Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Tuesday January 6th

7th & 8th Grade General Science: Today in science students finished working on a graph to illustrate how many times each of the planets in the solar system rotate on their axes over the course of an "earth week".
Homework:
  • finish graphs for speed of rotation & speed of revolution (orbital speed) of all the planets
  • finish graph of # of days on each planet relative to an earth week
7th Grade Math: In 7th grade math students continued to practice solving problems relating to factors and prime factorization. The class completed section 4.1 practice and then graded it at the end of class to measure their understanding of the topics covered.
Homework: Review #10 is due tomorrow

8th Grade Math: Today 8th graders began class by grading their homework (3.4 Practice-Solving Inequalities). The class then learned how to solve multi step inequalities. This included a learning the rule for inequalities when dividing or multiplying by a negative number.
Homework: Review #10 is due tomorrow