ratios and proportions in a fun, interactive way!

Have a great weekend everyone!!

Homework: none

Thursday 9/30

Today we worked on rates and proportions and had to figure out the missing piece. We found how many green bowling balls we had if 2 out of the 5 total bowling balls were green. Great job everyone!

Homework: Chapter 1 page 29 #1a-j

Wednesday 9/28

Today we worked on MATHia because I was absent for this period. Tomorrow we will continue with Chapter 1 in our Interactive Notebooks. 

Homework: Finish Interactive Notebook problems

Tuesday 9/27

Today we continued with Lesson 1.1 Introduction to Ratios and Rates. We learned how to scale up and scale down proportions.


Homework: Finish Page 4 of Interactive Notebook (Complete all problems)

Monday 9/26

Today we started our Interactive Notebooks and we will use these for the remaining of the semester! 

We jumped into Lesson 1.1 and completed our "Teacher Page". We started our "My Page" will a foldable.

Homework: Finish Ratio and Rate Foldable 

Tuesday 9/20

Today we worked on the rest of our FACEing Math Worksheet in class. If you did not finish, it will be due and collected on Thursday.

Homework: FACEing Math WS

Monday 9/19

Today I was at a training so you worked on MATHia with the substitute teacher. 


Homework: 30 mins of MATHia

Friday 9/16

Today we worked on a FACEing Math worksheet! We had to complete adding and subtracting of fractions with unlike denominators problems. Once we found our answer, we had to draw or color what the problem asked. 

Homework: Have a great weekend!

Thursday 9/15

Today we worked on MATHia for part of the period and the other part we worked on Estimation 180. 

For example, we had to estimate how many strips of bacon were in this package. One person was able to get the correct answer of 18 bacon strips!

Homework: 30 mins of MATHia