Class Topics: 04.17.13

In Math Six today, students evaluated their own two and four point responses from last night's Evening Practice against the rubric Mr. Giomini provided.   Students played against Mr. Giomini in a game that helped review our fraction skills.  Once that game was over, students paired up and played against each other.  Class analyzed and deconstructed a story problem in an attempt to correctly answer it and receive the full point value.
Today's Learning Goals: The student will be able to...

1. add fractions.
2. generate equivalent fractions.
3. deconstruct story problems to identify key terms/words in the question.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to...

1. answer the two questions posted below.
• On your piece of paper, simplify the expression 10 – 4 ÷ 0.5 + 4 to find its value. Explain how you used order of operations to simplify the expression.

• The students in a class checked out library books for their book reports. All the books came from five categories: fiction, biography, science, history, and the arts.  The librarian wants to make a graph to show the teachers and students which categories of books were used most often by students for their book reports. She could create a bar graph or a circle graph. On your sheet of paper, state one advantage of using the bar graph and one advantage of using the circle graph to show the number of books the students chose from the five categories.

In Pre-Algebra today, students reviewed last night's Evening Practice with Mr. Giomini and assessed their own work using a rubric.  Once that was complete, Chapter Ten Midpoint quizzes were distributed and discussed.  Questions six and seven were modeled by Mr. Giomini.  Students then began Lesson 10.4: Solving Multi-step Inequalities.

Today's Learning Goals: 

1. simplify inequalities by using the distributive property and combining like terms when necessary.
2. solving inequalities when variables are on both sides of the inequality symbol.
3. graph the solution set to inequalities.

For Evening Practice, the student is expected to...

1. answer the two questions posted above.
2. answer questions 1 - 15 and 26 on page 517.