Monday, September 22, 2008

Monday September 22nd

7th & 8th Grade General Science:
Today in science students researched mailing addresses for universities and/or companies where they will have their scientist's resumes sent.
  • Homework: Finish resume for famous scientist that was researched over the past several class periods.
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7
th Grade Math:
Today 7th graders received their mid chapter one quiz. Many students need to have further practice on Order of Operations. The class was encouraged to practice these problems on the textbook's website. Students can make their quiz grades up to 85% (in this case 38/45 points). After going over the quiz we continued in the textbook by studying section 1.6, which introduces finding area and perimeter of rectangles and squares.
  • Homework: Review #3 (all problems) is due Wednesday at the start of class.
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8th Grade Math:
Today in math 8th graders received the graded quizzes that they completed on Friday. We went over a few problems and then went into the textbook to cover new material. Students were introduced to section 1.5 which teaches the rules and strategies for adding integers.

  • Homework: Review #3 (all problems) is due Wednesday at the start of class.