Sunday, January 25, 2015

Week 22

On Thursday this week, there will be a substitute teacher.  All math teachers at John Muir Middle School are participating in professional development related to meeting the different needs of all students at John Muir.  There will be a quiz on Friday for both classes, to prepare any questions for Mrs. Tamura on Wednesday (or at the latest the beginning of class on Friday).  Students in both classes will be working on a Practice Quiz and Review with the substitute on Thursday.

6th Grade Accelerated (https://sjusd.app.box.com/s/4da00xgz3wfsxk92o874)
This week, students will be learning more about expressions: combining like terms and the distributive property.  We'll see how these skills help us solve multi-step equations.

7th Grade Common Core (https://sjusd.app.box.com/s/fvpzcxpzao0bdhrp86pg)
This week, students will be using everything they know about percent problems (wholesale price, mark up, retail/selling price, commission, tax, discount, and profit) in longer story problems that involve multiple steps.  We will be doing problems that begin with wholesale all the way through profit.  From Tuesday through Thursday, students will be working "backwards" from different parts of the problem (starting with the mark up, for example, and figuring out what the wholesale price was).  There will be a quiz on Friday.

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