April 11 - 15, 2011

The students will be grouped to complete a project entitled:  “Entrepreneur.”  This week, they will complete Part 2:  "Being a Boss."   The students will be applying for a grant by completing different tasks to determine whether or not they’re capable of running a business.  The tasks involved will require the students to apply the GPS taught during the year in a real world setting.  This is a fictitious project, meaning the students will not be applying for a real grant or receiving any money or starting an actual business.

HW for 4-11-11:  Research a company that went out of business and tell why that company went out of business.
HW for 4-12-11:  Bring in a business article that deals with employees' salaries.
HW for 4-13-11:  Research a company's profits and losses.
HW for 4-14-11:  Research a company that is doing well financially and tell why you think that it is doing so well.
HW for 4-15-11:  None

April 4 - 8, 2011

The students will be grouped to complete a project entitled:  “Entrepreneur.”  This week, they will complete Part 1:  "You Are Unique."  The students will be applying for a grant by completing different tasks to determine whether or not they’re capable of running a business.  The tasks involved will require the students to apply the GPS taught during the year in a real world setting.  This is a fictitious project, meaning the students will not be applying for a real grant or receiving any money or starting an actual business.

HW for 4-4-11:  Research a company and find out how they decided on a name, slogan, and logo.
HW for 4-5-11:  Bring in a business article that deals with math.
HW for 4-6-11:  Research a company that you would want to work for and write a paragraph telling why you want to work for that company.
HW for 4-7-11:  Research a company that went out of business and tell why that company went out of business.
HW for 4-8-11:  None

March 28 - April 1, 2011

This week we are reviewing for the CRCT through various games, tasks, etc. 
HW for 3-28-11:  Pg. 725-726 # 48-60, 73-90    Pg. 750 # 8-12
HW for 3-29-11:  Pg. 727-728 # 1-43
HW for 3-30-11:  Pg. 729 # 108-114    Pg. 731-732 # 46-56, 102-111    Pg. 750 # 13-18
HW for 3-31-11:  Pg. 733-734 # 1-4, 10-14, 19-20, 28-31    Pg. 735 # 1-12, 21-29
HW for 4-1-11:  NONE

March 21-25, 2011

This week, we are learning how to identify and graph direct and indirect variations, sketch and describe cross sections, construct bisectors,  congruent angles, parallel and perpendicular lines, and line segments, and reviewing proportions.  There will be a quiz on Friday!

Monday HW:  Worktext pg. 190 & 195
Tuesday HW:  Worktext pg. 379
Wednesday HW:  Worktext pg. 300 & 306
Thursday HW:  Georgia Problem Solving Workbook pg. 66
Friday HW:  None

March 14-18, 2011

This week, we are learning how to set up and solve proportions. 
HW 3-14-11:  Worktext pg. 163
HW 3-15-11:  Worktext pg. 177
HW 3-16-11:  Worktext pg. 180
HW 3-17-11:  Worktext pg. 187

Quiz on Friday, 3-18-11!!  Study, study, study!!!

February 28- March 4, 2011

This week we will be learning about the properties of circles and classifying quadrilaterals.  The Benchmark will be administered on Wednesday.  On Friday, the students will take a quiz, therefore, study! 
HW for 3-1-11:  Pg. 482 # 1-4.  HW for 3-3-11:  Pg. 482 # 13-16.

February 14-18, 2011

This week we will be learning how to classify angles, polygons, triangles and angle relationships.  HW for 2-14-11:  GA Problem Solving Workbook pg. 69.  HW for 2-15-11:  Pg. 741 # 17-23.  HW for 2-16-11:  GA Problem Solving Workbook pg. 72.  HW for 2-17-11:  GA Problem Solving Workbook pg. 73.  HW for 2-18-11:  None.  There is a quiz on Friday, so study, study, study vocabulary.

February 7-11, 2011

This week, we will be learning how to recognize, describe, and show transformations.  We will also learn to explore similar figures through dilations.  We are also learning to identify and describe geometric figures.  HW for 2-7-11:  Worktext pg. 288.  HW for 2-8-11:  Pg. 445 # 21-22.  HW for 2-9-11:  Pg. 743 #55.  HW for 2-10-11:  Pg. 741 # 1-6.

January 31-February 4, 2011

1-31-11:  We discussed how to use function tables to generate and graph ordered pairs.  HW:  Worktext pg. 138.
2-1-11:  We discussed how to identify and graph linear equations/functions.  HW:  Worktext pg. 148.
2-2-11:  We discussed how to identify congruent figures and use congruence to solve problems.  HW:  Worktext pg. 282.
2-3-11:  We discussed how to identify symmetry in figures.  HW:  Worktext pg. 293.
2-4-11:  We took a quiz over the concepts learned this week.  HW:  None.

January 27-28, 2011

On January 27th, we learned how to interpret graphs.  HW:  Worktext pg. 131 # 1-4. 
On January 28th, we took a quiz over the concepts learned this week.  HW:  None.

January 26, 2011

Today in class, we practiced graphing through differentiated activities.  HW:  Pg. 259 # 12-13.

January 25, 2011

Today in class, we learned how to identify and graph ordered pairs from a table of values.  HW:  Worktext pgs. 127-128.  TEST on Friday--study, study, study!!!!

January 24, 2011

Today in class, we learned how to identify and plot points on a coordinate plane.  HW:  Worktext pg. 124.

January 18-21, 2011

This week in class, we practiced solving more multi-step equations.  We learned about math properties and how to solve equations with variables on both sides.  HW for 1-19-11:  Pg. 714 # 4-11.  HW for 1-20-11:  Pg. 717 # 1-14.  HW for 1-21-11:  None.

January 13-14, 2011

We learned how to solve multi-step equations in class this week.  HW for 1-13-11: Worktext pg. 416.  HW for 1-14-11:  None.

Tutoring

Tutoring is offered on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays from 3:30PM - 4:00PM in Mrs. Booker's room.  Students need to make arrangements at least one day in advance just in case Mrs. Booker has an appointment, etc.

January 5-7, 2011

This week in class we will be learning how to solve two-step and multi-step equations.  HW for 1-5-11:  Worktext pg. 409.  HW for 1-6-11:  Worktext pg. 416.  HW for 1-7-11:  None.  We will have a test on 1-7-11 over the two concepts from this week.