Wednesday, February 22nd

Sixth Grade

We began discussing ratios today and the class worked in pairs to find various ratios using class data. There is no homework.

Seventh Grade

Math - The class worked in pairs to play a Polygon Classification game. We will take some of the information we learned today to play the game for an assignment tomorrow. There is no homework in math.

Geography - We took notes over Chapter 13, Section 3 and part of Section 4. I also assigned a worksheet on finding information in a table.

Eighth Grade

Pre-Algebra - Finding perfect squares and square roots and factoring the difference of two perfect squares. If you have questions, please send me an email!

Algebra I - Multiplying and Dividing Rational Expressions Quiz. The class will finish the quiz tomorrow. If you are still having trouble, go over some problems tonight!

See you tomorrow,

Mrs. Swickey

Thursday, February 16th

Sixth Grade

Percent Word Problems. You are finding the percent of a number. Then, draw a picture or box illustrating the problem. If you have 60%, then you could draw a box and divide it into two parts. One part will be a little bigger than half and the other will be smaller. Then write inside the box the information from the problem. Try to be creative!

Seventh Grade

Math - Assignment #10 - Transversals.

Geography - We took notes over Chapter 13 Section 3 today. We will continue the section tomorrow. There is a country quiz on Monday!

Eighth Grade

Pre-Algebra: Assignment #16. Multiplying Polynomials.

Algebra I: Assignment #15. Multiplying rational expressions.

If you have questions, send me an email and let me know!

See you tomorrow.

Mrs. Swickey

Also, most of the class is retaking the conversions test tomorrow. Here are the rest of the test questions that we weren't able to review today:

Monday, February 13th

Sixth Grade

There is a test tomorrow over decimal, fraction, percent conversions as well as repeating and terminating decimals. Please go over your notes from class today and go through your conversions book!

Seventh Grade

Math - Tranversals and Parallel Lines worksheet 9-4. Only do the front side. Most students finished in class.

Geography - Chapter 13, Section 1 Guided Reading Worksheet.

Eighth Grade

Pre-Algebra: Classifying Polynomials by terms and by degree. Use your notes to classify each polynomial.

Algebra I: Rational Expressions. Simplify each expression by first factoring the numerator and denominator and then canceling any common factors (including common binomials).

Send me an email if you get stuck!

See you tomorrow,

Mrs. Swickey

Monday, February 6th

Sixth Grade

Today, the class took a 100 square grid and filled it in with different colors of tissue paper. The assignment is to write down each color used and determine the percent, fraction, and decimal for each of them. So if you used 15 yellow pieces, you would have 15%, 3/20, and 0.15 as your equivalents. Then, fill in the conversion table on the bottom with the correct equivalents. For the last column, use the first example as a guide to find the $ equivalent. (Hint: Look at the # of squares and the $ amount.)

Seventh Grade

Math - We discussed our Capture The Flag activity that we will do tomorrow and the students practiced using the giant protractors to "sight" the flags. Then, the class took notes on Angle Pairs. There is no homework.

Geography - The class took a country quiz today and then we began discussing Chapter 12, Section 3 - over Panama. The students were quite interested in how it was built and why.

Eighth Grade

Pre-Algebra: Many students struggled with how to solve equations with parentheses so we spent the class time today going over those again. There is no new homework, but everyone should have HW #10 done for tomorrow.

Algebra I: Dividing polynomials when there is a leading coefficient of x squared.

There are some excellent examples on how to do polynomial division on Purple Math.

See you tomorrow!

Mrs. Swickey