We are taking the Kansas Math Assessment this week! Wow, it’s hard to believe it’s finally here. The students have worked very hard and I’m looking forward to seeing how well they will do!
Monday – Jeopardy Review for Math Assessments
Tuesday – Kansas Math Assessment
Wednesday – Kansas Math Assessment
Thursday – Kansas Math Assessment
Friday – Positive and Negative Numbers
We will finish our preparations for the Kansas Math Assessment this week. The students will take the Science Assessment this week and the Math Assessment next week.
Math students will have their first opportunity to take the District Math Assessment (DMCT) the first week of May. They will need to pass this assessment as a requirement for graduation from Wamego High School and will have the opportunity each year. Those students that pass this year will not take it again.
Monday – Scale drawings and Compound Area. HW: Compound Area.
Tuesday – Bingo to review area and perimeter formulas, area, perimeter, compound area and properties of quadrilaterals.
Wednesday - Scale Drawings and Patterns, HW: To be announced.
Thursday – Overall review using KMA Review Worksheet #3
Friday – Bell Work Quiz, begin review Jeopardy game.
The last week before Spring Break! We are all excited. We will be working on review activities to prepare for the Kansas Math Assessment.
Monday – Review KMA pretest and review Patterns, HW: KMA Review #2, due Wednesday.
Tuesday – Interpreting Graphs
Wednesday – The last formative quiz that will determine the homework each student will have after spring break. The students will have homework based on which math concepts they did not understand on this last formative quiz.
Thursday – Parent/Student/Teacher conferences from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Friday – No school! Have a wonderful Spring Break!!!
We continue to work with ratios and proportions. Hopefully the students are beginning to feel better about both concepts. They are challenging ideas yet applicable in many real world situations. Just the idea of objects staying in proportion in photographs is important.
This week we will work more in the Unit called Comparing and Scaling, but we will leave this unit temporarilty and pick it up again after state testing. We will focus on reviewing and understanding the math ideas on the Kansas Math Assessment and complete these assessments the first week of April.
Monday – Comparing and Scaling 2.3, Scaling ratios, HW: Proportions and Percents, Page 1, page 2, due Wednesday
Tuesday – Comparing and Scaling 4.1, Setting up and Solving Proportions
Wednesday – Comparing and Scaling, 4.2, Everyday use of Proportions, HW: Area and Perimeter, (coming soon) due Monday
Thursday – Area and Perimeter including shapes made from rectangles, triangles and circles.
Friday – No School. Professional Development for teachers and work day for end of 3rd 9 weeks.
Time is flying by! I apologize for being a day late on posting. We will end our unit called Stretching and Shrinking and will begin a unit called Comparing and Scaling later this week. Comparing and Scaling which will focus on comparing quantities using fractions, decimals, ratios and percents. We will continue to work with proportions deepening the students understanding. We will also be reviewing for the Kansas Math Assessment. The homework will be a mix of both , because proportional reasoning questions appear on the KMA, too.
Monday – Jeopardy Review
Tuesday – Stetching and Shrinking Unit Test
Wednesday – Kansas Math Assessment Pre-test. *I will be in Kansas City for a conference on the new Common Core Standards.
Thursday – Comparing and Scaling, 2.1 , Mixing Juice (tasting juice), working with ratios and other forms of comparisons, HW: Proportional Reasoning, due Monday.
Friday – Comparing and Scaling, 2.1 continued.
The students worked very hard last week and ended the week with a challenging quiz. We will review and the students will have an opportunity to correct quizzes on Monday. We will wrap up the unit called Stretching and Shrinking this week and have a Unit Test either Monday or Tuesday of next week.
The students set class goals for the Kansas Math Assessment and will set personal goals this week. We have begun to focus and review concepts on the assessment and will continue as we work with proportional reasoning.
Monday - No school/professional development for the teachers.
Tuesday – Stretching and Shrinking 4.3, Finding missing side lengths when given two similar shapes, HW: Review guide for the test (online copy coming soon), due Thursday.
Wednesday – S & S 4.3 continued.
Thursday – Stretching and Shrinking Quiz 2, HW: Kansas Math Assessment Prep – decimals and fractions, due Monday
Friday – Review for the S & S Unit Test.
We have a very busy week coming up. We are working with scale factors and learning about ratios. Friday, we will have short classes for the Fine Arts Fair. I also have Bus Duty after school except Tuesday and Tuesday morning I have a math team meeting. I will be available all other times and can work with students in Skills if needed.
Monday – Stretching and Shrinking, 3.3 Scale Factors and Similar Figures, HW: S & S 3.3 and Decimal Review
Tuesday – 4.1, S & S, Ratios with Similar Figures
Wednesday – Ratios with Similar Triangles, HW: Proportional Reasoning A, due Friday. QUIZ
Thursday – S & S, 4.3 Missing Side Lengths
Friday – Fine Arts Fair – shortened schedule for regular classes. Bellwork Quiz and time to work on homework. HW: Proportional Reasoning B, due Monday
The students did so well on the Integers test! I was so proud of them! We’ve jumped right into the new unit, called Stretching and Shrinking. We are looking at similar figures and working to understand the math that connects them. We are also beginning our work on preparing for the Kansas Math Assessments. Some homework will be directly related to the unit and some will broaden our perspective to review concepts for the Kansas Math Assessment.
Monday – Stretching and Shrinking, 1.3 Scaling Up and Down, HW: Surface Area and Volume, due Wednesday
Tuesday – S & S, 2.1 Making Similar Figures, The Wump Family
Wednesday – S & S 2.1, continued, HW: S & S, 2.1, due Friday
Thursday – S & S 2.2, Changing the Figures’ Size and Location
Friday – S & S, 2.3 Scale Factors, HW: S & S 2.3, due Monday
Following our test over integers (positive and negative numbers), we will be starting a new unit on similar shapes. We will learn what makes objects similar from a math perspective. We will enlarge and reduce images and learn to recognize corresponding parts.
Monday – Accentuate the Negative and KMA Review , HW: Test Review Guide, due Tuesday
Tuesday – Accentuate the Negative Jeopardy
Wednesday – Accentuate the Negative Unit Test
Thursday – Stretching and Shrinking 1.1, Introduction to Similarity
Friday S & S, 1.2 Comparing Similar Figures
The students have been working with integers (positive and negative numbers) with the most challenging concept being subtraction. They worked hard last week and overall did very well on the quiz! I was very proud of them. We will continue this week with multiplying and dividing integers. Later in the week we will be working with algebraic expressions with one or two variables.
Monday - We will be in the computer lab to play the integer product game. You can play here: Integer Product Game. HW: Area and Perimeter, due Wednesday
Tuesday – Accentuate the Negative, 4.4 Dividing Integers
Wednesday – Accentuate the Negative, 4.4 Dividing Integers continued, HW: Skill: Dividing Integers, due Friday
Thursday – Writing algebraic expressions and equations.
Friday – Solving algebraic equations, HW: Algebraic expressions and equations* coming soon, due Monday
