Week 19 - New Year New Semester

This semester we are kicking off a new unit: Graphs and Functions.  We will start with the coordinate plane, interpreting graphs, and finally scatter plots this week.

Homework for the week is below:

Day/Date	Topic	Homework
Monday (1/7)	No School
Tuesday (1/8)	7-1 Coordinate Plane	WB 7-1 all
Wednesday (1/9)	7-8 Interpreting Graphs	Unit 4 Quiz 1 Practice (due Fri)
Thursday (1/10)	11-4 Scatter Plots
Friday (12/11)	Unit 4 Quiz 1	No HW - Quiz today

Week 17

This week, we will explore more percent applications in commission, sales tax, profit, and simple and compound interest.  We will also look at person-day problems, which are rate problems not covered in the textbook (e.g.  It takes 12 person-hours to paint a house.  If there are 8 people working, how long will the job take?)

Homework for the week is below:

Day/Date	Topic	Homework
Monday (12/10)	6-6 Commission, Sales Tax, Profit	Worksheet (Comm, Sales, Profit)
Tuesday (12/11)	6-7 Simple & Compound Interest
Wednesday (12/12)	Person-Day Problems	Unit 3 Quiz 6 Practice
Thursday (12/13)	Review
Friday (12/14)	Quiz	No HW - Quiz today

Week 16

This week, we will look at applications for percent problems, namely percent increase/decrease, discount, and mark-up.

Day/Date	Topic	Homework
Monday (12/3)	6-5 Percent Increase/Decrease	WB 6-5 #2, 4, 6, 18, 20
Tuesday (12/4)	6-5 Percent Increase/Decrease
Wednesday (12/5)	6-5 Discount & Mark Up	Unit 3 Quiz 5 Practice
Thursday (12/6)	6-5 Discount & Mark Up
Friday (12/7)	Quiz	No HW - Quiz today

Week 15

Pre-Algebra Announcements
This week, we will move into the next portion of our unit: percents!  Also, I will be at a training on Wednesday, so Mr. Ayala (former John Muir teacher with 39 years of experience) will be in my place.

Day/Date	Topic	Homework
Monday (11/26)	6-1 Fractions, Decimals, Percents	Fraction, Decimal, Percent WS (due Wed.)
Tuesday (11/27)	6-3 / 6-4 Finding Percents
Wednesday (11/28)	6-3 / 6-4 Finding Percents	Unit 3 Quiz 4 Practice
Thursday (11/29)	Review
Friday (11/30)	Quiz	No HW - Quiz today

Week 14

Pre-Algebra Announcements
This week, we will look at our final proportions application and quiz on the three different applications: Similar Figures, Indirect Measurement, and Scale Models & Drawings.

Day/Date	Topic	Homework
Monday (11/19)	5-7 Scale Models & Drawings	Unit 3 Quiz 3 Practice (due Tues.)
Tuesday (11/20)	Unit 3 Quiz 3
Wednesday (11/21)	Thanksgiving Graphiti
Thursday (11/22)	No School Thanksgiving
Friday (11/23)	No School Thanksgiving

Week 13

Pre-Algebra Announcements
This week, we will continue with more proportions applications.  Since these topics are more challenging and we have a 4-day week followed by a 3-day week, we will spend two days on each topic with no quiz this week and one quiz next week.

Day/Date	Topic	Homework
Monday (11/12)	No School Veterans Day
Tuesday (11/13)	5-5 Similar Figures	WB 5-5 odds (due Thurs.)
Wednesday (11/14)	5-5 Similar Figures
Thursday (11/15)	5-6 Indirect Measurement	WB 5-6 all (due Mon.)
Friday (11/16)	5-6 Indirect Measurement

Week 12

Pre-Algebra Announcements
This week, we will continue with more proportions applications

Day/Date	Topic	Homework
Monday (11/5)	5-3 Proportions	WB 5-3 #5-14
Tuesday (11/6)	5-3 Proportion Word Problems
Wednesday (11/7)	5-4 Dimensional Analysis	Unit 3 Quiz 2 Practice
Thursday (11/8)	Review
Friday (11/9)	Quiz	No HW - Quiz today