Some typos in the Winter Break Packet...

Hi everyone,

Don't worry about problems 7 and 13 in the Winter Break packet, they each have typos that make solving them impossible.

Sorry about that, see you next week!

Have a wonderful break and a Happy New Year!

Enjoy your break!

If you've misplaced your Math Winter Break packet, you can print out another one here.

See you all in 2016!

Work for this week

Hello everyone,

This week we have been reviewing decimals and fractions. Test corrections for the Percents Unit Exam are due on Friday. We don't have homework on Wednesday because we are taking an interim assessment quiz, but Thursday's homework is here. (You only need to do the first page!)

If you need more practice with fractions and decimals, play some of the games linked on the right side of the page, or try one of these games from our Olympiad in class:

Keep it 100 with fractions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xtqdskSJzYLZmR1Z1O_sJEncKe4HaGoYUZMd5R2mdRM/edit?usp=sharing

Math Squares with Fractions (Addition and Subtraction of Fractions):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vWmkj6AKrwWYWKZwCPQDlGwFe5m6WkKtbSg4TwPwAkQ/edit?usp=sharing

Total Ten with fractions and decimals:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CIz1TL6FDS9_tyd9q3RAJ0hL_cpBO1BCx2TaiQfTQik/edit?usp=sharing

Homework for this week

Hi everyone,

For tonight's homework, scholars need to complete problems 51-58 in their percents packet. (The page is here in case they don't have the packet at home.) They received their quizzes back, and corrections are due next Tuesday.

We will have the final exam for the percents unit on Thursday. On Wednesday, the only homework will be to study for the exam.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Update on this week's homework

Hi everyone,

Based on how the scholars have been doing this week so far, the classwork and homework schedule has been changed slightly.

Thursday: Percent Change Project
HW: 6-5 p. 326 # 17-22

Friday: Finish Percent Change Mini-Project, Gallery Walk

HW: Study for the quiz

Monday: Percents Quiz 2, no homework

Percents games!

Hi everyone,

Since many of the scholars are struggling with percents, here are some excellent games to play online:

http://www.mathplayground.com/Decention/Decention.html
http://www.mathplayground.com/balloon_invaders_percent.html
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/percentage/MatchingPercentFraction.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/teachers/ks2_activities/maths/percentages.shtml

And some for fractions:

http://www.abcya.com/adding_fractions.htm
http://www.abcya.com/equivalent_fractions_bingo.htm

Homework and Classwork for this week

Hello everyone,

This week, the scholars will be working from excerpts from a new textbook. I made copies of the relevant pages, and all scholars have their own copy of the "Ultimate Percents Packet" that they need all week. If they lose the packet, they need to print it out again--here is a link to each page.

The homework schedule for the week is as follows:

Monday: 6-1 Converting between Fractions, Decimals and Percents and 6-2, Estimating with percents.
HW: p. 306 #s 32-35, 41-44, and p. 310 #s 29-32, 37-38

Tuesday: Review 6-2, Thanksgiving Packets returned
HW: Work on corrections for Thanksgiving Packet (Due next Tuesday)

Wednesday: 6-3 Finding Percents of a Number and 6-4, Solving Equations Using Percents
HW: p. 314 #s 27, 29, 35, 39, 45 and 46, and p. 318 #24-32 even

Thursday: 6-5, Percent of Change
HW: p. 326 #s 17-22

Friday: 6-6, Simple Interest
HW: p. 330 #s 14-19 and study for the quiz

Monday: Percents Quiz 2, no homework

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Thanksgiving Packet

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all enjoying the break! I noticed that there were two typos in the math packet, and so you don't need to do questions # 8 and #18.

See you on Monday!

Homework and Classwork for this week

Hello everyone,

To solidify scholars' understanding of percents, this week we will be doing a Black Friday Shopping Spree project. Here is the link to the project packet. Each day scholars have specific questions they need to complete:

Monday in class: Part 1
Monday Homework: Part 2
Tuesday in class: Part 3, begin Part 4
Tuesday Homework: Finish Part 4, do Part 5 #1 and Challenge questions (optional)
Wednesday in Class: Finish Part 5, complete reflection and rubric.

Learnzillion has some excellent videos on working with percents. Click on the link on the right of the page to find them!

Quiz corrections are also due on Wednesday. Enjoy the break!

Homework for the rest of the week

My apologies for not posting last night's homework earlier, here is the link for the homework from Wednesday night. Because I didn't post the link, I will accept late homeworks tomorrow for full credit.

The handouts for Wednesday's lesson are here.

Today (Thursday), scholars are taking a quiz and do not have homework. On Friday, we will be reviewing the quiz and making corrections, and the only homework is to work on quiz corrections.

The corrections for this quiz are due next Wednesday instead of next Friday, because we will not have school on Thursday or Friday for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Homework for Monday and Tuesday

Hi everyone,

Today (Monday), we did lesson 4.3. The handouts are available here, and tonight's homework as well as tomorrow night's homework is here. Tuesday's handouts are available here.

