Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Wednesday January 7th

7th & 8th Grade General Science: Today in science students began working on a calendar of two different planets in the solar system. Students received a checklist of required elements to the project and we went over procedures to complete the tasks.
Homework: none

7th Grade Math: In 7th grade math students reviewed how to find the prime factorization of a number. The class was then introduced to finding the Greatest Common Factor of two numbers by using the prime factorization of both values.
Homework:
  • Finish Section 4.2 practice (#2, 4, 9, 10, 11, and 16, 17, OR 18)
  • Review #11 is due Friday

8th Grade Math: Today in math 8th graders went over several examples of multi-step inequalities. Included in these problems were examples of inequalities where the direction of the inequality symbol is reversed due to multiplication or division by a negative number.
Homework:
  • Choose any 3 problems from #11-23 of section 3.6 practice worksheet. Also solve #24.
  • Also, study for Chapter 3 Test (Friday).