Week of January 23, 2011

Monday and Tuesday:  Students will be solving ratios pictorally on the Thinking Blocks website:  www.thinkingblocks.com

Wednesday:  We discussed ratio tables, their purpose, and two methods to complete them.  Then students worked on problems 5-10 on pages 325-326.

Thursday:  Students completed the rest of the assignment from yesterday:  problems 11-20 on pages 325-326.

Friday:  Students explored proportion and proportional thinking.

Week of January 16, 2012

Monday:  No School

Tuesday:  Summative test over equivalencies.  Introduction to ratios for Mr. Hayes’ and Mrs. Anderson’s homeroom classes.

Wednesday:  We continued the introduction to ratios and then students completed a worksheet on part-to-whole and part-to-part ratios.  Any student who did not complete this in class will need to take it home to complete.

Thursday:  Students graded their paper on ratios, I answered clarifying questions regarding Mathematics Investigation 14, and then we completed an introduction to rates.  HOMEWORK:  Talk to an adult and come up with five different types of rates that are used in daily living.

Friday:  Students worked on finding the unit rate.  This worksheet is due on Monday.

Week of January 9, 2012

Upcoming assessment:  Next Tuesday students will be taking the summative assessment over equivalencies.  Students will be required to convert between decimals, fractions, and percents; as well as, placing a given set of numbers on a number line.

Monday:  Students continued working on equivalencies by converting decimals to percents and fractions and then converting percents to decimals and fractions.  Mathematics Investigation 13 was handed out and will be due this Friday.

Tuesday:  Students took a brief formative assessment over equivalencies and then we explored placing percents, decimals, and fractions one the same number line.  HOMEWORK:  “Gnarly Number Lines”  the front of the page only.

Wednesday:  Students who have not yet mastered converting fractions to decimals gained extra practice by working on p. 683; L4-8, #1-20.  The other students completed p. 709 in their text book.  HOMEWORK:  The back of the “Gnarly Number Lines” worksheet will be due on Friday.

Tomorrow I will be in meetings during the day.  As a result, questions over Mathematics Investigation 13 will be answered on Friday and the entire worksheet will be collected on Tuesday.

Thursday:  Students completed pg. 368-369, #12-39.

Friday:  I answered clarifying questions over Mathematics Investigation 13 and we graded the assignment from yesterday.  The students had the rest of the class period to review and prepare for the test on Tuesday.  Mathematics Investigation 13 will be due on Tuesday also.

Week of January 2, 2011

Monday & Tuesday:  no school

Wednesday:  Today students went over comparing and ordering fractions and decimal fractions.

Thursday:  Students completed the page in their comp. book that covers percents.  The section will be completed during the ratio unit that is coming up.  Afterward, students modeled a couple of percents on grids and then working with their shoulder-partner worked on a work sheet that requires them to really focus on the percent sense to solve the problems.

Friday:  Students completed part of a comp. book page on converting fractions to decimals and percents.  Students then worked on converting fractions to decimals and percents using two different methods.  The first method was writing an equivalent fraction with a denominator of 100 and then writing as a decimal and then a decimal.  The second method was dividing the numerator and the denominator to get the decimal form and then changing to a percent.  Students then practiced using the conversion function on calculators.