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.

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Week 21

Math Survey for all!

6th Accelerated (https://sjusd.app.box.com/s/4da00xgz3wfsxk92o874)
This week we will be going deeper into two-step equations by practicing writing and solving them along with doing word problems involving two-step equations.

7th Grade Common Core (https://sjusd.app.box.com/s/fvpzcxpzao0bdhrp86pg)
This week, we will extend our understanding of percent problems by looking at mark up and profit (retail/selling price minus wholesale price) and doing multi-step percent problems that involve at least two categories in the same problem (e.g. tax and tip or discount and tax).  There will be a quiz on Friday.

Monday, January 12, 2015

Week 20

6th Accelerated (https://sjusd.app.box.com/s/4da00xgz3wfsxk92o874)
This week, we will be continuing our study of equations.  On Monday, we will be practicing one-step equation word problems.  On Tuesday through Thursday, we will be learning to solve two-step equations and write two-step equations from a word problem.  Our first quiz of the semester will be on Friday and will cover both one-step and two-step equations.

7th Grade (https://sjusd.app.box.com/s/fvpzcxpzao0bdhrp86pg)
This week, we will continue exploring percents of numbers in the context of commission, tax, and tip.  We will be looking at instances that combine these examples together.  We will also begin using calculators to solve these types of problems and learning what it means to "show your steps" compared to "showing your work."  Our first quiz of the semester will be on Friday and will cover regular percent problems as well as percent problems including commission, tax, and tip.