Week 30 - Intro to Probability & Statistics

Unit 6 Test Results
Last Friday, students took the third unit test of the semester.  The results are in Infinite Campus and students will receive their test booklets and answer documents on Monday.

Below are some brief statistics by class period.

Period	# Students  >= 90%	# Total  students	Average  score
1	15	29	86%
5	10	23	84%
6	5	27	81%

The Road Ahead

• In the next two weeks, we will be completing our final unit of new material before the CST (3/26 to 4/6).
• Following that will be one week of spring break (4/7 to 4/15).
• When we return, we will spend two weeks preparing for the CST by reviewing (4/16 to 4/27)
• 4/28 - Saturday Academy (optional morning opportunity to take a full practice CST)
• The CST begins the next week (4/30 to 5/4).

Probability & Statistics

This unit is taken from the 6th grade textbook, which your child does not have.  Homework will be given on worksheets from class.  If you would like access to the 6th grade textbook online, you can go to the textbook website (http://my.hrw.com) and sign in as the user 6math16 and the password johnmuir.

This Week

This week, we will introduce probability and statistics and explore experimental and theoretical probability, sample spaces, and disjoint events.  

Homework for the week is as follows:

Monday (3/26) - Introduction to Probability worksheet

Tuesday (3/27) - Practice C worksheet (both sides, odds only)

Wednesday (3/28) - Sample Spaces worksheet

Thursday (3/29) - Unit 7 Quiz 1 Practice Problems

Friday (3/30) - No HW Quiz today

Week 29 - Unit 6 Geometry Test

This Week
This week, we will be taking our studies of angles, circles, and the Pythagorean Theorem to the next level, culminating in the Unit 6 Geometry test on Friday.

Homework for the week is as follows:
Monday (3/19) - Advanced Angles W.S.
Tuesday (3/20) - Advanced Pythagorean Thm W.S.
Wednesday (3/21) - Circle Application W.S.
Thursday (3/22) - Unit 6 Practice Test Corrections
Friday (3/23) - No HW (Test Today!)

Week 28 - Interim Assessments

Interim Assessments
On Tuesday and Wednesday, students will be taking Interim Assessments in their math and language arts classes.  They will take Part 1 on Tuesday and Part 2 on Wednesday.  This is the same interim assessment that students took back in November and I hope to see growth since then!  The interim assessment covers material from 6th grade math (not the Pre-Algebra that we have been studying this year).  The reason for this is that the CST that the students will take in May will be the 6th grade math CST.

This Week
This week, we will continue our study of perimeter (and circumference) and area by looking at complex figures.  We will learn how to do this on Thursday and practice it more on Friday.

Homework assigned on Thursday will be due on Monday of next week.

Week 27 - Geometry

Sub on Tuesday

I will be out for training on Tuesday.  Mrs. Myers, retired math teacher, will be the substitute teacher.  Students will also be taking the district writing test on this day, so classes will be shorter.

This Week

This week, we continue our study of geometry with area of parallelograms and trapezoids and then area and circumference of circles.  We will also learn about coordinate geometry where we plot points that create polygons and then find the perimeter and area.

Homework for the week is as follows:

Monday (3/5): WB 9-1 all

Tuesday (3/6): WB 9-2 all

Wednesday (3/7): WB 9-4 #1, 3, 8, 9, 13

Thursday (3/8): Unit 6 Quiz 2 Practice Problems
Friday (3/9): No HW