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Homework for Grade 8 Math with Mrs. Tannuzzo
Goals for Februay
Students will be able to calculate perimeter, area of squares, rectangles, circles and surface area and volume of prisms
2/6 Monday Mcas problem 31/32.
Students should also work on study
island, 8th grade, 2012 assessment, 10 questions for each category of
the measurement section due at end of class on Friday
Test corrections and parent signature on test.
2/7 Tuesday Mcas problems 33/34 vocab words
2/8 Wednesday Mcas problems 35/36
2/9 Thursday Mcas problems 37/38
2/10 Friday Mcas problems 39/40 Quiz
Goals for January
Students will know how to determine and calculate experimental/theoretical probability.
They will be able to interpret strip graphs, frequency graphs, circle graphs and outcome grids. Students will be able to determine if a game is fair or unfair and be able to change a game to make it fair. They will use outcome grids and tree diagrams to accomplish this goal.
2/3 Friday Mcas problem 30 Probability Test
2/2 Thursday Mcas problems 28/29
2/1 Wednesday Mcas problem 26/27
1/30 Monday Mcas problem 22/23. Students should also work on study
island, 8th grade, 2012 assessment, 20 questions for Section 7
Probability and Statistics, both sections
1/31 Tuesday Mcas problems 24/25 vocab words Students should also work on study
island, 8th grade, 2012 assessment
1/23 Monday Mcas problem 11/12. Students should also work on study
island, 8th grade, 2012 assessment, 20 questions for Section 7
Probability and Statistics, both sections
1/24 Tuesday Mcas problems 13/14 vocab words Students should also work on study
island, 8th grade, 2012 assessment
1/25 Wednesday Mcas problems 16/17 Students should also work on study
island, 8th grade, 2012 assessment
1/26 Thursday Mcas problems 18/19 Students should also work on study
island, 8th grade, 2012 assessment
1/27 Friday Mcas problems 20/21 Students should also work on study
island, 8th grade, 2012 assessment
1/9 Monday Mcas problem 53/54. Students should also work on study
island, 8th grade, 2012 assessment, 10 questions for Number Sense
Section part E
1/10 Tuesday Mcas problems 55/56 vocab words Students should also work on study
island, 8th grade, 2012 assessment, 10 questions for Number Sense
Section part F
1/11 Wednesday Mcas problems 57/58 Students should also work on study
island, 8th grade, 2012 assessment, 10 questions for Number Sense
Section part G
1/12 Thursday Mcas problems 1-3 Students should also work on study
island, 8th grade, 2012 assessment, 10 questions for Number Sense
Section part H
1/13 Friday Mcas problems 4/5 Students should also work on study
island, 8th grade, 2012 assessment, 10 questions for Number Sense
Section part I
1/2 Monday Holiday
1/3 Tuesday Mcas problems 45/46 vocab words Students should also work on study
island, 8th grade, 2012 assessment, 10 questions for Number Sense
Section part A
1/4 Wednesday Mcas problems 47/48 Students should also work on study
island, 8th grade, 2012 assessment, 10 questions for Number Sense
Section part B
1/5 Thursday Mcas problems 49/50 Students should also work on study
island, 8th grade, 2012 assessment, 10 questions for Number Sense
Section part C
1/6 Friday Mcas problems 51/52 Students should also work on study
island, 8th grade, 2012 assessment, 10 questions for Number Sense
Section part D
2011
Goals students will be able to create their own percent problems that apply to real life situations
December 19th through December 23rd
This week student need to complete the study island, 7th grade, 2012 assessment for numbers sense, a through g with, 20 questions on each letter with a passing or advance grade. They also will need to complete any classwork they do not finish in school.
Goals - Students will understand that proportions are equal fractions and recognize when they can manipulate those fractions to solve a proportion without cross multiplying and solving for X. Study Island problems will give students more practice for Mcas testing.