Homework for Friday

Hi everyone,

Today's handouts are here, and the homework is here.

Happy Friday!

Homework for Thursday, November 12th

We started our new unit on percents today. Scholars need to complete this homework. If they missed a handout from the lesson, they are all here.

As a reminder, test corrections are due on Friday.

The Final Exams are in!

Hi everyone,

Today, the scholars received their final exams from our first unit back. We spent the class today working on problems that were similar to the ones that many of them missed on the exam. Here is the handout, which also contains the guidelines for test corrections.

Their homework is to complete corrections for the test. Scholars usually have one week for test corrections, but in this case the corrections are due on Friday because it is the last day of the quarter. Also, as a reminder, from now on all scholars need to bring their purple math notebook and a glue stick to class every day. This will count as a homework assignment, and arriving unprepared will be treated as a missing homework.

Please contact me with any questions!

Homework for the week of November 2-6

Hello everyone,

This week, scholars are finishing up their Dream Classroom Design projects. Their homework for Monday is to simply finish the project, which is due on Wednesday, November 4th. All of the information for the project can be found in the previous post.

Scholars have their final exam for this unit on Friday. We will spend class on Wednesday looking at one another's projects and beginning the review of lessons 1.1-1.22. Wednesday's homework: Find three questions you need help with from lessons 1.1-1.22. They can be from homework, classwork, assessments, or any other resources.

Thursday will be spent on reviewing the questions that scholars have identified from lessons 1.1-1.22. Thursday's homework is just to study for the exam! If you are struggling, take a look at the Homework Helper link to the right, which has step by step examples of every type of problem from lessons 1.1-1.22.

As always, let me know if you have any questions!

Homework for the weekend

Hello everyone,

As scholars are finishing up our unit on ratios and proportions, they are completing a project using the mathematical concept of Scale Factor, which allows them to reduce or enlarge images. Their project is to design their dream classroom, using the measurements we took of the classroom on Thursday. The project is due on Wednesday, November 4th. All of the relevant information is here. 

For Monday, their homework is to finalize their shopping list--they need to select the items they want to buy, which can't total more than $10,000. If they haven't completed their scale drawing of the classroom or their sketch of their dream design, they must also complete that before class on Monday.

Please email me at msatwill@gmail.com with any questions.

Homework and Classwork for the week of October 26th

Hello everyone,

This week, students are continuing their study of ratios and proportion and applying what they have learned to geometric shapes, using the constant of proportionality as a scale factor to reduce or enlarge objects. We will be studying lessons 1.16-1.21 this week.

On Monday, we will study lessons 1.16 and 1.17. The handout for those lessons is here. Tonight, scholars need to complete the homework for lessons 1.16 and 1.17, which can be found here along with the homework for Tuesday night, lesson 1.18.

On Tuesday, we will study lesson 1.18. The handout for the lesson is here, and the homework link is above with Monday's homework.

Scholars had a quiz last week, and they received their grades last Friday. Their corrections for the quiz are due this Friday. As a reminder, here are the guidelines for test/quiz corrections:

-Scholars can receive back up to half the points they missed
-Corrections must be on a separate sheet of paper and turned in with the test

For each question:
-They must show their work
-They must write a sentence explaining what they did wrong, or what they didn't understand before but they do understand now.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Homework for Wednesday, and quiz study suggestions!

Hello everyone,

Today scholars learned lesson 1.15. Tonight's homework, along with studying for the quiz, is here.

The quiz will be on lessons 1.11-1.15. Scholars will be able to use calculators, but they still need to understand how to compare, add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions. A helpful resource for studying for the quiz is the Homework Helper link to the right. Look at lessons 1.11-1.15 for an overview of the types of problems that will be on the quiz and how to solve them.

Finally, the quiz will be multiple choice, so scholars should be sure to review their Steps for Excellence.

There will be no homework on Thursday as we will spend the whole class period taking the quiz, and on Friday the only homework will be to complete quiz corrections, which will be due the following Friday.

Introducing...The Homework Helper!

Hello everyone,

I've been hearing lots of comments from scholars and parents that the homework is very difficult. While I grade homework for effort and completion, not accuracy, some scholars have asked for more help than their parents can give them, or would just like some more examples of completed problems.

With this in mind, I am going to post a link to the Homework Helper for this module (Chapter) to the right. It has a few practice problems for each lesson with the steps for how to do each one. If you have trouble using the Homework Helper, please let me know and I'll show you how to use it.

Good luck!

Homework and Classwork for Week of October 19th

Hello everyone,

Scholars will have a quiz this Thursday on ratios and unit rates of fractions. If you scholar is struggling with operations involving fractions (adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing) it is EXTREMELY important to review these operations. Here are some great fraction games to play online.

