Vocab

Topic 6 Launch and This week's vocab

Topic 6 is officially underway and their are some new online assignments for you all to start looking at. We've started the Topic labeled "Fractions, Decimals, and Percents" with conversions of fractions to decimals that repeat or terminate. Here is a list of this week's vocab words that we will have a quiz over this Friday: Repeating decimal Terminating decimal Percent Remainder Bar notation Be sure to have all your Topic 4 and Topic 5 homework finished before this Friday when grades are posted for the end of the 9 weeks.

Explore Testing and Wrapping up Topic 5

As you guys know we took Topic 5 test last week. With Explore testing taking up a chunk of this short week, there hasn't been any new homework posted online or vocab words for this week. We are going over most missed questions from the Topic 5 test and self-evaluating the quality of our open responses. Friday we may begin Topic 6 a little bit, but there is no homework from Topic 6 that has been given at this point.

Topic 5 Test

We have another test coming up at the end of this week.  No vocabulary for this week as we prepare for the Topic 5 Test.  There are also no online homework assignments for this week.  Our focus is strictly getting you ready for the test starting this Thursday.  The test will have 30 multiple choice questions and we will pass out a study guide Tuesday in class that will cover the concepts you will see.  Be sure to spend time out of class reviewing the concepts as I expect better results on this assessment compared to Topic 4.  Friday we will have a written assessment in the form of a extended response question. 

Mid-term woes

I know after mid-terms there have been some concerns involving grades so far this school year in Math.  I appreciate the emails and contacts, and I hope that I've answered any questions you as parents may have.  Please feel free to let me know if you have questions about your student's grade or performance.  It's my job to serve the students I have and help them be successful.  As our students mature and grow accustom to how things work at the middle school I know grades will improve.  Some are discovering that more effort is required to achieve on the more challenging content that we have to cover.  I think we have gotten off to a great start and I look forward to facing these math problems together. 

100 club August 31 Vocab Quiz

Vocab Quiz

Vocab and a new week

Hey guys, I apologize for not being in class today. I'd rather be with you guys rather than sit in these meetings, but I'm sure Mrs. Riley did a great job with you. There are two new homework assignments posted on Digits as of this morning. Make sure to have them finished before next Monday. Also, last week's assignments 5.1 through 5.3, I plan on going over some of the difficult problems from 5.3 tomorrow in class. So, if you didn't finish all of 5.3, I'll wait another day before I get online and check for grades.

This week's vocab words are:
Complex Fraction
Dividend
Divisor
Exponent
Order of Operations

 I will have your vocab quiz from last week graded and given back to you by Thursday. Sorry for the delay but I had a busy labor day weekend laying down hard wood flooring in my In-laws new home. Got to use a lot of math though!!! I'll post some good notes over the vocab tomorrow for you to study and prepare for.