12/5 Monday Mcas problems 24/25 and vocab word Increase look up book
definition and use in a sentence Students should also work on study
island, 7th grade, 2012 assessment, 20 questions for Number Sense
Section part A with a passing or advanced grade. This is due by Friday.
12/6 Tuesday Mcas problems 26/27 vocab words Expression look up book
definition and use in a sentence
12/7 Wednesday Mcas problems 28/29 vocab words prime factorization look up book definition and use in a sentence
12/8 Thursday Mcas problems 30/31 vocab words decimal notation look up book definition and use in a sentence
12/9 Friday Mcas problems 32/33 vocab words irrational number look up book definition and use in a sentence.
Quiz on book II
Goals - Students will understand that proportions are equal fractions.
11/28 Monday Mcas problems 14/15 and vocab word proportion look up book
definition and use in a sentence
11/29 Tuesday Mcas problems 16/17 vocab words multiple look up book
definition and use in a sentence
11/30 Wednesday Mcas problems 18/19 vocab words conversion factor look up book definition and use in a sentence
12/1 Thursday Mcas problems 20/21 vocab words average look up book definition and use in a sentence
12/2 Friday Mcas problems 22/23 vocab words biased sample look up book definition and use in a sentence
Goals - Students will be reintroduced to percent concepts, percent means per hundred.
11/21 Monday Mcas problems 8/9 and vocab word difference look up book
definition and use in a sentence
11/22 Tuesday Mcas problems 10/11 vocab words estimate look up book
definition and use in a sentence
11/23 Wednesday Mcas problems 12/13 vocab words ray look up book definition and use in a sentence
11/24 Thursday Thanksgiving Day Holiday
11/25 Friday Thanksgiving Day Holiday
Goal 1 for the week, students will understand why square roots are never negative, they will be able find square roots of perfect squares, including fraction and know how to estimate square roots of irrational numbers, the will also be able order a square root in a list of numbers.
Goal 2 Students will be able to use the distributive property to simplify algebraic expressions and the combine like terms.
Goal 3 Students will be able solve PEMDAS questions that include nested parenthesis
11/14 Monday Mcas problems 44/45 and vocab word perfect square look up book
definition and use in a sentence
11/15 Tuesday Mcas problems 46/2 vocab words pythagorean theorem look up book
definition and use in a sentence
11/16 Wednesday Mcas problems 1/3 Vocab word irrational number look up book
definition and use in a sentence
11/17 Thursday Mcas problems 4/5 Vocab word Equivalent look up book
definition and use in a sentence Mcas
11/18 Friday Mcas problems 6/7 Vocab word Inequalities look up book
definition and use in a sentence
Goals for the week: Students learn more advanced forms of exponents and scientific notation. For example we will review negative exponents and why 7 to the power of 0 is equal to 1
11/7 Monday Mcas problems 37/38 and vocab word Percents look up book
definition and use in a sentence
11/8 Tuesday Mcas problems 39/40 vocab words exponent, base, power look up book
definition and use in a sentence
11/2 Wednesday Mcas problems 41/42 Vocab word negative exponent look up book
definition and use in a sentence
11/3 Thursday Mcas problems 43/44 Vocab word scientific notation look up book
definition and use in a sentence
11/4 Friday Holiday
Goals for the week: We will review absolute value, all operations using intergers and the distributive property.
10/31 Monday Happy Halloween
11/1 Tuesday Dailey problems, this is a homework and quiz grade, this was received on Monday 10/31
11/2 Wednesday Mcas problems 31/32 Vocab word Integer look up book
definition and use in a sentence
11/3 Thursday Mcas problems 33/34 Vocab word Opposites look up book
definition and use in a sentence
11/4 Friday Mcas problems 35/36 Vocab words frequency graph look up book
definition and use in a sentence
Quiz on integers, absolute value, vocab words and the distributive property.