Monday, scholars learned lesson 1.13, and the homework for tonight and Tuesday night (Lesson 1.14) is here.

Starting with this coming assessment on Thursday, scholars who fail with a grade below 65% will be required to attend tutoring either at lunch or after school, and they will be sent home with a note explaining this that needs to be signed and returned. Scholars who fail with a grade from 65%-79% are highly encouraged to attend tutoring, but it is not required.

As always, please contact me with any questions at msatwill@gmail.com.

Homework and classwork for October 13-16

Hello there,

We had to make some adjustments to this week's lessons, so if you checked earlier there are some changes for the week. Scholars received their tests today, and their grades will be posted to Engrade this evening. Please email me at msatwill@gmail.com if you do not know how to access your scholar's engrade account.

Classwork for Tuesday's lesson, 1.11, is here.

Tuesday's homework on lesson 1.11 and Wednesday's homework for lesson 1.12 is here.

Wednesday's classwork for lesson 1.12 is here.

Today (Thursday), rather than continue a new lesson, we reviewed the content from last week's test. The homework for tonight is to work on test corrections. (If you don't remember how to do those, check out the earlier posts!)

Scholars don't have any homework due on Friday, as Friday is a field day, but they do need to work on their test corrections, which are due next Thursday.

As always, please contact me with any questions.

Homework and classwork for October 5-9

Hi there,

Today in class (Monday) we completed lesson 1.7, and the handout is available here. For tonight's homework, complete lesson 1.7 on this handout, and for tomorrow (Tuesday's) homework, complete lesson 1.8-1.9 on the same handout. Tomorrow's handout for lessons 1.8-1.9 is here, and Wednesday's handout for lesson 1.10 is here. Wednesday's homework is to come up with three questions from lessons 1.1-1.10 that you need help with, and on Thursday during class we will have a review session. There is no homework besides studying for the exam on Thursday night.

On Friday, scholars will be having a midpoint exam for chapter 1, which will cover lessons 1.1-1.10 so make sure to study throughout the week!

If you need more help, look in chapter 5 of the textbook (book A, the light green one), or look up ratios and proportions in your favorite website to the right!

Homework and classwork for Wednesday and Thursday--Quiz on Friday!

Hi there,

Here is the handout for Wednesday's lesson. Here is the homework for Wednesday and Thursday. There is a quiz on lessons 1.1-1.6 on Friday, so make sure you know the definitions and how to use the following concepts:

Ratio

Equivalent Ratios

Unit Rate

Proportion

Constant of Proportionality

Graphing Proportions

Homework for Monday and Tuesday

Hello,

Today and tomorrow (Monday and Tuesday) we will be continuing our study of proportions and ratios with lessons 1.3 and 1.4. Here is the homework for both nights, here is the handout for lesson 1.3, and here is the handout for lesson 1.4.

We will have a quiz on Friday on lessons 1.1-1.6, so if you have been struggling with the material, or you just lost your copy of one of the handouts, please check the previous posts!

Also, today in class we introduced the "Mathematician's Toolbox." This is just a simple way to keep track of all of the vocabulary terms that we have learned in math class so far. If you lose yours and need another copy, you can print out a blank one here.

Homework for the rest of the week: None!

Because of the religious holidays, the test today, and field day on Friday, we will not be having any more homework this week.

However, the students will receive their tests back on Thursday, and they should make test corrections.

Test corrections guideline:

-On a separate sheet of paper
-Showing all work for each problem corrected
-Include at least one sentence for each problem explaining what you did wrong/what you understand now. Sentences like "I didn't get it before" or "I guessed" aren't acceptable

They will be due one week from Thursday, and can earn back up to one half of the points that students missed on the test.

Homework for Monday and Tuesday

Here is the link for the homework assignment for Monday and Tuesday!

Here is the handout for lesson 1.1, and here is for 1.2.

Please reach out to msatwill@gmail.com if you have any questions! (You are allowed to use a calculator to check your work, but you MUST show all of your work to receive full credit!)

Bored? Want to play a game? Or do you need some extra help?

Enrichment:

Here are some great websites that scholars can use to brush up on math skills, learn new ones, or find a different way of learning the topics we work on in class:

Games:

http://www.funbrain.com/

http://www.mathplayground.com/games.html

http://www.hoodamath.com/

Lessons:

https://www.khanacademy.org/

http://www.coolmath.com/

http://edhelper.com/middle_school_math.htm

Welcome back! September 14-18th, All Classes

Welcome to the blog for Ms. Atwill's math classes at BCSE!

Here you will find handouts, homework assignments, and anything else required for math class.

This week, scholars in all three math classes (7th, Pre-Algebra, and Algebra) are completing the same project with the same homework. If you need another copy of the handout, it is available on this Google doc.

Please contact me about any questions you may have at ms.atwill@gmail.com, or my BCSE email address, katwill@bronxexcellence.org, or by calling the school.