Monday, December 14, 2009

Monday December 14th

7th & 8th Grade General Science: In science students started working on a lab to determine the density of a sphere. This is found by dividing mass of the sphere by the volume. The formula for volume of a sphere is 4/3(3.14)(r)(r)(r). Students will finish the data collection (measurements) and calculations tomorrow.
Homework: none

7th Grade Math: Today students finished started the process of reviewing for the Chapter 3 test tomorrow.
Homework: study for chapter 3 test tomorrow.

8th Grade Math: Today 8th graders competed a series of review activities and then launched into Chapter 4. In section 4.1 students reviewed prior learning of finding the Prime Factorization of whole numbers. They were then introduced to how to prime factor a monomial.
Homework: none (review homework #7 will be handed out tomorrow and due Thursday)