Training on Tuesday
I will be at the Santa Clara County office on Tuesday with all of the other 8th grade math intervention teachers attending a training. Mrs. Carol Myers, a retired math teacher and former board of education member, will be the substitute. Students will be working on the second day of a project.
Unit 2 Test Results
Last Friday, students took their second unit test on Equations and Inequalities. The results are in Infinite Campus and I will share individual scores with each student, but I will return the test booklets and answer documents on Wednesday (there are still a few students who were absent and still need to make up the test).
I offered incentives for 4 different categories:
Students will have a chance to earn half credit back by completing test corrections on a separate sheet of binder paper (I do not need the original test back). Students must copy the original problem and show all work for credit.
This Week
This week, we will be spending time on two-step equation word problem projects and analyzing data. On Monday, students will work on solving various two-step equation word problems and on Tuesday, they will have time in class to work on putting them on posters. On Wednesday, we will learn how to use plot data using Box-and-Whiskers. This will involve new vocabulary including maximum, minimum, upper quartile, lower quartile, and range. On Thursday, we will review Box-and-Whiskers as well as Stem-and-Leaf from the beginning of Unit 2. Our quiz this week will be on the two data plots (Box-and-Whiskers and Stem-and-Leaf) as well as the two-step equation word problems.
Homework for the week is as follows:
Monday (10/17) - Two-Step Equation Word Problems (solve all)
Tuesday (10/18) - Two-Step Equations Poster (put 2 on a poster)
Wednesday (10/19) - WB 11-3 all
Thursday (10/20) - Data Quiz Practice Problems
Friday (10/21) - Problem of the Week #8 (Binary)
I will be at the Santa Clara County office on Tuesday with all of the other 8th grade math intervention teachers attending a training. Mrs. Carol Myers, a retired math teacher and former board of education member, will be the substitute. Students will be working on the second day of a project.
Unit 2 Test Results
Last Friday, students took their second unit test on Equations and Inequalities. The results are in Infinite Campus and I will share individual scores with each student, but I will return the test booklets and answer documents on Wednesday (there are still a few students who were absent and still need to make up the test).
I offered incentives for 4 different categories:
- Scoring 100%
- Scoring an A (90%)
- Improving from the last test (any amount of improvement)
- Showing the most work (1 winner per class period)
| Period | # Students > 90% | Total students | Average |
| 1 | 14 | 28 | 86% |
| 5 | 10 | 20 | 87% |
| 6 | 18 | 29 | 89% |
Students will have a chance to earn half credit back by completing test corrections on a separate sheet of binder paper (I do not need the original test back). Students must copy the original problem and show all work for credit.
This Week
This week, we will be spending time on two-step equation word problem projects and analyzing data. On Monday, students will work on solving various two-step equation word problems and on Tuesday, they will have time in class to work on putting them on posters. On Wednesday, we will learn how to use plot data using Box-and-Whiskers. This will involve new vocabulary including maximum, minimum, upper quartile, lower quartile, and range. On Thursday, we will review Box-and-Whiskers as well as Stem-and-Leaf from the beginning of Unit 2. Our quiz this week will be on the two data plots (Box-and-Whiskers and Stem-and-Leaf) as well as the two-step equation word problems.
Homework for the week is as follows:
Monday (10/17) - Two-Step Equation Word Problems (solve all)
Tuesday (10/18) - Two-Step Equations Poster (put 2 on a poster)
Wednesday (10/19) - WB 11-3 all
Thursday (10/20) - Data Quiz Practice Problems
Friday (10/21) - Problem of the Week #8 (Binary)
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