Students began dividing decimals by decimals today in class. Students! Please remember to move the decimals in the divisor enough places to make it a whole number! Then move the decimal in the dividend the same number of places as well! Once that’s done, now you are ready to divide!
Remember to show all your work to receive full credit!!
Homework for tonight will be to complete the classwork we started in class. Students were to complete #1-8 in class and #9-18 for homework. Remember: you MUST show your work to receive full credit!
No homework tonight! Students finished presenting their Collins Writing Activity today in class and I must say I was very impressed with their work!
Enjoy your Monday evening!
In an effort to incorporate writing into our math class, students completed an activity today in class which required them to not only show their proficiency in computing an answer, an additional component to the task was to explain how they arrived at their answer. I encouraged students not to be shy explaining their answers and that the answers did not have to be long and drawn out. I simply want students to explain, step by step, their thinking as they completed the problem.
Students were given an additional word problem to complete as tonight’s homework.
Our first big test will be tomorrow, Friday the 13th! Students reviewed all skills we have covered since the first week of school. Those skills include multiplying multi-digit numbers, long division, place value, rounding, adding & subtracting decimals.
Homework for Thursday night, September 12th………complete Study Guide (front & back) to prepare for tomorrow’s test!
Study Guide for Test HW for 9-12-2013 (front)
Study Guide for Test HW for 9-12-2013 (back)
Blue Team students continued their study of adding & subtracting decimals with a classwork/homework assignment, “Adding & Subtracting Decimals”. Students must show their work, especially how they line up the decimals when setting up the problem.
Adding & Subtracting Decimals HW for 9-11-2013
We will have our first test of the nine weeks this Friday, September 13th. The skills covered on the test include multiplying, long division (including adding a decimal & zero to the dividend), place value, rounding, as well as adding & subtracting decimals. A study guide will be given to students in class tomorrow in order to prepare for the test on Friday!
Adding & Subtracting Decimals
Textbook, pg. 9, #1-12
Students began reviewing the rules for rounding whole numbers and for rounding decimals today in class. Students should have those rules in their math notebook to use for reference. I have also included a copy of the rules below, along with a copy of tonight’s homework.
Rules for Rounding 2013-2014 v2
Practice 5-4 HW for 9-9-2013
PARENTS!!!! Students were given a letter today (printed on red paper) that will allow them to go online and redeem their personal copy of their online textbook. The letter is from our textbook publisher, McGraw-Hill, and it gives very specific instructions on how to complete this process. IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU KEEP TRACK OF YOUR USERNAME & PASSWORD!! I stressed to my students today that I DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO MCGRAW-HILL FILES AND HAVE NO WAY OF RETRIEVING YOUR STUDENT’S USERNAME & PASSWORD IF YOU LOSE IT. There is a Customer Service number on the letter that you will have to contact in order to retrieve your student’s online textbook should you lose your Username & Password.