October 20,
2013
Study Skills
update: Some
strategies for problem solving:
- Find the question and rephrase it in your
own words.
- What unit should the answer be in?
- Use graphs, charts, diagrams or pictures
to represent, organize or visualize information.
- Figure out what information you need to
solve the problem and disregard the unnecessary “stuff”.
- Change the numbers to more “friendly
numbers.
- Make an estimate. Is your answer reasonable?
- Find a similar problem that you have
already done.
Oct 21 Math
update:
6th
grade: The students will expand operations with
whole numbers to operations with decimal numbers. They will benefit from
practicing reading very large and very small numbers. In our study of the
decimal system we will delve deeply into how the powers of ten are related to
extended multiplication and division and as preparation for work with
exponents.
7th
grade: Students will be working on rates and
ratios and their application to real world situations. The will need to be
practicing operaitons with rational numbers for this work as well.
8th
grade: Students will expand their knowledge of
proportional reasoning through rates and ratios. They will practice division of
fractions and use division properties to solve simple equations.
