Class Topics: 12.21.12

In Math Six today, students in fourth period completed the second day of the Unit Four Summative Posttest.  Students in second period completed the Discovery Education Benchmark Assessment.
Today's Learning Goals: The students will be able to...

1. multiply fractions and reduce products to simplest terms.
2. determine the greatest common factor of multiple numbers using prime factorization.
3. convert between fractions, decimals and percents.
4. explain why a solution involving an improper fraction is either correct of incorrect.

For Holiday Practice, it is suggested that the student...

1. complete the following Khan Skills that will help prepare us for Unit Five:
• Recognizing rays, lines and line segments
• Measuring segments
• Vertical angles
• Parallel lines 1

In Pre-Algebra today, students in first period worked in Lesson 6-2: Perimeter and Area of Triangles and Trapezoids.  

During third period, students completed the second Discovery Benchmark Assessment.  

Today's Learning Goals: The students will be able to...

1. develop a formula for finding the area of a triangle and trapezoid.
2. apply the formula to calculate the area of a triangle and trapezoid.

For Holiday Practice, it is suggested that the student...

1. view and complete the following Khan Skills;
• The Pythagorean Theorem - View
• Pythagorean Theorem - Practice
• Solid geometry volume - View
• Volume of a sphere - View