Thursday, March 29th

Sixth Grade

Today's homework is assignment number 3. Finding a discount. The examples are on the page. Just follow the directions and you will do just fine!

Seventh Grade

Math - Assignment #1. Probability, Chance, and Odds. If you have any trouble with something specific, please email me. I am more than happy to help!

Geography - Assignment #1. Western Europe map. Color the countries with crayon or colored pencil and label each country. Remember not to write the name in the country if it is too small, but to put a number and write it at the side or on the back.

Eighth Grade

Pre-Algebra: Assignment #4. Compound inequalities. The examples are on the homework.

Algebra I: Regular binomials with radicals. The examples or on the page! Using the box will probably be easier. Email me with any questions!

See you tomorrow!

Mrs. Swickey

Tuesday, March 27th

Sixth Grade

Homework #2 - Today is a continuation of yesterday. Remember, if you are given the price per pound and the number of pounds to buy, you will just multiply the price by the number of pounds to find out how much it's going to cost. If you are given the price per pound and the number of kilograms to buy though, you first need to change the number of kilograms to number of pounds. Since each kilogram has 2.2 pounds, you would just multiply the number of kilograms times 2.2. For example, if you had 4 kilograms of broccoli and you wanted to know how many pounds that weighed, you would multiply 4 times 2.2 and get 8.8 pounds. Then, if you know the price per pound, you'd multiply 8.8 times that to get your answer. Remember to move your decimal the correct number of places and round to the nearest cent, like we did yesterday!

Seventh Grade

Math - Finish the Deep Sea Challenger questions if you didn't finish in class.

Geography - Chapter 15, Section 3. Read the section and write 10 things down that you think should be on the test from this section.

Eighth Grade

Pre-Algebra: Homework #2 - Solving inequalities. Here are a few examples. Remember, if you have to multiply or divide both sides by a negative number, that flips the sign. If you have to add or subtract to get the variable alone, that never flips the sign. Be sure to pay attention to the signs when adding and subtracting. Here are a few examples. You can click on the picture to make it bigger. Send me an email if you still need help.





Algebra I: Homework #2 - Adding and multiplying radicals. See the examples on your paper. If you are confused, send me an email! Tell me what number you need help with.

See you tomorrow!
Mrs. Swickey

Monday, March 26th

Hello! We had a great first day back after Spring Break. My Mimio Pad is not working right now, so I'm going semi-low tech tonight for your examples. You can click the pictures to make them bigger to read. I hope they are still useful!

Sixth Grade

Assignment #1 - Kitchen Math - Buying Produce. In this assignment the students are practicing multiplying and dividing decimal numbers, rounding decimals, and conversions. There are a few tricky bits with the conversions.

If you are given the cost per pound and the number of pounds wanted, it's just multiplication. Remember to move the decimal over the number of times a decimal is in the answer and round if you have to. See example 1 in the picture below.

If you are given the cost per kilogram and the number of pounds wanted, you first have to find the cost per pound. Since there are 2.2 kg in a pound, you can divide the price by 2.2. Remember, if it doesn't divide evenly, and I don't think any of them do, you will have to divide to three places after the decimal and round to the nearest cent. See example 2 in the picture below.

Seventh Grade

Math - We played a probability game in class today that we will finish up tomorrow. No homework!

Geography - Chapter 15, Section 2. Do questions #1-6 of the section assessment. For #6, do a good job of writing the letter! Imagine being back in that time and seeing the changes happening.

Eighth Grade

Pre-Algebra - Homework #1. Naming and drawing inequalities. Everyone finished in class so I won't do any examples.

Algebra I - Homework #1. Radicals. Here are three examples for the different types of problems you will do. If you have any questions, just email me!

See you tomorrow!
Mrs. Swickey

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