Grades close for term I
Goals: Students will be able to add/subtract and multiply/divide mixed fractions
10/24 Monday Mcas questions 21 and 22, Vocab word Mode look up book definition and
use in a sentence
10/25 Tuesday Mcas problems 23/24 Vocab word Median look up book definition
and use in a sentence
10/26 Wednesday Mcas problems 25/26 Vocab word stem and leaf plot look up book
definition and use in a sentence
10/27 Thursday Mcas problems 27/28 Vocab word range look up book
definition and use in a sentence
10/28 Friday Mcas problems 29/30 Vocab words scatter plot look up book
definition and use in a sentence
Quiz: Mcas problem # 30 will be counted as a quiz grade
Test: Mixed fractions, adding/subtracting and multiplying/dividing
Goals: Students will be able to add/subtract fractions with like and unlike denominators.
10/17 Monday Go to Google and type in KahnAcademy and the adding fractions with unlike denominators, listen to the video and do 2 practice questions.
Mcas questions 9 and 11, Vocab word LCD look up book definition and
use in a sentence
10/18 Tuesday Mcas problems 12/13 Vocab word Multiples look up book definition
and use in a sentence
10/19 Wednesday Mcas problems 14/16 Vocab word improper fractions look up book
definition and use in a sentence
10/20 Thursday Mcas problems 17/18 Vocab word mean look up book
definition and use in a sentence
10/21 Friday Mcas problems 19/20 Vocab words primes and factor trees look up book
definition and use in a sentence
Homework for October (Homeworks have the assigned date in the right hand corner)
10/10 Monday Holiday
10/11 Tuesday Mcas problems 1 page, questions 1,2 plus KahnAcademy video and two questions. Select Division 4 category
10/12 Wednesday Mcas problems 1 page, questions 3 and 4
10/13 Thursday Mcas problems 1 page, questions 5 and 6
10/14 Friday Mcas problems 1 page, questions 7 and 8 Fraction Quiz
10/3 Mon Mcas problems 1 page Test on long division and notes
10/4 Tues Mcas problems 1 page
10/5 Wed Mcas problems 1 page
10/6 Thurs Mcas problems 1 page
10/7 Friday Mcas problems 1 page Fraction Quiz
Homework for September (Homeworks have the assigned date in the right hand corner)
Objectives: Students will understand when and how to use long division with and without decimals. They know the parts of a division problem. The will be able to divide to the hundreths place value. They will be able to site real life examples where they might want to use division.
9/26 Mon Mcas problems 1 page
9/27 Tues Mcas problems 1 page
9/28 Wed Mcas problems 1 page
9/29 Thurs Mcas problems 1 page
9/30 Friday Mcas problems 1 page Test on long division and notes Monday
Objectives: Students will understand when and how to use short division with and without decimals. They know the parts of a division problem. The will be able to divide to the hundreths place value. They will be able to site real life examples where they might want to use division.
9/19 Mon Mcas problems 1 page
9/20 Tues Mcas problems 1 page
9/21 Wed Mcas problems 1 page
9/22 Thurs Mcas problems 1 page
9/23 Friday Mcas problems 1 page Test on short division and notes
Objective: Students will receive a review of their two's through nine tables and multiplying with and without decimals. They will understand how the standard multiplication algorithm works.
9/12 Mon Mcas problems 1 page, flash cards if needed
9/13 Tues Mcas problems 1 page
9/14 Wed Mcas problems 1 page
9/15 Thurs Mcas problems 1 page
9/16 Friday Mcas problems 1 page
Objective: Students will receive a review of adding/subtracting with and without decimals and know the rules for adding/subtracting decimals.
9/5 Mon Mcas problems 1 page
9/6 Tues Mcas problems 1 page
9/7 Wed Mcas problems 1 page
9/8 Thurs Mcas problems 1 page
9/9 Friday Mcas problems 1 page
Homework for Agust 30, 31st
Objectives: Students will learn classroom procedures and HW work format (T-format) required to be successful in the class.
Tues 30th Read/study classroom procedure document for quiz tomorrow
Bring in binder/signed parent letter/supplies
Wednesday Complete mcas questions in T format
Thursday Complete mcas questions in T format
Friday No School
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