Class Topics: 02.12.13

In Math Six today, students reviewed their Evening Practice with Mr. Giomini.  Students then began Lesson 6.4 - Multiplication and Division of Positive and Negative Numbers.  Mr. Giomini incorporated the Pre-Algebra curriculum into today's lesson and modeled how to solve equations with positive and negative numbers.
Today's Learning Goals: The student will be able to...

1. develop rules for multiplying and dividing positive and negative numbers.
2. apply rules for multiplying and dividing positive and negative numbers.

For Evening Practice, the student has been assigned...

1. Level I - Study Link 6.4
2. Level II - Practice B: CLICK HERE!!!
3. Level III - Practice C: CLICK HERE!!!

Simple Equations: Introduction to basic algebraic equations of the form Ax=B

In Pre-Algebra today, students reviewed their Evening Practice with Mr. Giomini.  Once questions were answered and clarified, students began Lesson 7.7 - Scale Drawings.  During this lesson, students worked with problems such as The length of an object on a scale drawing is 5 cm, and its actual length is 15 m.  The scale is 1 cm: ____ m.  What is the scale?  Another problem that we discussed was Under a 1000:1 microscope view, a paramecium appears to have length 39 mm.  What is the actual length of the paramecium?

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

1. make comparisons between scale drawings and actual objects.
2. find dimensions between scale drawings and actual objects.

For Evening Practice, the student has been assigned...

1. questions 7 - 21 and 30 - 34 on pages 374 and 375.