Thursday November 18th

8th Grade Math: Today in math students finished their work on the third stage of our "Life Math" unit.  This assignment focused on students researching a home/condo for sale in the Juneau area and then going through the necessary calculations to determine their down payment, monthly mortgage, yearly taxes, and monthly utility bills.  With about thirty minutes left in class we began the next phase of our "Life Math" unit where students learn about investing their money.  Today's discussion focused on savings accounts.  We will continue this assignment tomorrow.
Homework:

• Review Homework #3 is due tomorrow (Friday)
• Finish the table on the front side of the "savings account" worksheet

7th Grade Math: In 7th grade math we learned how to write equivalent fractions.  Also, students learned how to use the prime factorization to write fractions in their simplest form. 
Homework:     

• Review Homework #3 is due tomorrow (Friday)
• Finish 4.4 Practice (odds) 

7th/8th Grade Science: Today in science students continued working on their world map enlargements.  We will use these maps to illustrate how common household items are made up from minerals mined throughout the world.   Homework: finish the world map enlargement assignment